Finite-temperature plasmons, damping, and collective behavior in the model

A Iurov, L Zhemchuzhna, G Gumbs, D Huang, D Dahal… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We have conducted a thorough theoretical and numerical investigation of the electronic
susceptibility, the polarizability, the plasmon modes and their damping rates, and the static …

Unconventional phases in a Haldane model of dice lattice

B Dey, P Kapri, O Pal, TK Ghosh - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We propose a Haldane-like model of dice lattice analogous to graphene and explore its
topological properties within the tight-binding formalism. The topological phase boundary of …

Tailoring plasmon excitations in armchair nanoribbons

A Iurov, L Zhemchuzhna, G Gumbs, D Huang… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
We have calculated and investigated the electronic states, dynamical polarization function
and the plasmon excitations for α-T 3 nanoribbons with armchair-edge termination. The …

Electron-phonon coupling induced topological phase transition in an Haldane-Holstein model

M Islam, K Bhattacharyya, S Basu - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We present impelling evidence of topological phase transitions induced by electron-phonon
(e-ph) coupling in an α-T 3 Haldane-Holstein model that facilitates smooth tunability …

Quantum-statistical theory for laser-tuned transport and optical conductivities of dressed electrons in materials

A Iurov, L Zhemchuzhna, D Dahal, G Gumbs, D Huang - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
In the presence of external off-resonance and circularly polarized irradiation, we have
derived a many-body formalism and performed a detailed numerical analysis for both the …

Generalized WKB theory for electron tunneling in gapped lattices

N Weekes, A Iurov, L Zhemchuzhna, G Gumbs… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We generalize Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) semiclassical equations for pseudospin-1
α− T 3 materials with arbitrary hopping parameter 0< α< 1, which includes the dice lattice …

Quantum spin Hall phase transition in the lattice

J Wang, JF Liu - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We report a theoretic study of the topological properties of the α-T 3 lattice by taking the
intrinsic spin orbit interaction into account. It is shown that when 0< α< 1, the electronic band …

Gap generation and flat band catalysis in dice model with local interaction

EV Gorbar, VP Gusynin, DO Oriekhov - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
The gap generation in the dice model with local four-fermion interaction is studied. Due to
the presence of two valleys with degenerate electron states, there are two main types of …

Many-Body Effects and Optical Properties of Single- and Double Layer - Lattices

A Iurov, G Gumbs, D Huang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.05681, 2020 - arxiv.org
An extensive analytical and numerical investigation has been carried out to examine the role
played by many-body effects on various $\alpha $-$\mathcal {T} _3 $ materials under an off …

Klein tunneling of optically tunable Dirac particles with elliptical dispersions

A Iurov, L Zhemchuzhna, P Fekete, G Gumbs… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
We have investigated electron tunneling through an atomically smooth square potential
barrier for both the dice lattice and graphene under a linearly polarized off-resonant and …