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The recent discovery of Weyl fermions in solids enables exploitation of relativistic physics and development of a spectrum of intriguing physical phenomena. They are constituted of pairs of Weyl points with two-fold band degeneracy, which…
Weyl fermions are two-component chiral fermions in (3+1)-dimensions. When coupled to a gauge field, the Weyl fermion is known to have an axial anomaly, which means the current conservation of the left-handed and right-handed Weyl fermions…
In recent years fractal Weyl laws and related quantum eigenfunction hypothesis have been studied in a plethora of numerical model systems, called quantum maps. In some models studied there one can easily prove uniform hyperbolicity. Yet, a…
We study orthogonality relations for Fourier frequencies and complex exponentials in Hilbert spaces $L^2(\mu)$ with measures $\mu$ arising from iterated function systems (IFS). This includes equilibrium measures in complex dynamics.…
A Drude-Sommerfeld topological model (DSTM) is proposed to describe Weyl fermions under residual collisions. They are nearly free and dressed by their own weak magnetic field that breaks the reflection and time symmetries around a layer.…
This work concerns the asymptotic analysis of high-frequency wave propagation in randomly layered media with fast variations and long-range correlations. The analysis takes place in the 3D physical space and weak-coupling regime. The role…
The Weyl equation describes chiral massless relativistic particles, called Weyl fermions, which have important relations to neutrinos. A direct observation of the dynamics of Weyl fermions in an experiment is difficult to achieve. This…
The generalized spectral decomposition of the Frobenius-Perron operator of the tent map with varying height is determined at the band-splitting points. The decomposition includes both decay onto the attracting set and the approach to the…
Let $\mathbf{T}$ be a pair of commuting hyponormal operators satisfying the so-called quasitriangular property $$ \textrm{dim} \; \textrm{ker} \; (\mathbf{T}-\boldsymbol\lambda) \ge \textrm{dim} \; \textrm{ker} \; (\mathbf{T} -…
When subjected to parallel electric field $\mathbf E$ and magnetic field $\mathbf B$, Weyl semimetals exhibit the exotic transport property known as the chiral anomaly due to the pumping of electrons between Weyl cones of opposite…
We prove a sharp Weyl estimate for the number of eigenvalues belonging to a fixed interval of energy of a self-adjoint difference operator acting on $\ell^2(\epsilon\mathbb{Z}^d)$ if the associated symplectic volume of phase space in…
We present a numerical model that simulates the current-voltage (I-V) characteristics of materials that exhibit percolation conduction. The model consists of a two dimensional grid of exponentially different resistors in the presence of an…
Under general assumptions, the numbers of semiclassical resonances is known to be bounded from above by a negative power of $h$ which is given by the fractal dimension of the trapped set. In this paper we provide examples of operators with…
Weyl fermions have recently been observed in several time-reversal-invariant semimetals and photonics materials with broken inversion symmetry. These systems are expected to have exotic transport properties such as the chiral anomaly.…
Weyl semimetals are one kind of three-dimensional gapless semimetal with nontrivial topology in the momentum space. The chiral anomaly in Weyl semimetals manifests as a charge imbalance between the Weyl nodes of opposite chiralities induced…
We find the high energy asymptotics for the singular Weyl--Titchmarsh m-functions and the associated spectral measures of perturbed spherical Schr\"odinger operators (also known as Bessel operators). We apply this result to establish an…
We deduce eigenvalue asymptotics of the Neumann--Poincar\'e operators in three dimensions. The region $\Omega$ is $C^{2, \alpha}$ ($\alpha>0$) bounded in ${\mathbf R}^3$ and the Neumann--Poincar\'e operator ${\mathcal K}_{\partial\Omega} :…
A semiclassical argument is used to show that the low-lying spectrum of a selfadjoint operator, the so-called spectral localizer, determines the number of Dirac or Weyl points of an ideal semimetal. Apart from the IMS localization…
We present the first theoretical study of transport properties of Weyl semimetals with point defects. Focusing on a class of time-reversal symmetric Weyl lattice models, we show that dilute lattice vacancies induce a finite density of…
This paper is concerned with the discrete spectrum of the self-adjoint realization of the semi-classical Schr\"odinger operator with constant magnetic field and associated with the de Gennes (Fourier/Robin) boundary condition. We derive an…