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Condensed-matter provides attractive platforms to realize exotic particles, originally proposed in high-energy physics. Weyl semimetal (WSM) is a material in which low-energy collective excitations are governed by massless Weyl fermions,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-20 Amar Bharti

The Weyl semimetals represent a distinct category of topological materials wherein the low-energy excitations appear as the long-sought Weyl fermions. Exotic transport and optical properties are expected because of the chiral anomaly and…

Three-dimensional condensed matter incarnations of Weyl fermions generically have a tilted dispersion---in sharp contrast with their elusive high-energy relatives where a tilt is forbidden by Lorentz invariance, and with the low-energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-24 M. Udagawa , E. J. Bergholtz

In 1929, Hermann Weyl derived the massless solutions from the Dirac equation - the relativistic wave equation for electrons. Neutrinos were thought, for decades, to be Weyl fermions until the discovery of the neutrino mass. Moreover, it has…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-31 Ling Lu , Zhiyu Wang , Dexin Ye , Lixin Ran , Liang Fu , John D. Joannopoulos , Marin Soljačić

Weyl fermions are hypothetical two-component massless relativistic particles in three-dimensional (3D) space, proposed by Hermann Weyl in 1929. Their band-crossing points, called 'Weyl points,' carry a topological charge and are therefore…

Dirac and Weyl nodal materials can host low-energy relativistic quasiparticles. Under strong magnetic fields, the topological properties of Dirac/Weyl materials can directly manifest through quantum Hall states. However, most Dirac/Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Gang Qiu , Chang Niu , Yixiu Wang , Mengwei Si , Zhuocheng Zhang , Wenzhuo Wu , Peide D. Ye

Weyl type-II fermions are massless quasiparticles that obey the Weyl equation and which are predicted to occur at the boundary between electron- and hole-pockets in certain semi-metals, i.e. the (W,Mo)(Te,P)$_2$ compounds. Here, we present…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-20 R. Schönemann , N. Aryal , Q. Zhou , Y. -C. Chiu , K. -W. Chen , T. J. Martin , G. T. McCandless , J. Y. Chan , E. Manousakis , L. Balicas

The Lorentz-invariance-violating Weyl and Dirac fermions have recently attracted intensive interests as new types of particles beyond high-energy physics, and they demonstrate novel physical phenomena such as angle-dependent chiral anomaly…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-12 Peng-Jie Guo , Huan-Cheng Yang , Kai Liu , Zhong-Yi Lu

Topological materials have been a main focus of studies in the past decade due to their protected properties that can be exploited for the fabrication of new devices. Among them, Weyl semimetals are a class of topological semimetals with…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-05 Davide Grassano , Luca Binci , Nicola Marzari

The recent discovery of Weyl fermions in solids enables exploitation of relativistic physics and development of a spectrum of intriguing physical phenomena. They are constituted of pairs of Weyl points with two-fold band degeneracy, which…

Weyl Fermions (WFs) in the type-II Weyl Semimetal (WSM) WTe$_2$ are difficult to resolve experimentally because the Weyl bands disperse in an extremely narrow region of the (E-k) space. Here, by using DFT-assisted high-resolution $^{125}$Te…

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

Topological Weyl semimetals (TWS) can be classified as type-I TWS, in which the density of states vanishes at the Weyl nodes, and type-II TWS where an electron and a hole pocket meet with finite density of states at the nodal energy. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-01 Timothy M. McCormick , Itamar Kimchi , Nandini Trivedi

It has recently been proposed that electronic band structures in crystals give rise to a previously overlooked type of Weyl fermion, which violates Lorentz invariance and, consequently, is forbidden in particle physics. It was further…

Novel quasi two dimensional typically layered semimetals offer a unique opportunity to control the density and even the topology of the electronic matter. In intercalated MoTe2 type II Weyl semimetal the tilt of the dispersion relation…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-23 Baruh Rosenstein , B. Ya. Shapiro

Topological Weyl semimetal (TWS), a new state of quantum matter, has sparked enormous research interest recently. Possessing unique Weyl fermions in the bulk and Fermi arcs on the surface, TWSs offer a rare platform for realizing many…

Lorentz-violating type-II Weyl fermions, which were missed in Weyl's prediction of nowadays classified type-I Weyl fermions in quantum field theory, have recently been proposed in condensed matter systems. The semimetals hosting type-II…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-28 Zhaoju Yang , Baile Zhang

Weyl fermions, which are fermions with definite chiralities, can give rise to anomalous breaking of the symmetry of the physical system which they are a part of. In their (3+1)-dimensional realizations in condensed matter systems, i.e., the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-17 Jimmy A. Hutasoit , Jiadong Zang , Radu Roiban , Chao-Xing Liu

Weyl semimetals are a class of materials that can be regarded as three-dimensional analogs of graphene breaking time reversal or inversion symmetry. Electrons in a Weyl semimetal behave as Weyl fermions, which have many exotic properties,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-08-05 B. Q. Lv , H. M. Weng , B. B. Fu , X. P. Wang , H. Miao , J. Ma , P. Richard , X. C. Huang , L. X. Zhao , G. F. Chen , Z. Fang , X. Dai , T. Qian , H. Ding

Weyl fermions are one of the simplest objects that link ideas in geometry and topology to highenergy physics and condensed matter physics. Although the existence of Weyl fermions as elementary particles remains dubious, there is mounting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-05 Azaz Ahmad , Gautham Varma K. , Gargee Sharma