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In a chiral superconductor with broken time-reversal symmetry a ``spontaneous Hall effect'' may be observed. We analyze this phenomenon by taking into account the surface properties of a chiral superconductor. We identify two main…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Akira Furusaki , Masashige Matsumoto , Manfred Sigrist

Motivated by the surface of topological insulators, the Dirac anomaly's discontinuous dependence on sign of the mass, $m/|m|$, is investigated on closed topologies when mass terms are weak or only partially cover the surface. It is found…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-11 Alexander Selem

We present a study of the excitations of the edge of a two-dimensional electron droplet in a magnetic field in terms of a contour dynamics formalism. We find that, beyond the usual linear approximation, the non-linear analysis yields…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Wexler , Alan T. Dorsey

We study some dynamical properties of a Dirac field in 2+1 dimensions with spacetime dependent domain wall defects. We show that the Callan and Harvey mechanism applies even to the case of defects of arbitrary shape, and in a general state…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 C. D. Fosco , E. Fradkin , A. Lopez

A finite equilibrium current density arises in the anomalous Hall effect (AHE) as a result of time-reversal symmetry breaking, affecting both the differential current density and total current. This study illustrates the equilibrium current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-12 Ning Dai , Bin Zhou

The manifestation of the bulk quantum Hall effect on edge is the chiral anomaly. The chiral anomaly {\it is} the underlying principle of the ``edge approach'' of quantum Hall effect. In that approach, $\sxy$ should not be taken as the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Y. -C. Kao , D. -H. Lee

Influences of topological defect and dislocation on conductivity behavior of charge carries in external electromagnetic fields are studied. Particularly the quantum Hall effect is investigated in detail. It is found that the nontrivial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 Kai Ma , Jian-Hua Wang , Huan-Xiong Yang , Hua-Wei Fan

Quantum Hall physics is at the heart of research on both matter and artificial systems, such as cold atomic gases, with non-trivial topological order. We report on the observation of a chiral edge current by transferring atomic wavepackets…

In two-dimensional lattice systems, massless Dirac fermions undergo doubling, leading to the cancellation of net chirality. We demonstrate that the recently discovered altermagnetism can induce a unique mass term, the altermagnetic mass…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Peng-Yi Liu , Yu-Hao Wan , Qing-Feng Sun

An interaction-driven nonzero quantum Hall conductivity is shown to occur in time-reversal symmetric massive Dirac materials, in the absence of any external agent. The effect is produced through the dynamical breakdown of time-reversal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-07 Leandro O. Nascimento , E. C. Marino , Van Sérgio Alves , C. Morais Smith

We derive the effective field theory from the microscopic Hamiltonian of interacting two-dimensional (pseudo) Dirac electrons by performing a statistic gauge transformation. The quantized Hall conductance are expected to be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-02 Huabi Zeng

Chiral superconductors are theorized to exhibit spontaneous edge currents. Here, we found magnetic fields at the edges of UTe$_2$, a candidate odd-parity chiral superconductor, that seem to agree with predictions for a chiral order…

The half-quantized Hall conductance is characteristic of quantum systems with parity anomaly. Here we investigate topological and transport properties of a class of parity anomalous semimetals, in which massive Dirac fermions coexist with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Jin-Yu Zou , Bo Fu , Huan-Wen Wang , Zi-Ang Hu , Shun-Qing Shen

For systems with charged chiral fermions, the imbalance of chirality in the presence of magnetic field generates an electric current - this is the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME). We study the dynamical real-time evolution of electromagnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-29 Yuji Hirono , Dmitri Kharzeev , Yi Yin

It has been shown that in metals and semiconductors the joint action of permanent magnetic and AC electric fields leads to arising of DC surface electric current. This is due to essentially non-linear dynamics of electronic gas in surface…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Ovchinnikov

Fascinating phenomena have been known to arise from the Dirac theory of relativistic quantum mechanics, which describes high energy particles having linear dispersion relations. Electrons in solids usually have non-relativistic dispersion…

We observe that the illumination of unbiased graphene in the quantum Hall regime with polarized terahertz laser radiation results in a direct edge current. This photocurrent is caused by an imbalance of persistent edge currents, which are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-05 H. Plank , M. V. Durnev , S. Candussio , J. Pernul , K. -M. Dantscher , E. Mönch , A. Sandner , J. Eroms , D. Weiss , V. V. Belkov , S. A. Tarasenko , S. D. Ganichev

A finite photonic lattice with two bands and a random gap is considered. Using a two-dimensional Dirac equation, the effect of a random sign of the Dirac mass is studied numerically. The edge state at the sample boundary has a strong…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-08-29 K. Ziegler

We show that when the electron and hole densities are unbalanced, observable nonlinear anomalous Hall effect and current-induced orbital magnetization appear at zero magnetic field in the weak charge ordering (CO) state of an organic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-21 Toshihito Osada , Andhika Kiswandhi

Diffusion of electrons in a two-dimensional system in static random magnetic fields is studied by solving the time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation numerically. The asymptotic behaviors of the second moment of the wave packets and the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Tohru Kawarabayashi , Tomi Ohtsuki