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Weyl quasiparticles, as gapless low-energy excitations with nontrivial chirality, have garnered extensive interest in recent years. However, archieving effective and reversible control over their chirality (topological charge) remains a…
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Large intrinsic anomalous Hall effect (AHE) originating in the Berry curvature has attracted growing attention for potential applications. Recently proposed magnetic Weyl semimetal EuCd$_2$Sb$_{\mathrm{2}}$ provides an excellent platform…
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We study the effects of tunnelling on the band structure and Fermi arc of a time-reversal broken Weyl semimetal (WSM). When coupled to a non-magnetic parabolic band, the WSM's chiral arc state lowers in energy and forms, together with a…
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Recent reports of a large anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in ferromagnetic Weyl semimetals (FM WSM) have led to a resurgence of interest in this enigmatic phenomenon. However, due to a lack of tunable materials, the interplay between the…
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