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Recently, intense efforts have been devoted to realizing classical analogues of various topological phases of matter. In this Letter, we explore the intriguing Weyl physics by a simple one-dimensional sonic crystal, in which two extra…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Xiying Fan , Chunyin Qiu , Yuanyuan Shen , Hailong He , Meng Xiao , Manzhu Ke , Zhengyou Liu

Topological semimetals are some of the topological phases of matter most intensely-studied experimentally. The Weyl semimetal phase, in particular, has garned tremendous, sustained interest given fascinating signatures such as the Fermi arc…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Adipta Pal , Ashley M. Cook

Topological semimetals are gapless states of matter which have robust and unique electromagnetic responses and surface states. In this paper, we consider semimetals which have point like Fermi surfaces in various spatial dimensions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 Srinidhi T. Ramamurthy , Taylor L. Hughes

Topological semimetals, such as Dirac, Weyl, or line-node semimetals, are gapless states of matter characterized by their nodal band structures and surface states. In this work, we consider layered (topologically trivial) insulating systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-12 Saavanth Velury , Taylor L. Hughes

Following the discovery of topological insulators (TIs), topological Dirac/Weyl semimetal has attracted much recent interest. A prevailing mechanism for the formation of Weyl points is by breaking time-reversal symmetry (TRS) or spatial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-23 Yinong Zhou , Kyung-Hwan Jin , Huaqing Huang , Zhengfei Wang , Feng Liu

We design and implement a three dimensional acoustic Weyl metamaterial hosting robust modes bound to a one-dimensional topological lattice defect. The modes are related to topological features of the bulk bands, and carry nonzero orbital…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-24 Qiang Wang , Yong Ge , Hong-xiang Sun , Haoran Xue , Ding Jia , Yi-jun Guan , Shou-qi Yuan , Baile Zhang , Yidong Chong

Weyl fermions are massless chiral quasiparticles existing in materials known as Weyl semimetals. Topological surface states, associated with the unusual electronic structure in the Weyl semimetals, have been recently demonstrated in linear…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-18 Ce Shang , Yuanlin Zheng , Boris A. Malomed

We propose two complementary design principles for engineering three-dimensional (3D) Weyl semimetals and superconductors in a layer-by-layer setup which includes even and odd parity orbitals in alternating layers - dubbed orbital selective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-31 Tanmoy Das

There is an immense effort in search for various types of Weyl semimetals, of which the most fundamental phase consists of the minimal number of i.e. two Weyl points, but is hard to engineer in solids. Here we demonstrate how such…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-11-11 Yue-Hui Lu , Bao-Zong Wang , Xiong-Jun Liu

Weyl semimetals are gapless three-dimensional topological materials where two bands touch at even number of points in the Brillouin zone. In this work we study a zincblende lattice model realizing a time-reversal invariant Weyl semimetal.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-10 Teemu Ojanen

Weyl semimetals are gapless quasi-topological materials with a set of isolated nodal points forming their Fermi surface. They manifest their quasi-topological character in a series of topological electromagnetic responses including the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-05 Hassan Shapourian , Taylor L. Hughes

This work reports the general design and characterization of two exotic, anomalous nonequilibrium topological phases. In equilibrium systems, the Weyl nodes or the crossing points of nodal lines may become the transition points between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Weiwei Zhu , Muhammad Umer , Jiangbin Gong

Weyl and Dirac semimetals are three dimensional phases of matter with gapless electronic excitations that are protected by topology and symmetry. As three dimensional analogs of graphene, they have generated much recent interest. Deep…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-31 N. P. Armitage , E. J. Mele , Ashvin Vishwanath

We present a study of "nodal semimetal" phases, in which non-degenerate conduction and valence bands touch at points (the "Weyl semimetal") or lines (the "line node semimetal") in three-dimensional momentum space. We discuss a general…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 A. A. Burkov , M. D. Hook , Leon Balents

A family of topological semimetallic phases where twofold degenerate gapless points form linked rings is introduced. We refer to this phase as Weyl-link semimetals. A concrete two-band model with two linked nodal lines is constructed. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-30 Po-Yao Chang , Chuck-Hou Yee

We introduce (3+1) dimensional models of short-range-interacting electrons that form a strongly correlated many-body state whose low-energy excitations are relativistic neutral fermions coupled to an emergent gauge field, $\text{QED}_{4}$.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-21 Eran Sagi , Ady Stern , David F. Mross

Topological insulators and topological semimetals are both new classes of quantum materials, which are characterized by surface states induced by the topology of the bulk band structure. Topological Dirac or Weyl semimetals show linear…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-06-21 Binghai Yan , Claudia Felser

We propose a scheme to simulate and explore Weyl semimetal physics with ultracold fermionic atoms in a two-dimensional square optical lattice subjected to experimentally realizable spin-orbit coupling and an artificial dimension from an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-07-29 Dan-Wei Zhang , Shi-Liang Zhu , Z. D. Wang

Weyl semimetals are arguably the most paradigmatic form of a gapless topological phase. While the stability of Weyl nodes, as quantified by their topological charge, has been extensively investigated, recent interest has shifted to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Siyu Chen , Adrien Bouhon , Robert-Jan Slager , Bartomeu Monserrat

We investigate multilayer systems of a normal insulator and a Weyl semimetal. We calculate the bulk band structure and determine phase diagrams by changing the thickness of the normal insulator and that of the Weyl semimetal layer using two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 Kazuki Yokomizo , Shuichi Murakami