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The Nielsen--Ninomiya theorem requires that the total topological chiral charges in a crystal vanish, a constraint typically satisfied by identical nodes like Weyl--Weyl pairs. Whether a minimal heterogeneous configuration -- comprising a…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-19 Hui-Jing Zheng , Ke-Xin Pang , Yun-Yun Bai , Yanfeng Ge , Yan Gao

We develop a systematic Hamiltonian formulation of minimally doubled lattice fermions in (3+1) dimensions, derive their nodal structures (structures of zeros), and classify their symmetry patterns for both four-component Dirac and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-04-29 Tatsuhiro Misumi

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

In recent years there has been a great interest in topological photonics and protected edge states. Here, we present a first principles method to compute topological invariants of three-dimensional gapless phases. Our approach allows to…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-30 G. R. Fonseca , F. R. Prudêncio , M. G. Silveirinha , P. A. Huidobro

In this letter, we report the presence of novel type of plasmon Weyl points in a naturally existing material - magnetized plasma. In such a medium, conventional, purely longitudinal bulk plasma oscillations exists only along the direction…

Topological semimetals, representing a new topological phase that lacks a full bandgap in bulk states and exhibiting nontrivial topological orders, recently have been extended to photonic systems, predominantly in photonic crystals and to a…

Higher-order topology yields intriguing multidimensional topological phenomena, while Weyl semimetals have unconventional properties such as chiral anomaly. However, so far, Weyl physics remain disconnected with higher-order topology. Here,…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-07 Hai-Xiao Wang , Zhi-Kang Lin , Bin Jiang , Guang-Yu Guo , Jian-Hua Jiang

Weyl and Dirac relativistic fermions are ubiquitous in topological matter. Their relativistic character enables high energy physics phenomena like the chiral anomaly to occur in solid state, which allows to experimentally probe and explore…

Weyl fermions can arise from time-reversal symmetry-breaking magnetism, but their impact on magnetic order is a source of ongoing research. Using high-precision neutron diffraction and spectroscopy, we present a comprehensive exploration of…

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

In the fermionic systems with topologically stable Fermi points the emergent two - component Weyl fermions appear. We propose the topological classification of these fermions based on the two invariants composed of the two - component Green…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 M. A. Zubkov

Unconventional Weyl points with topological charges higher than 1 can transform into various complex unconventional Weyl exceptional contours under non-Hermitian perturbations. However, theoretical studies of these exceptional contours have…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-08-03 Qinghui Yan , Qiaolu Chen , Li Zhang , Rui Xi , Hongsheng Chen , Yihao Yang

It has been known for many years that the measured mass-square of neutrino is probably negative. For solving this puzzle, we have further investigated the hypothesis that neutrinos are superluminal fermions. A new Dirac-type equation is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Tsao Chang , Guangjiong Ni

Inter-band effects of magnetic field on orbital magnetic susceptibility and Hall effect in weak magnetic field have been studied theoretically at absolute zero for the model of massless Fermions in two dimension described by Weyl equation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Fukuyama

Classical topological phases derived from point degeneracies in photonic bandstructures show intriguing and unique behaviour. Previously identified exceptional points are based on accidental degeneracies and subject to engineering on a…

Optics · Physics 2017-12-06 Matthias Saba , Joachim M. Hamm , Jeremy J. Baumberg , Ortwin Hess

The discovery of topological quantum materials represents a striking innovation in modern condensed matter physics with remarkable fundamental and technological implications. Their classification has been recently extended to topological…

In the first attempt to introduce gauge theories in physics, Hermann Weyl, around the 1920s, proposed certain scale transformations to be a fundamental symmetry of nature. Despite the intense use of Weyl symmetry that has been made over the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-10 Alfredo Iorio

In this work we show that Weyl particles can exist at different states in zero electromagnetic field, either as free particles, or at localized states described by a parameter with dimensions of mass. We also calculate the electromagnetic…

The discovery of relativistic spin-1/2 fermions such as Dirac and Weyl fermions in condensed-matter or artificial systems opens a new era in modern physics. An interesting but rarely explored question is whether other relativistic spinal…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-12-05 Yan-Qing Zhu , Dan-Wei Zhang , Hui Yan , Ding-Yu Xing , Shi-Liang Zhu

The disjointed Fermi-arcs in Weyl semimetals can intertwine with chiral bulk modes and participate in unusual closed magnetic orbits in the presence of a vertical magnetic field. Here we carry out the quantum oscillation study of such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Guolin Zheng , Min Wu , Hongwei Zhang , Weiwei Chu , Wenshuai Gao , Jianwen Lu , Yuyan Han , Jiyong Yang , Haifeng Du , Wei Ning , Yuheng Zhang , Mingliang Tian