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We introduce superconducting proximity effects in Weyl semi-metals (WSM) with broken time reversal symmetry by tunnel coupling one of its surfaces to an s-wave superconductor using the Green's function approach. We find that the band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-09 Udit Khanna , Arijit Kundu , Saurabh Pradhan , Sumathi Rao

In this work, we investigate the interior structure of a holographic multi-band superconductor with the coexistence of s-wave and p-wave order parameters. Especially, we investigate the singularity structure of this multi-band model.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-25 Xing-Kun Zhang , Xin Zhao , Zhang-Yu Nie , Ya-Peng Hu , Yu-Sen An

We present systematic theoretical studies of both bulk and surface electromagnetic eigenmodes, or polaritons, in Weyl semimetals. We derive the tensors of bulk and surface conductivity taking into account all possible combinations of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Qianfan Chen , A. Ryan Kutayiah , Ivan Oladyshkin , Mikhail Tokman , Alexey Belyanin

Hopf insulators represent an exceptional class of topological matter unanticipated by the periodic table of topological invariants. These systems point to the existence of previously unexplored states of matter with unconventional topology.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-19 Konstantinos Ladovrechis , Shouvik Sur

We investigate the phase transitions of holographic p-wave superconductors in (4+1)-dimensional Einstein-Yang-Mills-Gauss-Bonnet theories, in a grand canonical ensemble. Turning on the back-reaction of the Yang-Mills field, it is found that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Rong-Gen Cai , Zhang-Yu Nie , Hai-Qing Zhang

We study a holographic model which exhibits a quantum phase transition from the strongly interacting Weyl semimetal phase to an insulating phase. In the holographic insulating phase there is a hard gap in the real part of frequency…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-30 Yan Liu , Junkun Zhao

We calculate the holographic central charges for general higher curvature gravity theory dual to eight dimensional CFT. To do this, we first elaborate the general form of Weyl anomaly in 8d CFT and find 11 non-trivial linearly independent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-22 Fei-Yu Chen , H. Lu

Topological superconductors have become a subject of intense research due to their potential use for technical applications in device fabrication and quantum information. Besides fully gapped superconductors, unconventional superconductors…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-26 Andreas P. Schnyder , P. M. R. Brydon

We calculate the Weyl anomaly for conformal field theories that can be described via the adS/CFT correspondence. This entails regularizing the gravitational part of the corresponding supergravity action in a manner consistent with general…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Mans Henningson , Kostas Skenderis

Helicons are transverse electromagnetic modes in three dimension(3D) electron systems in the presence of a static magnetic field. This modes have been proposed in isotropic or single Weyl semimetals(sWSMs) (Francesco M.D. Pellegrino et al,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-23 Shiv Kumar Ram , Amit Gupta

Semiconductor heterostructures are the fundamental platform for many important device applications such as lasers, light-emitting diodes, solar cells and high-electron-mobility transistors. Analogous to traditional heterostructures, layered…

We find a series of topological phase transitions in a half-metal/superconductor heterostructure, by tuning the direction of the magnetization of the half-metal film. These include transitions between a topological superconducting phase…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-10-18 Lei Hao , C. S. Ting

We study the behavior of fermion spectral functions for the holographic topological Weyl and nodal line semimetals. We calculate the topological invariants from the Green functions of both holographic semimetals using the topological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-19 Yan Liu , Ya-Wen Sun

The associate production of Higgs bosons with W or Z bosons, known as Higgs-strahlung, is an important search channel for Higgs bosons at the hadron colliders Tevatron and LHC for low Higgs-boson masses. We refine a previous calculation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Denner , S. Dittmaier , S. Kallweit , A. Mück

Heterostructures of van der Waals bonded layered materials offer unique means to tailor dielectric screening with atomic-layer precision, opening a fertile field of fundamental research. The optical analyses used so far have relied on…

We use gauge/gravity duality to explore strongly coupled superconductors with dynamical exponent $z=2$. In the probe limit we numerically establish background solutions for the matter fields and plot the condensate versus the dimensionless…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-11-02 Yanyan Bu

We study the electromagnetic properties of Weyl semimetals with strong interactions. Focusing on a single Weyl cone in the band structure, we induce strong interactions by coupling the Weyl fermion with a tunable coupling constant $g_f$ to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-11 V. P. J. Jacobs , Panagiotis Betzios , Umut Gursoy , H. T. C. Stoof

We study the effective symmetry profiles of superconducting pair correlations and the flow of charge supercurrent in ballistic Weyl semimetal systems with a tilted dispersion relation. Utilizing a microscopic method in the ballistic regime…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-01-15 Mohammad Alidoust , Klaus Halterman

We revisit the calculation of gravitational radiation through the use of Weyl scalars. We point out several possible problems arising from gauge and tetrad ambiguities and ways to address them. Our analysis indicates how, relatively simple…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Luis Lehner , Osvaldo M. Moreschi

We briefly report on the inclusion of NLO QCD and electroweak corrections to the Higgs-strahlung processes pp/ppbar -> HW/Z -> H+2leptons in the Monte Carlo program HAWK. The electroweak corrections, which are at the level of -(5-10)% for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-12-23 Ansgar Denner , Stefan Dittmaier , Stefan Kallweit , Alexander Muck