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Equation 2 · Part 1 · A Strained Crystal Is a Designer Spacetime

Symbol boldsymbolσ

σ\boldsymbol{\sigma}
σ\boldsymbol{\sigma}

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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 vFv_F , the Pauli matrices σ\boldsymbol{\sigma} acting on the electron’s internal degree of freedom, the momentum-space shift b\mathbf{b} , and the tilt vector W(x) :

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