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The motion of electron wave packets in the Dirac semimetals A$_3$Bi (A=Na,K,Rb) is studied in a semiclassical approximation. Because of the two-fold degeneracy of the Dirac points and a momentum-dependent gap term in the low-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-03 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , P. O. Sukhachov

We consider the classical magnetoresistance of a Weyl metal in which the electron Fermi surface possess nonzero fluxes of the Berry curvature. Such a system may exhibit large negative magnetoresistance with unusual anisotropy as a function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-06 D. T. Son , B. Z. Spivak

Recently the possibility of achieving one-way backscatter immune transportation of light by mimicking the topological order present within certain solid state systems, such as topological insulators, has received much attention. Thus far…

The zero gap surface states of a 3D-topological insulator host Dirac fermions with spin locked to the momentum. The gap-less Dirac fermions exhibit electronic behaviour different from those predicted in conventional materials. While…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-17 Parijat Sengupta , Gerhard Klimeck , Enrico Bellotti

Chirality is a fundamental feature in all domains of nature, ranging from particle physics over electromagnetism to chemistry and biology. Chiral objects lack a mirror plane and inversion symmetry and therefore cannot be spatially aligned…

We theoretically show that moderate interaction between electrons confined to move in a plane and localized magnetic moments leads to formation of a noncoplanar magnetic state. The state is similar to the skyrmion crystal recently observed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 D. Solenov , D. Mozyrsky , I. Martin

In non-Hermitian band structures, exceptional points generically form gapless lines or loops that give rise to extensively many defective eigenstates. In this work, we investigate how they nontrivially contribute to higher-order nonlinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-13 Fang Qin , Ruizhe Shen , Ching Hua Lee

The Berry curvature dipole induced by symmetry breaking play a pivotal role in electronic transport properties and nonlinear responses, such as the nonlinear Hall effect and circular photogalvanic effect. The study of the Berry curvature…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-05 Wenzhe Zhou , Dehe Zhang , Guibo Zheng , Yinheng Li , Fangping Ouyang

The nodal points in a Weyl semimetal are generally considered as the causes of the chiral anomaly and the chiral magnetic effect (CME). Employing a linear-response analysis of a two-band lattice model, we show that the Weyl nodes and thus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-10 Ming-Che Chang , Min-Fong Yang

The emergent Weyl modes with the broken time-reversal symmetry or inversion symmetry provide large Berry curvature and chirality to carriers, offering the realistic platforms to explore topology of electrons in three-dimensional systems.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Jingyuan Zhong , Jianfeng Wang , Ming Yang , Jie Liu , Zhizhen Ren , Anping Huang , Zhixiang Shi , Zengwei Zhu , Yan Shi , Weichang Hao , Jincheng Zhuang , Yi Du

The over-tilting of Dirac cones has led to various fascinating quantum phenomena. Here we find that two anomalous acoustic plasmons (AAPs) are dictated by the distinct geometry of two-dimensional (2D) type-II Dirac cones, far beyond the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Chang-Xu Yan , Furu Zhang , Chao-Yang Tan , Hao-Ran Chang , Jianhui Zhou , Yugui Yao

Light is one of the most powerful and precise tools allowing us to control, shape and create new phases of matter. In this task, the magnetic component of a light wave has so far played a unique role in defining the wave's helicity, but its…

Chirality is an intriguing property of certain molecules, materials or artificial nanostructures, which allows them to interact with the spin angular momentum of the impinging light field. Due to their chiral geometry, they can distinguish…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-03 Peter Banzer , Pawel Wozniak , Uwe Mick , Israel De Leon , Robert W. Boyd

We investigate the emergence of a topological magnon phase in a two-dimensional kagome ferromagnet with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) and scalar spin chirality. By incorporating a chiral interaction term proportional to the scalar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Seif Alwan , Jonas Fransson

The collective plasmonic modes of a metal comprise a pattern of charge density and tightly-bound electric fields that oscillate in lock-step to yield enhanced light-matter interaction. Here we show that metals with non-zero Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 Li-kun Shi , Justin C. W. Song

Weyl semimetals are one kind of three-dimensional gapless semimetal with nontrivial topology in the momentum space. The chiral anomaly in Weyl semimetals manifests as a charge imbalance between the Weyl nodes of opposite chiralities induced…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-01-19 Jianhui Zhou , Hao-Ran Chang , Di Xiao

Chiral fields with large optical chirality are very important in chiral molecules analysis, sensing and other measurements. Plasmonic nanostructures have been proposed to realize such super chiral fields for enhancing weak chiral signals.…

Optics · Physics 2015-09-14 Xiaorui Tian , Yurui Fang , Mengtao Sun

Multifold fermions are generalizations of two-fold degenerate Weyl fermions with three-, four-, six- or eight-fold degeneracies protected by crystal symmetries, of which only the last type is necessarily non-chiral. Their low energy degrees…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 Felix Flicker , Fernando de Juan , Barry Bradlyn , Takahiro Morimoto , Maia G. Vergniory , Adolfo G. Grushin

Recent experiments have demonstrated interesting physics in a family of two-dimensional (2D) composition-tunable materials Nb$_{2n+1}$Si$_n$Te$_{4n+2}$. Here, we show that owing to its intrinsic low symmetry, metallic nature, tunable…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-24 Yiwei Zhao , Jin Cao , Zeying Zhang , Si Li , Yan Li , Fei Ma , Shengyuan A. Yang

Dirac and Weyl materials possess chiral fermions, which are characterized by nontrivial topology and large Berry curvature. Chiral fermions have nontrivial interactions with magnetic fields and light. In this work, we propose three…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Sahal Kaushik