Equation 2 · Part 1 · A Strained Crystal Is a Designer Spacetime
Symbol boldsymbolσ
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…into a black hole, with the tilt itself playing the role of the metric’s off-diagonal, “flow” components. The paper writes the whole statement as a single Hamiltonian, fixing the Fermi velocity , the Pauli matrices acting on the electron’s internal degree of freedom, the momentum-space shift , and the tilt vector W(x) :
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