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Based on $ab$ $initio$ calculations and low-energy effective $k{\cdot}p$ model, we propose a type of Weyl nodal point-line fermion, composed of 0D Weyl points and 1D Weyl nodal line, in ferromagnetic material Eu$_5$Bi$_3$. In the absence of…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-13 Hongbo Wu , Da-Shuai Ma , Botao Fu , Wei Guo , Yugui Yao

We study the electronic properties of strongly spin-orbit coupled electrons on the elastic pyrochlore lattice. Akin to the Peierls transition in one-dimensional systems, the coupling of the lattice to the electronic degrees of freedom can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-16 Tomáš Bzdušek , Andreas Rüegg , Manfred Sigrist

Nonsymmoprhic symmetries, such as screw rotations or glide reflections, can enforce band crossings within high-symmetry lines or planes of the Brillouin zone. When these band degeneracies are close to the Fermi energy, they can give rise to…

Dirac semi-metals show a linear electronic dispersion in three dimension described by two copies of the Weyl equation, a theoretical description of massless relativistic fermions. At the surface of a crystal, the breakdown of fermion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-25 Philip J. W. Moll , Nityan L. Nair , Tony Helm , Andrew C. Potter , Itamar Kimchi , Ashvin Vishwanath , James G. Analytis

The topological nature of Weyl semimetals (WSMs) is corroborated by the presence of chiral surface states, which connect the projections of the bulk Weyl points by Fermi arcs (FAs). We study a bilayer structure realized by introducing a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Paolo Michetti , Carsten Timm

We study dispersions of Fermi arcs in the Weyl semimetal phase by constructing a simple effective model. We calculate how the surface Fermi-arc dispersions for the top- and bottom surfaces merge into the bulk Dirac cones in the Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-30 Ryo Okugawa , Shuichi Murakami

Weyl semimetals host topologically protected surface states, the so-called Fermi arcs, that have a penetration depth into the bulk that depends on surface-momentum, and diverges at the Weyl points. It has recently been observed in PtBi$_2$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-12 Mattia Trama , Viktor Könye , Ion Cosma Fulga , Jeroen van den Brink

In this review we discuss a wide range of topological properties of electron quasiparticles in Dirac and Weyl semimetals. Their nontrivial topology is quantified by a monopole-like Berry curvature in the vicinity of Weyl nodes, as well as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-26 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , P. O. Sukhachov

Three dimensional Weyl semimetals exhibit open Fermi arcs on their sample surfaces connecting the projection of bulk Weyl points of opposite chirality. The canonical interpretation of these surfaces states is in terms of chiral edge modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 Valerio Peri , Sebastian D. Huber

Coexistence of surface superconductivity and Fermi arcs in trigonal $\gamma$-PtBi$_2$ has recently attracted attention for possible realization of topological superconductivity. The Fermi arcs on the two different (0001) surface…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-09 Lin-Lin Wang

Weyl semimetals in three-dimensional crystals provide the paradigm example of topologically protected band nodes. It is usually taken for granted that a pair of colliding Weyl points annihilate whenever they carry opposite chiral charge. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 Adrien Bouhon , QuanSheng Wu , Robert-Jan Slager , Hongming Weng , Oleg V. Yazyev , Tomáš Bzdušek

Introducing both Berry curvature and chiral anomaly into Landau's Fermi-liquid theory, we construct a topological Fermi-liquid theory, applicable to interacting Weyl metals in the absence of time reversal symmetry. Following the Landau's…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-05-12 Yong-Soo Jho , Jae-Ho Han , Ki-Seok Kim

Weyl semimetals display a novel topological phase of matter where the Weyl nodes emerge in pairs of opposite chirality and can be seen as either a source or a sink of Berry curvature. The exotic effects in Weyl semimetals, such as surface…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-02 Davide Iaia , Guoqing Chang , Tay-Rong Chang , Jin Hu , Zhiqiang Mao , Hsin Lin , Shichao Yan , Vidya Madhavan

A Weyl semimetal possesses spin-polarized band-crossings, called Weyl nodes, connected by topological surface arcs. The low-energy excitations near the crossing points behave the same as massless Weyl fermions, leading to exotic properties…

Magnetic topological materials have recently drawn significant importance and interest, due to their topologically nontrivial electronic structure within spontaneous magnetic moments and band inversion. Based on first-principles…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-20 R. Wang , Y. J. Jin , J. Z. Zhao , Z. J. Chen , Y. J. Zhao , H. Xu

We review the differential topology underlying the topological protection of energy band crossings in Weyl semimetals, and how they lead to the experimental signature of surface Fermi arcs.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-12-24 Guo Chuan Thiang

Fermi arcs, i.e., surface states connecting topologically-distinct Weyl points, represent a paradigmatic manifestation of the topological aspects of Weyl physics. Here, we investigate a light-matter interface based on the photonic…

We predict a novel metallic state of matter that emerges in a Weyl-semimetal superstructure with spatially varying Weyl-node positions. In the new state, the Weyl nodes are stretched into extended, anisotropic Fermi surfaces, which can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-15 Maxim Breitkreiz , Piet W. Brouwer

The hallmark of Weyl semimetals is the existence of open constant-energy contours on their surface -- the so-called Fermi arcs -- connecting Weyl points. Here, we show that for time-reversal symmetric realizations of Weyl semimetals these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-21 Alexander Lau , Klaus Koepernik , Jeroen van den Brink , Carmine Ortix

Weyl fermions have not been found in nature as elementary particles, but they emerge as nodal points in the band structure of electronic and classical wave crystals. Novel phenomena such as Fermi arcs and chiral anomaly have fueled the…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-22 Qiang Wang , Meng Xiao , Hui Liu , Shining Zhu , C. T. Chan