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arxiv: 1809.02276 · v2 · pith:VPESUV7Jnew · submitted 2018-09-07 · ❄️ cond-mat.mes-hall

Energy quantization at the "three-quarter Dirac point" in a magnetic field

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keywords diracenergyquantizationthree-quarteralphafieldmagneticpoint
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The quantization of the energy in a magnetic field (Landau quantization) at a three-quarter Dirac point is studied theoretically. The three-quarter Dirac point is realized in the system of massless Dirac fermions with the critically tilted Dirac cone in one direction, where a linear term disappears and a quadratic term $\alpha_2 q_x^2$ with aconstant $\alpha_2$ plays an important role. The energy is obtained as $E_n \propto \alpha_2^{\frac{3}{5}} (n B)^{\frac{4}{5}}$, where $n=1, 2, 3, \dots$, by means of numerically and analytically solving the differential equation, as well as by the semiclassical quantization rule. The existence of the $n=0$ state is studied by introducing the energy gap due to the inversion-symmetry-breaking term, and it is obtained that the $n=0$ state exists in one of a pair of three-quarter Dirac points, depending on the direction of the magnetic field when the energy gap is finite.

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