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The tilt is where the geometry stops being a figure of speech. Once the tilt varies smoothly from place to place across a crystal, an electron propagating through it is, at leading order in the standard low-energy expansion, equivalent to a particle moving through a curved effective spacetime of the same mathematical form — a Painlevé–Gullstrand metric — that describes an object falling 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…
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Equation 4 · Crossed Fields
A Strained Crystal Is a Designer Spacetime
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The tilt is where the geometry stops being a figure of speech. Once the tilt varies smoothly from place to place across a crystal, an electron propagating through it is, at leading order in the standard low-energy expansion, equivalent to a particle moving through a curved effective spacetime of the same mathematical form — a Painlevé–Gullstrand metric — that describes an object falling 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…
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A Strained Crystal Is a Designer Spacetime
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The first term is ordinary tilted-free Weyl physics, shifted by the strain-induced gauge field. The second term is the one that matters here: it multiplies the momentum by the tilt and by the identity matrix, so it does not distinguish between the electron’s two internal states the way the first term does — it simply drags the whole cone in one direction, by an amount that depends on position through W(x) . Where |W| crosses the value 1, the type-I/type-II boundary, the cone tips over far enough that one branch of carriers can only move one way past that line, in exactly the sense that nothing can move outward past an event horizon. That correspondence between an over-tilted Weyl cone and a…
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