Search results for "Semimetal"
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Temperature and Isotopic Mass Dependence of the Direct Band Gap in Semiconductors: LCAO Calculations
2000
Collective amplitude mode fluctuations in a flat band superconductor formed at a semimetal surface
2016
We study the fluctuations of the amplitude (i.e., the Higgs-Anderson) mode in a superconducting system of coupled Dirac particles proposed as a model for possible surface or interface superconductivity in rhombohedral graphite. This system also serves as a generic model of a topological semimetal with an interaction-driven transition on its surface. We show that the absence of Fermi energy and vanishing of the excitation gap of the collective amplitude mode in the model leads to a large fluctuation contribution to thermodynamic quantities, such as the heat capacity. As a consequence, the mean-field theory becomes inaccurate, indicating that the interactions lead to a strongly correlated sta…
Valence instabilities and inhomogeneous mixed valence in some ternary europium compounds
1997
Abstract Photoemission spectra and TB-LMTO-ASA band structure calculations of some mixed valency europium compounds hve been studied. The band structures are compared with the band structures of the isostructural lanthanum and strontium compounds. Surprisingly a 4f density of states in the vicinity of the Fermi level is observed in inhomogenous mixed valency EuPd 3 B, Eu 3 S 4 , and EuPdP. Indeed a van Hove Singularity (vHS) derived from the d states of La and Pd or p states of boron or phosphorous are found in La 3 S 4 , LaPd 3 B and SrPdP. The valence instability in the Eu compounds is thus not necessarily due to Eu 4f states. The results also provide some ground for the assumption that i…
Demo 161. Resistencia eléctrica de un metal y de un semimetal. Bombillas de filamento incandescente: tungsteno vs. carbono
2021
Se presenta una demostración de aula que muestra que la curva voltaje-intensidad del filamento de una bombilla incandescente es no lineal. Para un filamento de tungsteno se observa que la resistencia eléctrica aumenta con la temperatura del filamento, la cual aumenta con la potencia eléctrica consumida, pues esta se disipa por radiación según la ley de Stefan. Para un filamento de carbono se observa que la resistencia eléctrica disminuye con la temperatura, evidenciando así que no es un metal (sino un semimetal). A classroom demonstration is presented showing that the voltage-intensity curve of the filament of an incandescent light bulb is non-linear. For a tungsten filament, it is observed…
Topological polarization, dual invariants, and surface flat band in crystalline insulators
2020
We describe a three-dimensional crystalline topological insulator (TI) phase of matter that exhibits spontaneous polarization. This polarization results from the presence of (approximately) flat bands on the surface of such TIs. These flat bands are a consequence of the bulk-boundary correspondence of polarized topological media, and contrary to related nodal line semimetal phases also containing surface flat bands, they span the entire surface Brillouin zone. We also present an example Hamiltonian exhibiting a Lifshitz transition from the nodal line phase to the TI phase with polarization. Utilizing elasticity tetrads, we show a complete classification of 3D crystalline TI phases and invar…
Momentum-space structure of surface states in a topological semimetal with a nexus point of Dirac lines
2016
Three-dimensional topological semimetals come in different variants, either containing Weyl points or Dirac lines. Here we describe a more complicated momentum-space topological defect where several separate Dirac lines connect with each other, forming a momentum-space equivalent of the real-space nexus considered before for helium-3. Close to the nexus the Dirac lines exhibit a transition from type I to type II lines. We consider a general model of stacked honeycomb lattices with the symmetry of Bernal (AB) stacked graphite and show that the structural mirror symmetries in such systems protect the presence of the Dirac lines, and also naturally lead to the formation of the nexus. By the bu…