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The surface of a Weyl semimetal famously hosts an exotic topological metal that contains open Fermi arcs rather than closed Fermi surfaces. In this work, we show that the surface is also endowed with a feature normally associated with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-20 Osakpolor Eki Obakpolor , Pavan Hosur

Bulk-surface correspondence in Weyl semimetals assures the formation of topological "Fermi-arc" surface bands whose existence is guaranteed by bulk Weyl nodes. By investigating three distinct surface terminations of the ferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-23 Noam Morali , Rajib Batabyal , Pranab Kumar Nag , Enke Liu , Qiunan Xu , Yan Sun , Binghai Yan , Claudia Felser , Nurit Avraham , Haim Beidenkopf

Using semiclassics to surmount the hurdle of bulk-surface inseparability, we derive the superconductor vortex spectrum in non-magnetic Weyl semimetals and show that it stems from the Berry phase of orbits made of Fermi arcs on opposite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-18 Rauf Giwa , Pavan Hosur

A Weyl semimetal hosts low-energy chiral surface states, which appear to connect a pair of Weyl nodes in reciprocal space. As these chiral surface states propagate in a given direction, a spontaneous circulating current is expected to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-20 Yositake Takane

We investigate the surface electronic structures of polar 1T'-MoTe2, the Weyl semimetal candidate realized through the nonpolar-polar structural phase transition, by utilizing the laser angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES)…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-08 M. Sakano , M. S. Bahramy , H. Tsuji , I. Araya , K. Ikeura , H. Sakai , S. Ishiwata , K. Yaji , K. Kuroda , A. Harasawa , S. Shin , K. Ishizaka

We study the impact of spin-orbit coupling on the topological band-properties of copper-substituted lead phosphate apatite using a combination of group-theoretical analysis and full-relativistic density-functional theory calculations. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-17 Martin Braß , Liang Si , Karten Held

A Weyl semimetal wire with an axial magnetization has metallic surface states (Fermi arcs) winding along its perimeter, connecting bulk Weyl cones of opposite topological charge (Berry curvature). We investigate what happens to this "Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-23 P. Baireuther , J. Tworzydło , M. Breitkreiz , I. Adagideli , C. W. J. Beenakker

We study the effect of a non-Abelian SU(2) gauge potential on the topological semimetal induced by a magnetic field having {\pi}-flux per plaquette and acting on fermions in a cubic lattice. The Abelian {\pi}-flux term gives rise to a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-06-30 Luca Lepori , Ion Cosma Fulga , Andrea Trombettoni , Michele Burrello

Following the intense studies on topological insulators, significant efforts have recently been devoted to the search for gapless topological systems. These materials not only broaden the topological classification of matter but also…

It is necessary to study the properties of Weyl semimetal nanostructures for potential applications in nanoelectronics. Here we study the Weyl semimetal quantum dot with a most simple model Hamiltonian with only two Weyl points. We focus on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-13 Zhang Shu-feng , Zhang Chang-wen , Wang Pei-ji , Sun Qing-feng

The recent experimental discovery of a Weyl semimetal in TaAs provides the first observation of a Weyl fermion in nature and demonstrates a novel type of anomalous surface state band structure, consisting of Fermi arcs. So far, work has…

Band inversions are key to stabilising a variety of novel electronic states in solids, from topological surface states in inverted bulk band gaps of topological insulators to the formation of symmetry-protected three-dimensional Dirac and…

Weyl points and line nodes are three-dimensional linear point- and line-degeneracies between two bands. In contrast to Dirac points, which are their two-dimensional analogues, Weyl points are stable in the momentum space and the associated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-29 Ling Lu , Liang Fu , John D. Joannopoulos , Marin Soljačić

We study the effects of disorder on semi-infinite Weyl and Dirac semimetals where the presence of a boundary leads to the formation of either Fermi arcs/rays or Dirac surface states. Using a local version of the self-consistent Born…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Eric Brillaux , Andrei A. Fedorenko

Weyl semimetals constitute a newly discovered class of three-dimensional topological materials with linear touchings of valence and conduction bands in the bulk. The most striking property of topological origin in these materials, so far…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 Stefanos Kourtis , Jian Li , Zhijun Wang , Ali Yazdani , B. Andrei Bernevig

Weyl semimetals are extraordinary systems where exotic phenomena such as Fermi arcs, pseudo-gauge fields and quantum anomalies arise from topological band degeneracy in crystalline solids for electrons and metamaterials for photons and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Li Luo , Hai-Xiao Wang , Bin Jiang , Ying Wu , Zhi-Kang Lin , Feng Li , Jian-Hua Jiang

Weyl semimetals are gapless three-dimensional topological materials where two bands touch at an even number of points in the bulk Brillouin zone. These semimetals exhibit topologically protected surface Fermi arcs, which pairwise connect…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-26 F. Lambert , A. P. Schnyder , R. Moessner , I. Eremin

Graphene, topological insulators, and Weyl semimetals are three widely studied materials classes which possess Dirac or Weyl cones arising from either sublattice symmetry or spin-orbit coupling. In this work, we present a theory of a new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-21 Kapildeb Dolui , Tanmoy Das

Distinct to type-I Weyl semimetals (WSMs) that host quasiparticles described by the Weyl equation, the energy dispersion of quasiparticles in type-II WSMs violates Lorentz invariance and the Weyl cones in the momentum space are tilted.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-07 M. -Y. Yao , N. Xu , Q. Wu , G. Autès , N. Kumar , V. N. Strocov , N. C. Plumb , M. Radovic , O. V. Yazyev , C. Felser , J. Mesot , M. Shi

Quantum materials governed by emergent topological fermions have become a cornerstone of physics. Dirac fermions in graphene form the basis for moir\'e quantum matter, and Dirac fermions in magnetic topological insulators enabled the…