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Weyl semimetals are predicted to host signature magneto-optical properties sourced by their peculiar Landau level structure, including the chiral level. Analytical studies are often leaving out the Hall component of the conductivity due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-15 Marcus Stålhammar

The equality between the spectral, directional emittance and absorptance of an object under local thermal equilibrium is known as Kirchhoff's law of radiation. The breakdown of Kirchhoff's law of radiation is physically allowed by breaking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-05 Yoichiro Tsurimaki , Xin Qian , Simo Pajovic , Fei Han , Mingda Li , Gang Chen

Weyl semimetals, with their unique electronic band structure, have drawn significant interest for their potential to explore quantum anomalies in condensed matter systems. In this study, we investigate the large positive magneto-thermal…

A novel oscillatory behaviour of the DC conductivity in Weyl semimetals with vacancies has recently been identified, occurring in the absence of external magnetic fields. Here, we argue that this effect has a geometric interpretation in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-09 Giandomenico Palumbo

We solve the Weyl electron scattered by a spherical step potential barrier. Tuning the incident energy and the potential radius, one can enter both quasiclassical and quantum regimes. Transport features related to far-field currents and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-07 Ming Lu , Xiao-Xiao Zhang

Weyl semimetals are examples of a new class of topological states of matter which are gapless in the bulk with protected surface states. Their low energy sector is characterized by massless chiral fermions which are robust against…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-22 Michael Phillips , Vivek Aji

This study presents Fermi-arcs mediated transport in a Weyl semimetal thin slab, interfacing two $s$-wave superconductors. We present detailed study with both time-reversal and inversion symmetry broken Weyl semimetals under grounding,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-29 Rekha Kumari , Dibya Kanti Mukherjee , Arijit Kundu

We present results of a theoretical study of photocurrents in the Weyl semimetals belonging to the gyrotropic symmetry classes. We show that, in weakly gyrotropic symmetry classes C$_{nv}$ ($n = 3,4,6$), the circular photocurrent transverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-10 L. E. Golub , E. L. Ivchenko , B. Z. Spivak

Higher-order topology yields intriguing multidimensional topological phenomena, while Weyl semimetals have unconventional properties such as chiral anomaly. However, so far, Weyl physics remain disconnected with higher-order topology. Here,…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-07 Hai-Xiao Wang , Zhi-Kang Lin , Bin Jiang , Guang-Yu Guo , Jian-Hua Jiang

Weyl semimetals host linear energy dispersions around Weyl nodes, as well as monopoles of Berry curvature in momentum space around these points. These features give rise to unique transport signatures in a Weyl semimetal, such as transverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Robert C. McKay , Timothy M. McCormick , Nandini Trivedi

Multi-Weyl semimetals are a kind of topological phase of matter with discrete Weyl nodes characterized by multiple monopole charges, in which the chiral anomaly, the anomalous nonconservation of an axial current, occurs in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-09 Ze-Min Huang , Jianhui Zhou , Shun-Qing Shen

Currently, there is a flurry of research interest on materials with an unconventional electronic structure, and we have already seen significant progress in their understanding and engineering towards real-life applications. The interest…

Torsion can be realized as dislocation in the crystal lattice of material. It is particularly interesting if the material has fermions in the spectrum, such as graphene, topological insulators, Dirac and Weyl semimetals, as it's transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Chong-Sun Chu , Rong-Xin Miao

The unusual magnetoelectric transport present in Weyl semimetals and 3D topological insula- tors can be compactly understood as manifestations of a background axion field, which itself is determined by the microscopic band structure. In the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-21 Olivia Liebman , Jonathan Curtis , Ioannis Petrides , Prineha Narang

Topological Weyl semimetals (WSMs) have been predicted to be excellent candidates for detecting Berry curvature dipole (BCD) and the related non-linear effects in electronics and optics due to the large Berry curvature concentrated around…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 Chuanchang Zeng , Snehasish Nandy , Sumanta Tewari

PrAlSi, a non-centrosymmetric ferromagnetic Weyl semimetal candidate with a Curie temperature of 17.8K, offers a unique platform for exploring the interplay of symmetry breaking and topological electronic structures. Up to now, the Weyl…

Weyl semimetals display unusual electronic transport properties when placed under magnetic fields. Here, we investigate how magnetic fields alter the dynamics of long wavelength lattice vibrations in these materials. To that end, we develop…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-03 Pierre Rinkel , Pedro L. S. Lopes , Ion Garate

Systems with the power-law quasiparticle dispersion $\epsilon_{\bf k}\propto k^\alpha$ exhibit non-Anderson disorder-driven transitions in dimensions $d>2\alpha$, as exemplified by Weyl semimetals, 1D and 2D arrays of ultracold ions with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-28 S. V. Syzranov , V. Gurarie , L. Radzihovsky

We investigate the influence of a time-periodic drive on three-dimensional Weyl and multi-Weyl semimetals in planar-Hall/planar-thermal-Hall set-ups. The drive is modelled here by circularly-polarized electromagnetic fields, whose effects…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Ipsita Mandal

We explore the stability of three-dimensional Weyl and Dirac semimetals subject to quasiperiodic potentials. We present numerical evidence that the semimetal is stable for weak quasiperiodic potentials, despite being unstable for weak…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-06-23 J. H. Pixley , Justin H. Wilson , David A. Huse , Sarang Gopalakrishnan