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This study presents Fermi-arcs mediated transport in a Weyl semimetal thin slab, interfacing two $s$-wave superconductors. We present detailed study with both time-reversal and inversion symmetry broken Weyl semimetals under grounding,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-29 Rekha Kumari , Dibya Kanti Mukherjee , Arijit Kundu

This chapter describes topological (Dirac and Weyl) semimetals from the viewpoint of their observable electromagnetic response. We argue that this response may be represented by topological terms with unquantized (non-integer) coefficients…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 A. A. Burkov

Weyl semimetals are a new member of the topological materials family, featuring a pair of singly degenerate Weyl cones with linear dispersion around the nodes in the bulk, and Fermi arcs on the surface. Depending on whether the system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-29 Hao Zheng , M. Zahid Hasan

Dirac-Weyl fermions are massless relativistic particles with a well-defined helicity which arise in the context of high-energy physics. Here we propose a quantum simulation of these paradigmatic fermions using multicomponent ultracold atoms…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-01-04 Z. Lan , N. Goldman , A. Bermudez , W. Lu , P. Ohberg

We develop a theory for electron-electron interaction-induced many-body effects in three dimensional (3D) Weyl or Dirac semimetals, including interaction corrections to the polarizability, electron self-energy, and vertex function, up to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-07 Robert E. Throckmorton , Johannes Hofmann , Edwin Barnes , S. Das Sarma

Periodically driven systems provide tunable platforms to realize interesting Floquet topological phases and phase transitions. In electronic systems with Weyl dispersions, the band crossings are topologically protected even in the presence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-14 Ching-Kit Chan , Yun-Tak Oh , Jung Hoon Han , Patrick A. Lee

Embedding materials in optical cavities has emerged as a strategy for tuning material properties. Accurate simulations of electrons in materials interacting with quantum photon fluctuations of a cavity are crucial for understanding and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-28 Hang Liu , Francesco Troisi , Hannes Hübener , Simone Latini , Angel Rubio

We study viscoelastic response in Weyl semimetals with broken time-reversal symmetry. The principal finding is that topology and anisotropy of the Fermi surface are manifested in the viscoelasticity tensor of the electron fluid. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-24 A. A. Herasymchuk , E. V. Gorbar , P. O. Sukhachov

The quasiparticle spectra of interacting Weyl and nodal-line semimetals on a cubic lattice are studied using the cluster perturbation theory. By tracking the spectral functions under interaction, we find that the Weyl points will move to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-19 Jing Kang , Jianfei Zou , Kai Li , Shun-Li Yu , Lu-Bing Shao

The semi-Dirac semi-Weyl semi-metal has been of interest in recent years due to its naturally occurring point Fermi surface and the associated exotic band-structure near the Fermi surface, which is linear (graphene-like) in one direction of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-08-25 Swapnonil Banerjee

We study interaction-induced broken symmetry phases that can arise in metallic or semimetallic band structures with two nested Weyl or Dirac loops. The odered phases can be of the charge or (pseudo)spin density wave type, or…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-10 Miguel A. N. Araújo , Linhu Li

Materials where the electronic bands have unusual topologies allow for the realization of novel physics and have a wide range of potential applications. When two electronic bands with linear dispersions intersect at a point, the excitations…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-27 C. Y. Guo , C. Cao , M. Smidman , F. Wu , Y. J. Zhang , F. Steglich , F. C. Zhang , H. Q. Yuan

Three-dimensional Dirac and Weyl semimetals have attracted widespread interest in condensed matter physics and material science. Here, based on first-principles calculations and symmetry analysis, we report that Ag$_2$S with…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-20 Zhenwei Wang , Kaifa Luo , Jianzhou Zhao , Rui Yu

Weyl semimetals have been intensely studied as a three dimensional realization of a Dirac-like excitation spectrum where the conduction bands and valence bands touch at isolated Weyl points in momentum space. Like in graphene, this property…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-22 Tobias Holder , Chia-Wei Huang , Pavel Ostrovsky

The Weyl semimetal surface is modeled by applying the Bogolyubov boundary conditions, in which the quasiparticles have an infinite Dirac mass outside the semimetal. For a Weyl semimetal shaped as a slab of finite thickness, we derive an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-19 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , P. O. Sukhachov

Migdal's theorem plays a central role in the physics of electron-phonon interactions in metals and semiconductors, and has been extensively studied theoretically for parabolic band electronic systems in three-, two-, and one-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-23 Bitan Roy , Jay Deep Sau , S. Das Sarma

The transport properties and electron states in cylinder nanowires of Dirac and Weyl semimetals are studied paying special attention to the structure and properties of the surface Fermi arcs. The latter make the electric charge and current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-24 P. O. Sukhachov , M. V. Rakov , O. M. Teslyk , E. V. Gorbar

We study for the first time the effects of strong short-range electron-electron interactions in generic Rarita--Schwinger--Weyl semimetals hosting spin-3/2 electrons with linear dispersion at a four-fold band crossing point. The emergence…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-30 Igor Boettcher

In contrast to conventional Weyl semimetals in achiral crystals, chiral topological semimetals in chiral crystals exhibit Weyl nodes at time-reversal-invariant momenta. A Fermi surface spin texture with parallel spin-momentum locking in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-08-12 Yingyi Huang

Physicists have discovered a novel topological semimetal, the Weyl semimetal, whose surface features a non-closed Fermi surface while the low energy quasiparticles in the bulk emerge as Weyl fermions. Here they share a brief review of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-08 Shuang Jia , Su-Yang Xu , M. Zahid Hasan