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We consider Andreev-Majorana (AM) bound states with zero energy on surfaces, interfaces and vortices in different phases of the $p$-wave superfluids. We discuss the chiral superfluid $^3$He-A, and time reversal invariant phases: superfluid…

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We study the topological properties of 3D Floquet bandstructures, which are defined using unitary evolution matrices rather than Hamiltonians. Previously, 2D bandstructures of this sort have been shown to exhibit anomalous topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 Hailong Wang , Longwen Zhou , Yidong Chong

Smooth interfaces of topological systems are known to host massive surface states along with the topologically protected chiral one. We show that in Weyl semimetals these massive states, along with the chiral Fermi arc, strongly alter the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Xin Lu , Dibya Kanti Mukherjee , Mark O. Goerbig

The ideas of topology have found tremendous success in Hermitian physical systems, but even richer properties exist in the more general non-Hermitian framework. Here, we theoretically propose and experimentally demonstrate a new…

We introduce a general mechanism for obtaining Weyl points in a stack of 2D quasicrystals, which can be extended to any stack of aperiodic layers. We do so by driving a topological phase transition with the vertical crystal-momentum as the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-21 André Grossi e Fonseca , Thomas Christensen , John D. Joannopoulos , Marin Soljačić

The recent discovery of the first Weyl semimetal in TaAs provides the first observation of a Weyl fermion in nature. Such a topological semimetal features a novel type of anomalous surface state, the Fermi arc, which connects a pair of Weyl…

Wilson-loop has been widely used to characterize the topological property of topological insulators, high order topological insulators and topological semimetals. Both bulk topological invariants and nontrivial boundary properties can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-21 Yi-Dong Wu

We report a combined experimental and theoretical study of the candidate type-II Weyl semimetal MoTe2. Using laser-based angle-resolved photoemission we resolve multiple distinct Fermi arcs on the inequivalent top and bottom (001) surfaces.…

Weyl semimetals are known to host massless surface states called Fermi arcs. These Fermi arcs are the manifestation of the bulk-edge correspondence in topological matter and thus are analogous to the topological chiral surface states of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-09 Dibya Kanti Mukherjee , David Carpentier , Mark Oliver Goerbig

We provide a manifestly topological classification scheme for generalised Weyl semimetals, in any spatial dimension and with arbitrary Weyl surfaces which may be non-trivially linked. The classification naturally incorporates that of Chern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-22 Varghese Mathai , Guo Chuan Thiang

We consider a non-Hermitian superconducting system by coupling a conventional superconductor to a ferromagnet lead and demonstrate the emergence of exceptional points when an external Zeeman field is applied. We discover that, depending on…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-28 Jorge Cayao , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Trigonal PtBi$_2$ is a layered semimetal without inversion symmetry, featuring 12 Weyl points in the vicinity of the Fermi energy. Its topological Fermi arcs were recently shown to superconduct at low temperatures where bulk…

Chiral fermions in solid state feature "Fermi arc" states, connecting the surface projections of the bulk chiral nodes. The surface Fermi arc is a signature of nontrivial bulk topology. Unconventional chiral fermions with an extensive Fermi…

Dirac and Weyl semimetals both exhibit arc-like surface states. However, whereas the surface Fermi arcs in Weyl semimetals are topological consequences of the Weyl points themselves, the surface Fermi arcs in Dirac semimetals are not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-27 Benjamin J. Wieder , Zhijun Wang , Jennifer Cano , Xi Dai , Leslie M. Schoop , Barry Bradlyn , B. Andrei Bernevig

Fermi arc states are features of Weyl semimetal (WSM) surfaces which are robust due to the topological character of the bulk band structure. We demonstrate that Fermi arcs may undergo profound restructurings when surfaces of different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-01 Ganpathy Murthy , Herbert A Fertig , Efrat Shimshoni

We point out that a face-centered cubic (FCC) optical lattice, which can be realised by a simple scheme using three lasers, provides one a highly controllable platform for creating Weyl points and topological nodal superfluids in ultracold…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-07-26 Li-Jun Lang , Shao-Liang Zhang , K. T. Law , Qi Zhou

The Weyl particle is the massless fermionic cousin of the photon. While no fundamental Weyl particles have been identified, they arise in condensed matter and meta-material systems, where their spinor nature imposes topological constraints…

We study the properties of the surface states in three-dimensional topological insulators in the presence of a ferromagnetic exchange field. We demonstrate that for layered materials like Bi$_2$Se$_3$ the surface states on the top surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-21 Tomi Paananen , Henning Gerber , Matthias Götte , Thomas Dahm

We demonstrate that a Weyl point, widely examined in 3D Weyl semimetals and superfluids, can develop a pair of non-degenerate gapless spheres. Such a bouquet of two spheres is characterized by three distinct topological invariants of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-04-14 Yong Xu , Fan Zhang , Chuanwei Zhang

Weyl semimetals harbor unusual surface states known as Fermi arcs, which are essentially disjoint segments of a two dimensional Fermi surface. We describe a prescription for obtaining Fermi arcs of arbitrary shape and connectivity by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-11-08 Pavan Hosur