Measure of Diracness in two-dimensional semiconductors

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Abstract

We analyze the low-energy properties of two-dimensional direct-gap semiconductors, such as for example the transition-metal dichalcogenides MoS2_2, WS2_2, and their diselenide analogues MoSe2_2, WSe2_2, etc., which are currently intensively investigated. In general, their electrons have a mixed character -- they can be massive Dirac fermions as well as simple Schrödinger particles. We propose a measure (Diracness) for the degree of mixing between the two characters and discuss how this quantity can in principle be extracted experimentally, within magneto-transport measurements, and numerically via ab initio calculations.

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