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Topological Dirac semimetal is a newly discovered class of materials and has attracted intense attentions. This material can be viewed as a three-dimensional (3D) analogue of graphene and has linear energy dispersion in bulk, leading to a…

Three-dimensional (3D) topological Dirac semimetal is a new kind of material that has a linear energy dispersion in 3D momentum space and can be viewed as an analog of graphene. Extensive efforts have been devoted to the understanding of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-03 Enze Zhang , Yanwen Liu , Weiyi Wang , Cheng Zhang , Peng Zhou , Zhi-Gang Chen , Jin Zou , Faxian Xiu

Cadmium arsenide (Cd3As2) - a time-honored and widely explored material in solid-state physics - has recently attracted considerable attention. This was triggered by a theoretical prediction concerning the presence of 3D symmetry-protected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-10 I. Crassee , R. Sankar , W. -L. Lee , A. Akrap , M. Orlita

We present a magneto-infrared spectroscopy study on a newly identified three-dimensional (3D) Dirac semimetal ZrTe$_5$. We observe clear transitions between Landau levels and their further splitting under magnetic field. Both the sequence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 R. Y. Chen , Z. G. Chen , X. -Y. Song , J. A. Schneeloch , G. D. Gu , F. Wang , N. L. Wang

We study the single-particle spectrum of three-dimensional Weyl semimetals taking into account electron-phonon interactions that are the result of straining the material. We find that a well-defined fermionic excitation appears in addition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-04 E. C. I. van der Wurff , A. Cortijo

The three-dimensional Dirac semimetal is distinct from its two-dimensional counterpart due to its dimensionality and symmetry. Here, we observe that molecule-based quasi-two-dimensional Dirac fermion system, $\alpha$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$I$_3$,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-23 Naoya Tajima , Yoshitaka Kawasugi , Takao Morinari , Ryuhei Oka , Toshio Naito , Reizo Kato

Shortly after the discovery of Weyl semimetals properties related to the topology of their bulk band structure have been observed, e.g. signatures of the chiral anomaly and Fermi arc surface states. These essentially single particle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-29 Maximilian Trescher , Emil J. Bergholtz , Masafumi Udagawa , Johannes Knolle

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

Time-reversal broken Weyl semimetals have attracted much attention recently, but certain aspects of their behavior, including the evolution of their Fermi surface topology and anomalous Hall conductivity with Fermi-level position, have…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-14 Santu Baidya , David Vanderbilt

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…

The Weyl semimetals represent a distinct category of topological materials wherein the low-energy excitations appear as the long-sought Weyl fermions. Exotic transport and optical properties are expected because of the chiral anomaly and…

We study three-dimensional Dirac fermions with weak finite-range scalar potential disorder. We show that even though disorder is perturbatively irrelevant at 3D Dirac points, nonperturbative effects from rare regions give rise to a nonzero…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-06-12 Rahul Nandkishore , David A. Huse , S. L. Sondhi

Weyl semimetals are recently discovered materials supporting emergent relativistic fermions in the vicinity of band-crossing points known as Weyl nodes. The positions of the nodes and the low-energy spectrum depend sensitively on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Alex Westström , Teemu Ojanen

Three-dimensional Weyl and Dirac semimetals can support a chiral-symmetry-breaking, fully gapped, charge-density-wave order even for sufficiently weak repulsive electron-electron interactions, when placed in strong magnetic fields. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-25 Bitan Roy , Jay D. Sau

The surface states of Weyl semi-metals (SM's) consist of disjointed Fermi-arcs. This unusual surface-Fermiology provides a fingerprint of the topological features of the bulk Weyl-phase. Using a combination of semiclassical and numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-22 Andrew C. Potter , Itamar Kimchi , Ashvin Vishwanath

Topological nodal line semimetals, a novel quantum state of materials, possess topologically nontrivial valence and conduction bands that touch at a line near the Fermi level. The exotic band structure can lead to various novel properties,…

The three-dimensional (3D) topological Dirac semimetal is a new topological phase of matter, viewed as the 3D analogy of graphene with a linear dispersion in the 3D momentum space. Here, we report the angular dependent magnetotransport in…

We show that a thin film of Weyl or Dirac semimetal with a strong in-plane magnetic field becomes a novel two-dimensional Fermi liquid with interesting properties. The Fermi surface in this system is strongly anisotropic, which originates…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-24 Daniel Bulmash , Xiao-Liang Qi

Tantalum arsenide is a member of the non-centrosymmetric monopnictides, which are putative Weyl semimetals. In these materials, three-dimensional chiral massless quasiparticles, the so-called Weyl fermions, are predicted to induce novel…

The recent experimental discovery of ${\rm Cd_3 As_2}$ and ${\rm Na_3 Bi}$ Dirac semimetals enables the study of the properties of chiral quasi-particles in three spatial dimensions. As demonstrated by photoemission, Dirac semimetals are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Robert D. Pisarski , Ho-Ung Yee