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We formulate a field-theoretic description for $d$-dimensional interacting nodal semimetals, featuring dispersion that scales with the linear and $n$th power of momentum along $d_L$ and $d_M$ mutually orthogonal directions around a few…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-02 Gabriel Malave , Rodrigo Soto-Garrido , Vladimir Juricic , Bitan Roy

We study the effects of disorder and Coulomb interactions on the physics of three-dimensional type-I Weyl fermions with tilted and anisotropic dispersions in a renormalization group approach. To lowest non-trivial loop order we show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 T. S. Sikkenk , Lars Fritz

Motivated by recent developments in twisted bilayer graphene moir\'e superlattices, we investigate the effects of electron-electron interactions in a honeycomb lattice with an applied periodic potential using a finite-temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-28 Robert E. Throckmorton , S. Das Sarma

Magnetic topological semimetals (TSMs) allow for an effective control of the topological electronic states by tuning the spin configuration, and therefore are promising materials for next-generation electronic and spintronic applications.…

We theoretically investigate ferromagnetic ordering in magnetically doped solid-solution narrow-gap semiconductors with the strong spin-orbit interaction such as Cr-doped Bi$_2$(Se$_x$Te$_{1-x}$)$_3$. We compute the spontaneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 Daichi Kurebayashi , Kentaro Nomura

Weyl semimetals are prominent examples of topologically protected quantum matter. These materials are the three-dimensional counterparts of graphene and great efforts are being devoted to achieve a thorough understanding of their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-05 A. Díaz-Fernández , F. Domínguez-Adame , O. de Abril

We study the long-range Coulomb interaction effects on the double-Weyl fermion system which is possibly realized in the three dimensional semimetal HgCr$_2$Se$_4$ in the ferromagnetic phase. Within the one-loop renormalization group…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-22 Hsin-Hua Lai

We propose a realization of the Weyl semimetal phase that is invariant under time reversal and occurs due to broken inversion symmetry. We consider both a simple superlattice model and a more realistic tight-binding model describing an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-28 Gábor B. Halász , Leon Balents

Based on irreducible representations (or symmetry eigenvalues) and compatibility relations, a material can be predicted to be a topological/trivial insulator [satisfying compatibility relations] or a topological semimetal [violating…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-23 Jiacheng Gao , Yuting Qian , Simin Nie , Zhong Fang , Hongming Weng , Zhijun Wang

Topological physics and strong electron-electron correlations in quantum materials are typically studied independently. However, there have been rapid recent developments in quantum materials in which topological phase transitions emerge…

Highly unconventional behavior of the thermodynamic response functions has been experimentally observed in a narrow gap semiconductor samarium hexaboride. Motivated by these observations, we use renormalization group technique to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-21 Suman Raj Panday , Maxim Dzero

The nodal and effectively relativistic dispersion featuring in a range of novel materials including two- dimensional graphene and three-dimensional Dirac and Weyl semimetals has attracted enormous interest during the past decade. Here, by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-11 Johan Carlström , Emil J. Bergholtz

In disordered Weyl semimetals, mechanisms of topological origin lead to novel mechanisms of transport, which manifest themselves in unconventional types of electromagnetic response. Prominent examples of transport phenomena particular to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-10 Alexander Altland , Dmitry Bagrets

Weyl and Dirac (semi)metals in three dimensions have robust gapless electronic band structures. Their massless single-body energy spectra are protected by symmetries such as lattice translation, (screw) rotation and time reversal. In this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-06 Syed Raza , Alexander Sirota , Jeffrey C. Y. Teo

Effective relativistic field theory models capable of realizing various gapless topological states are presented in this work. We study the topological phase transitions of the Weyl and nodal line semimetal states in effective field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Xuanting Ji , Ya-Wen Sun

Optical lattices are known for their flexibility to emulate condensed matter physics and beyond. Based on an early theoretical proposal [Science Bulletin 65, 2080 (2020)], a recent experiment published by Wang et al. [Science 372, 271…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-07-01 Xiaopeng Li , W. Vincent Liu

We study Weyl semimetals in the presence of generic disorder, consisting of a random vector potential as well as a random scalar potential. We derive renormalization group flow equations to second order in the disorder strength. These flow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-14 Björn Sbierski , Kevin S. C. Decker , Piet W. Brouwer

Internodal dynamics of quasiparticles in Weyl semimetals manifest themselves in hydrodynamic, transport and thermodynamic phenomena and are essential for potential valleytronic applications of these systems. In an external magnetic field,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-19 G. Bednik , K. S. Tikhonov , S. V. Syzranov

The low-energy quasiparticles of Weyl semimetals are a condensed-matter realization of the Weyl fermions introduced in relativistic field theory. Chiral anomaly, the nonconservation of the chiral charge under parallel electric and magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-29 Pilkwang Kim , Ji Hoon Ryoo , Cheol-Hwan Park

Two-dimensional Weyl superconductor is the most elusive member of a group of materials with Weyl fermions as low-energy excitations. Here, we propose to realize this state in a heterostructure consisting of thin films of half-metal and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-02-24 Lei Hao , C. S. Ting