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21 November 2022

This paper deals with the application of the mathematical apparatus of quantum mechanics for the formulation of an operatorial model of a couple of populations spatially distributed over a one-dimensional region. The two populations interact with a c...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,919 Views
28 Pages

6 November 2018

The Lie algebraic scheme for constructing Hamiltonian operators is differential-algebraically recast and an effective approach is devised for classifying the underlying algebraic structures of integrable Hamiltonian systems. Lie–Poisson analysi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
2,630 Views
9 Pages

Symmetric Mass Generation in Lattice Gauge Theory

  • Nouman Butt,
  • Simon Catterall and
  • Goksu Can Toga

30 November 2021

We construct a four-dimensional lattice gauge theory in which fermions acquire mass without breaking symmetries as a result of gauge interactions. Our model consists of reduced staggered fermions transforming in the bifundamental representation of an...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,722 Views
22 Pages

The Kitaev chain model exhibits topological order that manifests as topological degeneracy, Majorana edge modes and Z2 topological invariant of the bulk spectrum. This model can be obtained from a transverse field Ising model(TFIM) using the Jordan–W...

(This article belongs to the Section Condensed Matter Theory)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,175 Views
15 Pages

2 March 2020

Physics of topological materials has attracted much attention from both physicists and mathematicians recently. The index and the fermion number of Dirac fermions play an important role in topological insulators and topological superconductors. A zer...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Vortex, Topology and Singularity in Quantum Systems)
  • Review
  • Open Access
257 Views
77 Pages

A Fermion Primer

  • Loriano Bonora and
  • Roberto Soldati

2 October 2026

This is a review paper intended to illustrate a few critical issues concerning Dirac, Weyl, and Majorana fermions and their differences. The first part consists of a basic introduction to fermions, with further detail on fermions in 4d, focusing in p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Symmetries: Structures, Dynamics, and Algebra)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,946 Views
16 Pages

Formal Developments for Lorentz-Violating Dirac Fermions and Neutrinos

  • João Alfíeres Andrade de Simões dos Reis and
  • Marco Schreck

24 September 2019

The current paper is a technical work that is focused on Lorentz violation for Dirac fermions as well as neutrinos, described within the nonminimal Standard-Model Extension. We intend to derive two theoretical results. The first is the full propagato...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Special and General Relativity)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,896 Views
13 Pages

Energetic Cost of Statistical Order-Degree Change in a Fermions’ Set

  • Flavia Pennini,
  • Angelo Plastino,
  • Gustavo Luis Ferri and
  • Angel Ricardo Plastino

26 May 2022

We discuss novel many-fermions thermodynamics’ features. They refer to the energy cost associated to order-disorder changes. Our thermal quantum statistical scenario is controlled by suitable fermion-fermion interactions. We deal with two well-...

(This article belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,016 Views
14 Pages

Boson–Fermion Algebraic Mapping in Second Quantization

  • Fabio Lingua,
  • Diego Molina Peñafiel,
  • Lucrezia Ravera and
  • Sebastián Salgado

8 December 2024

We present an algebraic method to derive the structure at the basis of the mapping of bosonic algebras of creation and annihilation operators into fermionic algebras, and vice versa, introducing a suitable identification between bosonic and fermionic...

(This article belongs to the Section Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Black Holes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,158 Views
63 Pages

2 July 2025

We consider the macroscopic motion of the normal component of superfluid 3He-A in global thermodynamic equilibrium within the context of the Zubarev statistical operator method. We formulate the corresponding effective theory in the language of the f...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Physics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,093 Views
10 Pages

19 January 2019

In a local gauge-invariant theory with massless Dirac fermions, a symmetry of the Lorentz-invariant fermion charge is larger than a symmetry of the Lagrangian as a whole. While the Dirac Lagrangian exhibits only a chiral symmetry, the fermion charge...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 7th International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP 2018))
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  • Open Access
514 Views
39 Pages

27 August 2026

The description of the internal spaces of fermion and boson fields with “basis vectors”, which are the superpositions of odd and even products of the operators γa, with the index a running in internal and external space-time, sugges...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Beyond the Standard Models of Physics and Cosmology: 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,471 Views
10 Pages

A Proposed Device for Controlling the Flow of Information Based on Weyl Fermions

  • Georgios N. Tsigaridas,
  • Aristides I. Kechriniotis,
  • Christos A. Tsonos and
  • Konstantinos K. Delibasis

24 May 2024

In this work we propose a novel device for controlling the flow of information using Weyl fermions. Based on a previous work by our group, we show that it is possible to fully control the flow of Weyl fermions on several different channels by applyin...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
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  • Open Access
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20 Pages

A formal thermodynamic mapping is established between the attractive Fermi–Hubbard model and the repulsive Bose–Hubbard model at finite temperature and at imaginary chemical potential μ=iθ. By utilizing a large N-expansion, it is...

(This article belongs to the Section Statistical Physics and Nonlinear Phenomena)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,741 Views
13 Pages

22 February 2019

The opening of a charge gap driven by interaction is a fingerprint of the transition to a Mott insulating phase. In strongly correlated low-dimensional quantum systems, it can be associated to the ordering of hidden non-local operators. For Fermionic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Metal-Insulator Transitions)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,216 Views
14 Pages

15 November 2023

In this work, an analogue to the Pauli spin matrices is presented and investigated. The proposed Hermitian spin matrices exhibit four symmetries for spin-1/n particles. The spin projection operators are derived, and the electrodynamics for hypothetic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems—Theory and Applications)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,079 Views
10 Pages

1 September 2024

We consider the discrete Z4 symmetry i^, which takes place in the scenario of quantum gravity where the gravitational tetrads emerge as the order parameter—the vacuum expectation value of the bilinear combination of fermionic operators. Under t...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,959 Views
28 Pages

24 April 2022

Using the Lieb–Mattis ordering theorem of electronic energy levels, we identify the Hilbert space of the low energy sector of U(N) quantum Hall/Heisenberg ferromagnets at filling factor M for L Landau/lattice sites with the carrier space of irreducib...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,349 Views
13 Pages

13 February 2023

A new route to the Dirac equation and its symmetries is outlined on the basis of the four-vector representation of the Lorentz group (LG). This way permits one to linearize the first Casimir operator of the LG in terms of the energy–momentum fo...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Physics)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,041 Views
34 Pages

1 May 2026

The paper deals with the asymptotic behavior of a widely used correlation characteristic in large quantum systems. The correlation is quantum entanglement, the characteristic is entanglement entropy, and the system is an ideal gas of lattice fermions...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Information)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,097 Views
48 Pages

Uniqueness Criteria for the Fock Quantization of Dirac Fields and Applications in Hybrid Loop Quantum Cosmology

  • Jerónimo Cortez,
  • Beatriz Elizaga Navascués,
  • Guillermo A. Mena Marugán,
  • Santiago Prado and
  • José M. Velhinho

13 December 2020

In generic curved spacetimes, the unavailability of a natural choice of vacuum state introduces a serious ambiguity in the Fock quantization of fields. In this review, we study the case of fermions described by a Dirac field in non-stationary spaceti...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,533 Views
15 Pages

23 October 2023

A new approach to the Dirac equation and the associated hadronic symmetries is proposed. In this approach, we linearize the second Casimir operator of the Lorentz Group, which is defined by the energy–momentum four-vector and the fermion spin,...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,975 Views
14 Pages

Field Fluctuations and Casimir Energy of 1D-Fermions

  • Manuel Donaire,
  • José María Muñoz-Castañeda,
  • Luis Miguel Nieto and
  • Marcos Tello-Fraile

7 May 2019

We investigate the self-adjoint extensions of the Dirac operator of a massive one-dimensional field of mass m confined in a finite filament of length L. We compute the spectrum of vacuum fluctuations of the Dirac field under the most general dispersi...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,205 Views
34 Pages

Dynamical Field Inference and Supersymmetry

  • Margret Westerkamp,
  • Igor Ovchinnikov,
  • Philipp Frank and
  • Torsten Enßlin

8 December 2021

Knowledge on evolving physical fields is of paramount importance in science, technology, and economics. Dynamical field inference (DFI) addresses the problem of reconstructing a stochastically-driven, dynamically-evolving field from finite data. It r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,427 Views
17 Pages

Solutions of a Two-Particle Interacting Quantum Walk

  • Alessandro Bisio,
  • Giacomo Mauro D’Ariano,
  • Nicola Mosco,
  • Paolo Perinotti and
  • Alessandro Tosini

5 June 2018

We study the solutions of an interacting Fermionic cellular automaton which is the analogue of the Thirring model with both space and time discrete. We present a derivation of the two-particle solutions of the automaton recently in the literature, wh...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Information and Foundations)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,697 Views
14 Pages

Calculation of Acceleration Effects Using the Zubarev Density Operator

  • Georgy Prokhorov,
  • Oleg Teryaev and
  • Valentin Zakharov

3 January 2020

The relativistic form of the Zubarev density operator can be used to study quantum effects associated with acceleration of the medium. In particular, it was recently shown that the calculation of perturbative corrections in acceleration based on the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonequilibrium Phenomena in Strongly Correlated Systems)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,335 Views
14 Pages

17 May 2024

In the Standard Model, ad hoc hypotheses assume the existence of three generations of point-like leptons and quarks, which possess a point-like structure and follow the Dirac equation involving four anti-commutative matrices. In this work, we conside...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Geometric Mechanics and Mathematical Physics)
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  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,974 Views
13 Pages

4 February 2020

The aim of this study was to define a new operator. This operator unify and modify many known operators, some of which were introduced by the author. Many properties of this operator are given. Using this operator, two new classes of special polynomi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The 32th Congress of The Jangjeon Mathematical Society (ICJMS2019) will be Held at Far Eastern Federal Universit, Vladivostok Russia)
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  • Open Access
215 Views
27 Pages

16 October 2026

Decoherence and einselection do not specify, among the field operators of the Standard Model, what realises the pointer basis for Born-rule probabilities on a physical observer. Since observers in relativistic quantum theory are themselves composite...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in the Second Quantum Century)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,462 Views
10 Pages

10 November 2024

Quantum deformations offer valuable perspectives into quantum mechanics, particularly by advancing our understanding of symmetry and algebraic structures.The Dunkl oscillator, which integrates Dunkl operators into the harmonic oscillator framework, a...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,743 Views
14 Pages

7 August 2012

In the present paper we study subsolutions of the Dirac and Duffin–Kemmer–Petiau equations in the interacting case. It is shown that the Dirac equation in longitudinal external fields can be split into two covariant subequations (Dirac equations with...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Supersymmetry)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
8,873 Views
14 Pages

27 April 2015

We revisit the charge-conjugation operation for the Dirac equation in its chiral representation. A new decomposition of the Dirac spinor field is suggested and achieved by means of projection operators based on charge conjugation, which is discussed...

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6 Citations
5,553 Views
11 Pages

5 June 2015

We introduce, generate and study a family of supersymmetric displaced number states (SDNS) that can be considered generalized coherent states of the supersymmetric harmonic oscillator. The family is created from the seminal supersymmetric boson-fermi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Supersymmetry 2014)
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  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,032 Views
14 Pages

Spreading of Competing Information in a Network

  • Fabio Bagarello,
  • Francesco Gargano and
  • Francesco Oliveri

17 October 2020

We propose a simple approach to investigate the spreading of news in a network. In more detail, we consider two different versions of a single type of information, one of which is close to the essence of the information (and we call it good news), an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Models of Cognition and Decision-Making)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,147 Views
19 Pages

Bath Engineering Enhanced Quantum Critical Engines

  • Revathy B.S,
  • Victor Mukherjee and
  • Uma Divakaran

13 October 2022

Driving a quantum system across quantum critical points leads to non-adiabatic excitations in the system. This in turn may adversely affect the functioning of a quantum machine which uses a quantum critical substance as its working medium. Here we pr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Thermodynamics in Quantum and Mesoscopic Systems)
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  • Open Access
2,842 Views
18 Pages

A Z3-Graded Lie Superalgebra with Cubic Vacuum Triality

  • Yuxuan Zhang,
  • Weitong Hu and
  • Wei Zhang

27 December 2025

We construct a finite-dimensional Z3-graded Lie superalgebra of dimensions (12,4,3), featuring a grade-2 sector that obeys a cubic bracket relation with the fermionic sector. This induces an emergent triality symmetry cycling the three components. Th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Lie Algebras)
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1 Citations
2,985 Views
18 Pages

Superspace BRST/BV Operators of Superfield Gauge Theories

  • Ioseph Lvovich Buchbinder,
  • Sylvester James Gates and
  • Konstantinos Koutrolikos

28 January 2022

We consider the superspace BRST and BV description of 4D,N=1 super-Maxwell theory and its non-abelian generalization Super Yang–Mills. By fermionizing the superspace gauge transformation of the gauge superfields, we define the nilpotent supersp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Manifest and Hidden Symmetries in Field and String Theories)
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18 Citations
3,578 Views
13 Pages

Unconventional SUSY and Conventional Physics: A Pedagogical Review

  • Pedro D. Alvarez,
  • Lucas Delage,
  • Mauricio Valenzuela and
  • Jorge Zanelli

9 April 2021

In supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model, the observed particles come in fermion–boson pairs necessary for the realization of supersymmetry (SUSY). In spite of the expected abundance of super-partners for all the known particles, not a sing...

(This article belongs to the Section C: Physics)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,888 Views
12 Pages

Optical Studies and Transmission Electron Microscopy of HgCdTe Quantum Well Heterostructures for Very Long Wavelength Lasers

  • Vladimir V. Rumyantsev,
  • Anna A. Razova,
  • Leonid S. Bovkun,
  • Dmitriy A. Tatarskiy and ,
  • Vladimir Y. Mikhailovskii,
  • Maksim S. Zholudev,
  • Anton V. Ikonnikov,
  • Tatyana A. Uaman Svetikova,
  • Kirill V. Maremyanin and
  • Sergey V. Morozov
  • + 14 authors+ 9 authors

19 July 2021

HgTe/CdHgTe quantum well (QW) heterostructures have attracted a lot of interest recently due to insights they provided towards the physics of topological insulators and massless Dirac fermions. Our work focuses on HgCdTe QWs with the energy spectrum...

(This article belongs to the Section Nanoelectronics, Nanosensors and Devices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,774 Views
14 Pages

Analysis of Near-Field Magnetic Responses on ZrTe5 through Cryogenic Magneto-THz Nano-Imaging

  • Samuel Haeuser,
  • Richard H. J. Kim,
  • Joong-Mok Park,
  • Randall K. Chan and ,
  • Muhammad Imran,
  • Thomas Koschny and
  • Jigang Wang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

One manifestation of light-Weyl fermion interaction is the emergence of chiral magnetic effects under magnetic fields. Probing real space magnetic responses at terahertz (THz) scales is challenging but highly desired, as the local responses are less...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,090 Views
22 Pages

7 August 2019

The momentum-independent Casimir operators of the homogeneous spin-Lorentz group are employed in the construction of covariant projector operators, which can decompose anyone of its reducible finite-dimensional representation spaces into irreducible...

(This article belongs to the Section Field Theory)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,059 Views
19 Pages

29 June 2022

In this paper we continued our research of the uniform electron gas in a warm dense matter regime, focusing on the momentum distribution functions and pair correlation functions. We use the single–momentum path integral Monte Carlo method, base...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing II)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,378 Views
22 Pages

18 January 2023

In a basis of the space-time coordinate frame four quaternions discovered by Hamilton can be used. For subsequent reproduction of the coordinate frame these four quaternions are expanded to four 4 × 4 matrices with real-valued matrix coefficien...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Asymmetry in Quantum Mechanics)
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  • Open Access
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23 Pages

Functional Quantum Field Theory in Phase Space

  • Jose A. R. Cembranos and
  • Marcos Skowronek

The formulation of Quantum Field Theory (QFT) in phase space offers a unique alternative to operator and path-integral paradigms, providing distinct conceptual advantages for semiclassical expansions. In this work, we present a systematic and self-co...

(This article belongs to the Section Foundations and Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics)
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  • Open Access
44 Citations
3,171 Views
13 Pages

Dilaton Effective Field Theory

  • Thomas Appelquist,
  • James Ingoldby and
  • Maurizio Piai

23 December 2022

We review and extend recent studies of dilaton effective field theory (dEFT) that provide a framework for the description of the Higgs boson as a composite structure. We first describe the dEFT as applied to lattice data for a class of gauge theories...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Higgs and BSM Physics: 10th Anniversary of the Discovery of the Higgs Boson)
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4 Citations
3,307 Views
20 Pages

21 January 2023

We introduce and prove the “root theorem”, which establishes a condition for families of operators to annihilate all root states associated with zero modes of a given positive semi-definite k-body Hamiltonian chosen from a large class. Th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Quantum Orders)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,477 Views
14 Pages

Relations between Clifford Algebra and Dirac Matrices in the Presence of Families

  • Dragan Lukman,
  • Mickael Komendyak and
  • Norma Susana Mankoč Borštnik

29 June 2020

The internal degrees of freedom of fermions are in the spin-charge-family theory described by the Clifford algebra objects, which are superposition of an odd number of γ a ’s. Arranged into irreducible representations of “eig...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Beyond the Standard Models in Particle Physics and Cosmology)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,619 Views
9 Pages

Proximity-Induced Superconducting States of Magnetically Doped 3D Topological Insulators with High Bulk Insulation

  • Rikizo Yano,
  • Hishiro T. Hirose,
  • Kohei Tsumura,
  • Shuhei Yamamoto and ,
  • Masao Koyanagi,
  • Manabu Kanou,
  • Hiromi Kashiwaya,
  • Takao Sasagawa and
  • Satoshi Kashiwaya
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

We studied magnetized topological insulator/superconductor junctions with the expectation of unconventional superconductive states holding Majorana fermions induced by superconductive proximity effects on the surface states of magnetized topological...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Majorana Fermions and Topological Materials Science)
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Coincident Nodal Line and Nodal Surface Phonon States in Ternary Phosphide Compound BaLiP

  • Hong Cui,
  • Yunjian Chen,
  • Qin Kang,
  • Pengyue Shan and ,
  • Tie Yang and
  • Peng Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

18 October 2022

With the continuous development of topological properties in condensed matter systems, the current research focus has been expanded into phononic bosonic states. Compared with the conventional electronic fermions, topological phonons exhibit very dis...

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