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`Strange' metals that do not follow the predictions of Fermi liquid theory are prevalent in materials that feature superconductivity arising from electron interactions. In recent years, it has been hypothesized that spatial randomness in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-15 Aavishkar A. Patel , Peter Lunts , Michael S. Albergo

Dirac semimetal is a phase of matter, whose elementary excitation is described by the relativistic Dirac equation. In the limit of zero mass, its parity-time symmetry enforces the Dirac fermion in the momentum space, which is composed of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-04 Pengfei Liu , Ao Zhang , Jingzhi Han , Qihang Liu

We present a microscopic theory of skyrmions in the monolayer quantum Hall ferromagnet. It is a peculiar feature of the system that the number density and the spin density are entangled intrinsically as dictated by the W$%_{\infty}$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Tsitsishvili , Z. F. Ezawa

We consider the two-dimensional chiral metal, which exists at the surface of a layered, three-dimensional sample exhibiting the integer quantum Hall effect. We calculate its magnetoresistance in response to a component of magnetic field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-05 J. T. Chalker , S. L. Sondhi

Discoveries of ordered quantum states of matter are of great fundamental interest, and often lead to unique applications. The most well known example -- superconductivity -- is caused by the formation and condensation of pairs of electrons.…

We use a superspin Hamiltonian defined on an infinite-dimensional Fock space with positive definite scalar product to study localization and delocalization of noninteracting spinless quasiparticles in quasi-one-dimensional quantum wires…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-02 Andreas P. Schnyder , Christopher Mudry , Ilya A. Gruzberg

We explore the physics of a spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain with Kondo interaction, $J_k$, to a two-dimensional electron gas. At weak $J_k$ the problem maps onto a Heisenberg chain locally coupled to a dissipative Ohmic bath. At the decoupled…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-24 Bimla Danu , Matthias Vojta , Tarun Grover , Fakher F. Assaad

Electron transport phenomena in disordered electron systems with spin-orbit coupling in two dimensions and below are studied numerically. The scaling hypothesis is checked by analyzing the scaling of the quasi-1D localization length. A…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yoichi Asada , Keith Slevin , Tomi Ohtsuki

We proposed a theory of quantum anomalous Hall effect in a flat-band ferromagnet on a two-dimensional (2D) decorated lattice with spin-orbit coupling. Free electrons on the lattice have dispersionless flat bands, and the ground state is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-28 An Zhao , Shun-Qing Shen

Photoinduced nonequilibrium spin structure is examined in the double-exchange model, in which itinerant electrons couple with localized spins through the ferromagnetic Hund coupling. In particular, we focus on the transient spin structure…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-03 Atsushi Ono , Sumio Ishihara

Chirality, an intrinsic handedness, is one of the most intriguing fundamental phenomena in nature. Materials composed of chiral molecules find broad applications in areas ranging from nonlinear optics and spintronics to biology and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-09 Yu. Tikhonov , S. Kondovych , J. Mangeri , M. Pavlenko , L. Baudry , A. Sené , A. Galda , S. Nakhmanson , O. Heinonen , A. Razumnaya , I. Luk'yanchuk , V. M. Vinokur

The interplay of interactions and disorder in two-dimensional (2D) electron systems has actively been studied for decades. The paradigmatic approach involves starting with a clean Fermi liquid and perturbing the system with both disorder…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-29 P. A. Nosov , I. S. Burmistrov , S. Raghu

The distinguishing feature of the quantum Hall ferromagnet is the identity between the electrical and topological charge densities of a spin distortion. In addition to the wealth of physics associated with Skyrmionic excitations of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. G. Green

This work treats the effects of disorder and interactions in a quantum Hall ferromagnet, which is realized in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in a perpendicular magnetic field at Landau level filling factor equal one. We study the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 D. Makogon , A. Alamir , C. Morais Smith

Chiral anomaly is a very fundamental aspect of quantum theories with chiral fermion, from the Standard Model to supersymmetric field theories or even string theories. How such microscopic anomaly manifests itself in a macroscopic many-body…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-22 Jinfeng Liao

Metallic phases have been observed in several disordered two dimensional (2d) systems, including thin films near superconductor-insulator transitions and quantum Hall systems near plateau transitions. The existence of 2d metallic phases at…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-05 Pallab Goswami , Hart Goldman , Srinivas Raghu

The spin-dependent band structure of CoS$_2$ which is a candidate for a half-metallic ferromagnet was investigated by both spin- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and theoretical calculations, in order to reappraise the…

We analyze the scaling behavior at and near a quantum critical point separating a semimetallic from a superfluid phase. To this end we compute the renormalization group flow for a model of attractively interacting electrons with a linear…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-11-08 Benjamin Obert , So Takei , Walter Metzner

The relation between crystal symmetries, electron correlations, and electronic structure steers the formation of a large array of unconventional phases of matter, including magneto-electric loop currents and chiral magnetism. Detection of…

Quantum materials governed by emergent topological fermions have become a cornerstone of physics. Dirac fermions in graphene form the basis for moir\'e quantum matter, and Dirac fermions in magnetic topological insulators enabled the…