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We show that Hamiltonians with Weyl points can be realized for ultracold atoms using laser-assisted tunneling in three-dimensional optical lattices. Weyl points are synthetic magnetic monopoles that exhibit a robust, three-dimensional…

We study black and white hole analogues in Weyl semimetals with inhomogenous nodal tilts. We study how the presence of a microscopic lattice, giving rise to low-energy fermion doubler states at large momenta that are not present for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-02 Daniel Sabsovich , Paul Wunderlich , Victor Fleurov , Dmitry I. Pikulin , Roni Ilan , Tobias Meng

We report three manifestly Lorentz-invariant Hamiltonian formulations of minimally and nonminimally coupled fermion fields to the Holst action. These formulations are achieved by making a suitable parametrization of both the tetrad and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-18 Jorge Romero , Merced Montesinos , Mariano Celada

While it has been pointed out that the chiral symmetry, which is important for the Dirac fermions in graphene, can be generalized to tilted Dirac fermions as in organic metals, such a generalized symmetry was so far defined only for a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 T. Kawarabayashi , H. Aoki , Y. Hatsugai

In this article, we extend our study on a new class of modular Hamiltonians on an interval attached to the origin on the semi-infinite line, introduced in a recent work dedicated to scalar fields. Here, we shift our attention to fermions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-19 Marina Huerta , Guido van der Velde

The overlap approach to chiral gauge theories on arbitrary $D$--dimensional lattices is studied. The doubling problem and its relation to chiral anomalies for $D=2$ and 4 is examined. In each case it is shown that the doublers can be…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-08-31 S. Randjbar-Daemi , J. Strathdee

We study the relation between boundary conditions and categorical symmetries of two-dimensional fermionic conformal field theories. We determine all anomaly-free invertible global symmetries of two free complex Weyl fermions, which take the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-15 Guillermo Arias-Tamargo , Philip Boyle Smith , Rishi Mouland , Maxwell L. Velásquez Cotini Hutt

We consider the fermion spectrum in the strong coupling vortex phase of a lattice fermion-scalar model with a global $U(1)_L\times U(1)_R$, in 2D, in the context of a recently proposed two-cutoff lattice formulation. The fermion doublers…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-03-19 P. Hernandez , Ph. Boucaud

Minimally doubled fermions have been proposed as a strictly local discretization of the QCD quark action, which also preserves chiral symmetry at finite cut-off. We study the renormalization and mixing properties of two particular…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-01-27 Stefano Capitani , Michael Creutz , Johannes Weber , Hartmut Wittig

We propose two complementary design principles for engineering three-dimensional (3D) Weyl semimetals and superconductors in a layer-by-layer setup which includes even and odd parity orbitals in alternating layers - dubbed orbital selective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-31 Tanmoy Das

Recently, two solutions have been proposed to the long standing problem of $\mathcal{CP}$-symmetry on the lattice, which is particularly evident when considering the construction of chiral gauge theories. The first, based on a lattice…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-01-26 Nigel Cundy

We propose a method to control the number of species of lattice fermions which yields new classes of minimally doubled lattice fermions. We show it is possible to control the number of species by handling $O(a)$ Wilson-term-like corrections…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-10-12 Michael Creutz , Tatsuhiro Misumi

Far-from-equilibrium dynamics of SU(2) gauge theory with Wilson fermions is studied in 1+1 space-time dimensions using a real-time lattice approach. Lattice improved Hamiltonians are shown to be very efficient in simulating Schwinger pair…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-05 D. Spitz , J. Berges

The Dirac Hamiltonian formalism is applied to a system in $(2+1)$-dimensions consisting of a Dirac field $\psi$ minimally coupled to Chern-Simons $U(1)$ and $SO(2,1)$ connections, $A$ and $\omega$, respectively. This theory is connected to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-22 Alfredo Guevara , Pablo Pais , Jorge Zanelli

We discover three-dimensional intertwined Weyl phases, by developing a theory to create topological phases. The theory is based on intertwining existing topological gapped and gapless phases protected by the same crystalline symmetry. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 W. B. Rui , Zhen Zheng , Moritz M. Hirschmann , Song-Bo Zhang , Chenjie Wang , Z. D. Wang

Weyl fermions are massless chiral quasiparticles existing in materials known as Weyl semimetals. Topological surface states, associated with the unusual electronic structure in the Weyl semimetals, have been recently demonstrated in linear…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-18 Ce Shang , Yuanlin Zheng , Boris A. Malomed

Domain wall fermions use a $2n$-dimensional spacetime defect embedded in $(2n+1)$-dimensional spacetime to realize massless lattice Dirac fermions. Recent work has extended this idea to realize a single unpaired Weyl fermion in a finite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-06 Jonathan D. Kroth , Srimoyee Sen

Fermions in nature come in several types: Dirac, Majorana and Weyl are theoretically thought to form a complete list. Even though Majorana and Weyl fermions have for decades remained experimentally elusive, condensed matter has recently…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-01 Alexey A. Soluyanov , Dominik Gresch , Zhijun Wang , QuanSheng Wu , Matthias Troyer , Xi Dai , B. Andrei Bernevig

We consider a one-dimensional optical lattice of three-dimensional Harmonic Oscillators which are loaded with neutral fermionic atoms trapped into two hyperfine states. By means of a standard variational coherent-state procedure, we derive…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 F. P. Massel , V. Penna

We present a systematic derivation of effective lattice spin Hamiltonians derived from a rotationally invariant multi-orbital Hubbard model including a term ensuring Hund's rule coupling. The Hamiltonians are derived down-folding the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Markus Hoffmann , Stefan Blügel