The virtual venue of the seminar will be:
https://vc.sharif.edu/ch/condensed-matter-physics

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Abstract:
Can solid state physics provide conditions where electric forces can manipulate an “emergent” spacetime geometry? Exemplified by the well known Dirac material, graphene, some solids admit effective low-energy excitations that enjoy an emergent Lorentz symmetry — hence an emergent Minkowski spacetime structure. Some other solids allow for an effective “tilted” Dirac cone in their electronic excitations spectrum. In this talk I will show that the root cause of such a tilt can be regarded as an underlying spacetime structure, described by certain metric. I discuss some phenomena and their spectroscopic manifestations that result from the metric structure.