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We explore anomalous high-harmonic generation in a model that realizes a transition from a broken time-reversal symmetry Weyl-semimetal to a semi-Dirac regime, i.e. a gapless semimetal with dispersion that is parabolic in one direction and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-17 Luka Medic , Jernej Mravlje , Anton Ramšak , Tomaž Rejec

We propose a theoretical scheme to realize two-dimensional higher-order Weyl semimetals using a trilayer topological insulator film coupled with a d-wave altermagnet. Our results show that the trilayer topological insulator exhibits…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Lizhou Liu , Qing-Feng Sun , Ying-Tao Zhang

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

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

A monopole harmonic superconductor is a novel topological phase of matter with topologically protected gap nodes that result from the non-trivial Berry phase structure of Cooper pairs. In this work we propose to realize a monopole…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-01-16 Canon Sun , Shu-Ping Lee , Yi Li

Dirac and Weyl semimetals form an ideal platform for testing ideas developed in high energy physics to describe massless relativistic particles. One such quintessentially field-theoretic idea of chiral anomaly already resulted in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 D. I. Pikulin , Anffany Chen , M. Franz

We show that a heavy fermion superconductor UPt_3 is a topological Weyl superconductor with tunable Weyl nodes. Adopting a generic order parameter in the E_2u representation allowed by nonsymmorphic crystal symmetry, we clarify unusual gap…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-11-23 Youichi Yanase

Three-dimensional (3D) topological nodal points, such as Weyl and Dirac nodes have attracted wide-spread interest across multiple disciplines and diverse material systems. Unlike nodal points that contain little structural variations, nodal…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-04 Qinghui Yan , Rongjuan Liu , Zhongbo Yan , Boyuan Liu , Hongsheng Chen , Zhong Wang , Ling Lu

Topological phases can not only be protected by internal symmetries (e.g., time-reversal symmetry), but also by crystalline symmetries, such as reflection or rotation symmetry. Recently a complete topological classification of reflection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-26 Ching-Kai Chiu , Andreas P. Schnyder

We investigate the topological protection of surface states in Weyl and nodal-line semimetals by characterizing them as evanescent states when the band structure is extended to complex momenta. We find in this way a sequence of exceptional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-09 J. Gonzalez , R. A. Molina

Recently discovered Dirac semimetals (DSMs) with two Dirac nodes, such as Na$_{3}$Bi and Cd$_{2}$As$_{3}$, are regarded to carry the $\mathbb{Z}_{2}$ topological charge in addition to the chiral charge. Here, we study the Floquet phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-20 Xiao-Shi Li , Chen Wang , Ming-Xun Deng , Hou-Jian Duan , Pei-Hao Fu , Rui-Qiang Wang , L. Sheng , D. Y. Xing

Dirac semimetals, with their protected Dirac points, present an ideal platform for realizing intrinsic topological superconductivity. In this work, we investigate superconductivity in a two-dimensional, square-lattice nonsymmorphic Dirac…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-03 Xiao-Jiao Wang , Yijie Mo , Zhi Wang , Zhigang Wu , Zhongbo Yan

Topological semimetal phases in two-dimensional (2D) materials have gained widespread interest due to their potential applications in developing nanoscale devices. Despite the prediction of the Dirac/Weyl points in a wide variety of 2D…

Weyl points and line nodes are three-dimensional linear point- and line-degeneracies between two bands. In contrast to Dirac points, which are their two-dimensional analogues, Weyl points are stable in the momentum space and the associated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-29 Ling Lu , Liang Fu , John D. Joannopoulos , Marin Soljačić

Conventional topological superconductors are fully gapped in the bulk but host gapless Majorana modes on their boundaries. We instead focus on a new class of superconductors, second-order topological superconductors, that have gapped,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-11-09 Yuxuan Wang , Mao Lin , Taylor L. Hughes

Recently observed 4{\pi} periodic Andreev bound states in three dimensional Dirac materials are attributed to convnetional superconducting pairing. Our alternative explanation in terms of a novel form of parity breaking pseudo-scalar…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-02-04 Azin Mohajerani , Zahra Faraei , S. Akbar Jafari

Unconventional superconducting states of matter are realized in the presence of strong spin orbit coupling. In particular, non degenerate bands can support odd parity superconductivity with rich topological content. Here we study whether…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-16 Huazhou Wei , Sung-Po Chao , Vivek Aji

We experimentally investigate charge transport through a single planar junction between Cd$_3$As$_2$ Dirac semimetal and a normal Au lead. For non-superconducting bulk Cd$_3$As$_2$ samples, we observe non-Ohmic $dV/dI(V)$ curves, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-02 O. O. Shvetsov , V. D. Esin , A. V. Timonina , N. N. Kolesnikov , E. V. Deviatov

Dirac nodal line semimetals (DNLSs) host relativistic quasiparticles in their one-dimensional (1D) Dirac nodal line (DNL) bands that are protected by certain crystalline symmetries. Their novel low-energy fermion quasiparticle excitations…

Nonunitary superconductivity has attracted renewed interest as a novel gapless phase of matter. In this study, we investigate the superconducting gap structure of nonunitary odd-parity chiral pairing states in a superconductor involving…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-08 Koki Maeno , Yuki Kawaguchi , Yasuhiro Asano , Shingo Kobayashi