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Dirac Fermion Cooling in 3D Dirac Semimetal Cd\(_3\)As\(_2\)

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Electronic Band Structure Engineering and Ultrafast Dynamics of Dirac Semimetals

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Three-dimensional (3D) Dirac semimetals [1, 2] are characterized by Dirac fermions with linear dispersion near the point-like Dirac nodes in the 3D momentum space, which can be viewed as 3D analogues of two-dimensional (2D) Dirac fermions in graphene.

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Bao, C. (2023). Dirac Fermion Cooling in 3D Dirac Semimetal Cd\(_3\)As\(_2\). In: Electronic Band Structure Engineering and Ultrafast Dynamics of Dirac Semimetals. Springer Theses. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-5325-7_6

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