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The massless Dirac electrons found at topological insulator surfaces are thought to be influenced very little by weak, non-magnetic disorder. However, a resonance effect of strongly perturbing non-magnetic impurities has been theoretically…

Antiferromagnetic (AF) topological materials offer a fertile ground to explore a variety of quantum phenomena such as axion magnetoelectric dynamics and chiral Majorana fermions. To realize such intriguing states, it is essential to…

We propose a new concept of two-dimensional (2D) Dirac semiconductor which is characterized by the emergence of fourfold degenerate band crossings near the band edge and provide a generic approach to realize this novel semiconductor in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-02 Botao Fu , Chao He , Da-Shuai Ma , Zhi-Ming Yu , Yong-Hong Zhao , Yugui Yao

Topological insulators in the presence of strong Coulomb interaction constitute novel phases of matter. Transitions between these phases can be driven by single-particle or many-body effects. On the basis of {\it ab-initio} calculations, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-01-06 Gang Li , Werner Hanke , Giorgio Sangiovanni , Björn Trauzettel

Spin-spin correlation function response in the low electronic density regime and externally applied electric field is evaluated for 2D metallic crystals under Rashba-type coupling, fixed number of particles and two-fold energy band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-06 H. Vivas

Based on the Dirac equations in the two-dimensional $\pi-$ flux model, we study the interaction effects both in nontrivial gapped and gapless Dirac equations with numerical exact diagonalization method. In the presence of the nearest and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-15 Yongfei Jia , Huaiming Guo , Ziyu Chen , Shun-Qing Shen , Shiping Feng

We examined the piezomagnetic effect in an antiferromagnet composed of MnTe, which is a candidate material for altermagnetism with a high critical temperature. We observed that the magnetization develops with the application of stress and…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-02 Takuya Aoyama , Kenya Ohgushi

We develop an approximate theory of phonon-induced topological insulation in Dirac materials. In the weak coupling regime, long wavelength phonons may favor topological phases in Dirac insulators with direct and narrow bandgaps. This…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-09 Kush Saha , Ion Garate

The interlayer magnetoresistance of a quasi-two-dimensional layered metal with a d-wave pseudogap is calculated semiclassically. An expression for the interlayer resistivity as a function of the strength and direction of the magnetic field,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-06-08 M. F. Smith , Ross H. McKenzie

Three-dimensional topological insulators are characterized by insulating bulk state and metallic surface state involving Dirac fermions that behave as massless relativistic particles. These Dirac fermions are responsible for achieving a…

The emergence of altermagnets establishes a new paradigm for multiferroics. Unlike conventional multiferroics relying on direct magnetoelectric coupling, multiferroic altermagnets host a crystal-symmetry-mediated magnetoelectric interaction…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-12 Zhou Cui , Ziye Zhu , Xunkai Duan , Bowen Hao , Xianzhang Chen , Jiayong Zhang , Tong Zhou

We present the successful realization of four-dimensional (4D) semimetal bands featuring tensor monopoles, achieved using superconducting quantum circuits. Our experiment involves the creation of a highly tunable diamond energy diagram with…

Altermagnets represent a novel category of magnetic materials characterized by zero net magnetization yet featuring spin-split band structures, and they demonstrate distinctive orbital-spin locking phenomena. Commencing from the minimal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Shihao Zhang

This paper presents a theory of interaction-induced band-flattening in strongly correlated electron systems. We begin by illustrating an inherent connection between flat bands and index theorems, and presenting a generic prescription for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-18 Alireza Parhizkar , Victor Galitski

Altermagnetism combines fully compensated magnetic order with a magnetic symmetry that relates inequivalent spin sublattices, offering a promising, still underexplored platform for unconventional topological phases. Here we show that both…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-23 Sumohan Giri , Nirmal Ganguli

We study the planar magnetic textures in an insulating magnetic film coupled to the Dirac surface state of a topological insulator. It is shown that the radial vortex with winding number $w=\pm1$ leads to the confinement of Dirac states,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Zhaochen Liu , Jing Wang , Congjun Wu

Surfaces of topological insulators host a new class of states with Dirac dispersion and helical spin texture. Potential quantum computing and spintronic applications using these states require manipulation of their electronic properties at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Haim Beidenkopf , Pedram Roushan , Jungpil Seo , Lindsay Gorman , Ilya Drozdov , Yew San Hor , R. J. Cava , Ali Yazdani

The Dirac electrons occupying the surface states (SSs) of topological insulators (TIs) have been predicted to exhibit many exciting magneto-transport phenomena. Here we report on the first experimental observation of an unconventional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-07 David Rakhmilevich , Fei Wang , Weiwei Zhao , Moses H. W. Chan , Jagadeesh S. Moodera , Chaoxing Liu , Cui-Zu Chang

A three-dimensional topological insulator manifests gapless surface modes, described by two-dimensional Dirac equation. We study magnetic textures, such as domain walls and vortices, in a ferromagnetic thin film deposited on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-21 Kentaro Nomura , Naoto Nagaosa

Lattice deformations act on the low-energy excitations of Dirac materials as effective axial vector fields. This allows to directly detect quantum anomalies of Dirac materials via the response to axial gauge fields. We investigate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-04 Taiki Matsushita , Satoshi Fujimoto , Andreas P. Schnyder