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Geometrical model for material Dirac wave field and for Maxwell electromagnetic field is suggested where above fields are considered as propagating regions of the space itself with distorted euclidean geometry. It is shown that equations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-11 Oleg A. Olkhov

Wave dynamics in topological materials has been widely studied recently. A striking feature is the existence of robust and chiral wave propagations that have potential applications in many fields. A common way to realize such wave patterns…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-09-26 Pipi Hu , Liu Hong , Yi Zhu

High-order topological charge is of intensive interest in the field of topological matters. In real materials, cubic Dirac point is rare and the chiral charge of one Weyl point (WP) has never be found to exceed |C| = 3 for spin- 1/2…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-04 Peng-Jen Chen , Wan-Ju Li , Ting-Kuo Lee

This paper offers a geometric framework for modeling port-Hamiltonian systems on discrete manifolds. The simplicial Dirac structure, capturing the topological laws of the system, is defined in terms of primal and dual cochains related by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-01-30 Marko Seslija , Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen , Arjan van der Schaft

A hallmark feature of topological physics is the presence of one-way propagating chiral modes at the system boundary. The chirality of edge modes is a consequence of the topological character of the bulk. For example, in a non-interacting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-02 Sunil Mittal , Sriram Ganeshan , Jingyun Fan , Abolhassan Vaezi , Mohammad Hafezi

Recent theories and experiments have suggested that strong spin-orbit coupling effects in certain band insulators can give rise to a new phase of quantum matter, the so-called topological insulator, which can show macroscopic entanglement…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-26 Y. Xia , D. Qian , D. Hsieh , L. Wray , A. Pal , H. Lin , A. Bansil , D. Grauer , Y. S. Hor , R. J. Cava , M. Z. Hasan

Although the richness of spatial symmetries has led to a rapidly expanding inventory of possible topological crystalline (TC) phases of electrons, physical realizations have been slow to materialize due to the practical difficulty to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-14 Feng Tang , Hoi Chun Po , Ashvin Vishwanath , Xiangang Wan

Topological phases and materials have attracted much attention in recent years. Though many progress has been made, the effect of nonlinearity on such system remains untouched. In this paper, by considering the mean-field approximation in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 Fude Li , X. X. Yi

Dirac cones (DCs) play a pivotal role in various unique phenomena ranging from massless electrons in graphene to robust surface states in topological insulators (TIs). Recent studies have theoretically revealed a full Dirac hierarchy…

A single Dirac cone on the surface is the hallmark of three-dimensional (3D) topological insulators, where the double degeneracy at the Dirac point is protected by time-reversal symmetry and the spin-splitting away from the point is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-05 Ling Lu , Chen Fang , Liang Fu , Steven G. Johnson , John D. Joannopoulos , Marin Soljačić

Consider the Schr\"{o}dinger operator $H = -\Delta + V$, where the potential $V$ is real, $\mathbb{Z}^2$-periodic, and additionally invariant under the symmetry group of the square. We show that, under typical small linear deformations of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-10-16 Jonah Chaban , Michael I. Weinstein

We highlight the fact that two-dimensional materials with Dirac-like low energy band structures and spin-orbit coupling will produce linearly dispersing topologically protected Jackiw-Rebbi modes at interfaces where the Dirac mass changes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-11 D. S. L. Abergel , Jonathan M. Edge , Alexander V. Balatsky

We show that a wide class of quantum systems with translational invariance can host dispersionless, soliton-like, wave packets. We focus on the setting where the effective, two-dimensional Hamiltonian acquires the form of the Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-13 Vit Jakubsky , Matej Tusek

Plasmon opens up the possibility to efficiently couple light and matter at sub-wavelength scales. In general, the plasmon frequency is dependent of carrier density. This dependency, however, renders fundamentally a weak plasmon intensity at…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-20 Jianfeng Wang , Xuelei Sui , Shiwu Gao , Wenhui Duan , Feng Liu , Bing Huang

The recent discovery of methods to isolate graphene, a one-atom-thick layer of crystalline carbon, has raised the possibility of a new class of nano-electronics devices based on the extraordinary electrical transport and unusual physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-02 Xu Du , Ivan Skachko , Anthony Barker , Eva Y. Andrei

We explore a two-dimensional Hubbard model adapted to host altermagnetic states. Utilizing Hartree-Fock (HF) and dynamical mean field theory (DMFT), we uncover that the magnetic solutions of this model feature Dirac points in their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-30 Lorenzo Del Re

We numerically verify and analytically prove a winding number invariant that correctly predicts the number of edge states in one-dimensional, nearest-neighbor (between unit cells), two-band models with any complex couplings and open…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-28 Janet Zhong , Heming Wang , Alexander N Poddubny , Shanhui Fan

Many systems are topologically trivial in the bulk, but still have non-trivial wavefunctions locally in the Brillouin zone. For example, in a small-gap Dirac material the Berry curvature is strongly peaked, but cancels over the full…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-10 Lena Engström , Pascal Simon , Andrej Mesaros

We study the propagation of in-plane elastic waves in a soft thin strip; a specific geometrical and mechanical hybrid framework which we expect to exhibit Dirac-like cone. We separate the low frequencies guided modes (typically 100 Hz for a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-30 Maxime Lanoy , Fabrice Lemoult , Antonin Eddi , Claire Prada

The time evolution of a wave packet is a tool to detect topological phase transitions in two-dimensional Dirac materials, such as graphene and silicene. Here we extend the analysis to HgTe/CdTe quantum wells and study the evolution of their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 A. Mayorgas , M. Calixto , N. A. Cordero , E. Romera , O. Castaños