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Pseudorelativistic Dirac quasiparticles have emerged in a plethora of artificial graphene systems that mimic the underlying honeycomb symmetry of graphene. However, it is notoriously difficult to manipulate their properties without…

We demonstrate a generic mechanism to realize topological flat minibands by confining massive Dirac fermions in a periodic moir\'e potential, which can be achieved in a heterobilayer of transition metal dichalcogenides. We show that the…

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We consider the effects of weak quenched fermionic disorder on the quantum-phase transition between the Dirac semimetal and charge density wave (CDW) insulator in two spatial dimensions. The symmetry breaking transition is described by the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-25 Mikolaj D. Uryszek , Frank Krüger

We present a theory describing the superconducting (SC) interaction of Dirac electrons in a quasi-two-dimensional system consisting of a stack of N planes. The occurrence of a SC phase is investigated both at T=0 and T\neq 0, in the case of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-05 E. C. Marino , Lizardo H. C. M. Nunes

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

We report quasi-two-dimensional Dirac fermions and quantum magnetoresistance in LaAgBi$_2$. The band structure shows several narrow bands with nearly linear energy dispersion and Dirac-cone-like points at the Fermi level. The quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-14 Kefeng Wang , D. Graf , C. Petrovic

Condensed matter systems in low dimensions exhibit emergent physics that does not exist in three dimensions. When electrons are confined to one dimension (1D), some significant electronic states appear, such as charge density wave,…

Dirac materials, hosting linearly dispersing quasiparticles at low energies, exhibit an emergent Lorentz symmetry close to a quantum critical point (QCP) separating semimetallic state from a strongly-coupled gapped insulator or…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-16 Sergio Pino-Alarcón , Vladimir Juričić

The discovery of two-dimensional gapless Dirac fermions in graphene and topological insulators (TI) has sparked extensive ongoing research toward applications of their unique electronic properties. The gapless surface states in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-15 Minjin Kim , Jihwan Kim , Yasen Hou , Dong Yu , Yong-Joo Doh , Bongsoo Kim , Kun Woo Kim , Junho Suh

For electron optics in graphene, the propagation effect has so far been the only physical mechanism available. The resulting electron-optics-based components are large in size and operate at low temperatures to avoid violating the ballistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Ruihuang Zhao , Pengcheng Wan , Ling Zhou , Di Huang , Haiqin Guo , Hao Xia , Junjie Du

We study the Fermi level structure of (2+1)-dimensional strongly interacting electron systems in external magnetic field using the AdS/CFT correspondence. The gravity dual of a finite density fermion system is a Dirac field in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 E. Gubankova , J. Brill , M. Cubrovic , K. Schalm , P. Schijven , J. Zaanen

We show the existence of massive Dirac fermions in electronic band structures of a few Fe atomic layers with perpendicular magnetization. Based on a tight binding model fitted to ab-initio band structure, we observe four distinct massive…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-24 Xiao-Tian Zhang , Baolong Xu , Kohji Nakamura , Ryuichi Shindou

A strongly interacting plasma of linearly dispersing electron and hole excitations in two spatial dimensions (2D), also known as a Dirac fluid, can be captured by relativistic hydrodynamics and shares many universal features with other…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-19 Yan-Qi Wang , Roman Rausch , Christoph Karrasch , Joel E. Moore

Non-Hermitian band descriptions capture how loss, gain, and environmental coupling reshape quantum matter, yet most experimental tests rely on wave-based or dynamical probes. Here we establish a new equilibrium route to exceptional physics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Juan Pablo Esparza , Francisco J. Peña , Patricio Vargas , Vladimir Juričić

Topological semimetals, representing a new topological phase that lacks a full bandgap in bulk states and exhibiting nontrivial topological orders, recently have been extended to photonic systems, predominantly in photonic crystals and to a…

Three-dimensional (3D) topological Dirac semimetal, when thinned down to 2D few layers, is expected to possess gapped Dirac nodes via quantum confinement effect and concomitantly display the intriguing quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulator…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-15 Huinan Xia , Yang Li , Min Cai , Le Qin , Nianlong Zou , Lang Peng , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu , Wenhao Zhang , Ying-Shuang Fu

The metal-insulator transition has been a subject of intense research since Nevil Mott has first proposed that the metallic behavior of interacting electrons could turn to the insulating one as electron correlations increase. Here, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-23 Yuichi Otsuka , Seiji Yunoki , Sandro Sorella

Renormalization is one of the basic notions of condensed matter physics. Based on the concept of renormalization, the Landau's {\em Fermi liquid} theory has been able to explain, why despite the presence of Coulomb interactions, the free…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-05-06 S. A. Jafari

Lorentz symmetry appears as a quite robust feature of the strongly interacting Dirac materials even though the lattice interactions break such a symmetry. We here demonstrate that the Lorentz symmetry is restored at the quantum-critical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-02-29 Pablo Reiser , Vladimir Juricic

Topological insulators (TIs) are a unique class of materials characterized by a surface (edge) Dirac cone state of helical Dirac fermions in the middle of bulk (surface) gap. When the thickness (width) of TIs is reduced, however,…

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