Supermoiré low-energy effective theory of twisted trilayer graphene

Y Mao, D Guerci, C Mora - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Stacking three monolayers of graphene with a twist generally produces two moiré patterns.
A moiré of moiré structure then emerges at larger distance where the three layers …

Hawking fragmentation and Hawking attenuation in Weyl semimetals

D Sabsovich, P Wunderlich, V Fleurov, DI Pikulin… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
We study black and white hole analogs in Weyl semimetals with inhomogeneous nodal tilts.
We study how the presence of a microscopic lattice, giving rise to low-energy fermion …

Bound-extended mode transition in type-II synthetic photonic Weyl heterostructures

W Song, Z Lin, J Ji, J Sun, C Chen, S Wu, C Huang… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Photonic structures with Weyl points (WPs), including type I and type II, promise nontrivial
surface modes and intriguing light manipulations for their three-dimensional topological …

Analogue Hawking radiation as a tunneling in a two-level PT-symmetric system

B Bagchi, R Ghosh, S Sen - Entropy, 2023 - mdpi.com
In light of a general scenario of a two-level non-Hermitian PT-symmetric Hamiltonian, we
apply the tetrad-based method to analyze the possibility of analogue Hawking radiation. We …

Black hole mirages: Electron lensing and Berry curvature effects in inhomogeneously tilted Weyl semimetals

A Haller, S Hegde, C Xu, C De Beule, TL Schmidt… - SciPost Physics, 2023 - scipost.org
We study electronic transport in Weyl semimetals with spatially varying nodal tilt profiles. We
find that the flow of electrons can be guided precisely by judiciously chosen tilt profiles. In a …

Anisotropic optics and gravitational lensing of tilted Weyl fermions

V Könye, L Mertens, C Morice, D Chernyavsky… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We show that tilted Weyl semimetals with a spatially varying tilt of the Weyl cones provide a
platform for studying analogs to problems in anisotropic optics as well as curved spacetime …

Type-II Weyl semimetal versus gravastar

GE Volovik - JETP Letters, 2021 - Springer
The boundary between the type I and type II Weyl semimetals serves as the event horizon
for the “relativistic” fermions. The interior of the black hole is represented by the type II Weyl …

Thermalization by a synthetic horizon

L Mertens, AG Moghaddam, D Chernyavsky… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
Synthetic horizons in models for quantum matter provide an alternative route to explore
fundamental questions of modern gravitational theory. Here we apply these concepts to the …

Horizon physics of quasi-one-dimensional tilted Weyl cones on a lattice

V Könye, C Morice, D Chernyavsky… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
To simulate the dynamics of massless Dirac fermions in curved space-times with one, two,
and three spatial dimensions, we construct tight-binding Hamiltonians with spatially varying …

Quantum dynamics in 1D lattice models with synthetic horizons

C Morice, D Chernyavsky, J van Wezel… - SciPost Physics …, 2022 - scipost.org
We investigate the wave packet dynamics and eigenstate localization in recently proposed
generalized lattice models whose low-energy dynamics mimic a quantum field theory in (1+ …