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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

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…

Weyl fermions are massless chiral particles first predicted in 1929 and once thought to describe neutrinos. Although never observed as elementary particles, quasiparticles with Weyl dispersion have recently been experimentally discovered in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-01-04 Sergey V. Syzranov , Michael L. Wall , Bihui Zhu , Victor Gurarie , Ana Maria Rey

Weyl semimetals are novel topological conductors that host Weyl fermions as emergent quasiparticles. While the Weyl fermions in high-energy physics are strictly defined as the massless solution of the Dirac equation and uniquely fixed by…

Weyl semimetals have attracted significant interest in condensed matter physics and materials science, due to their unique electronic and topological properties. These characteristics not only deepen our understanding of fundamental quantum…

Weyl semimetal with Weyl fermions at Fermi energy is one of the topological materials, and is a condensed-matter realization of the relativistic fermions. However, there are several crucial differences such as the shift of Fermi energy,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Hiroaki Ishizuka , Naoto Nagaosa

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

Weyl semimetals are 3D condensed matter systems characterized by a degenerate Fermi surface, consisting of a pair of `Weyl nodes'. Correspondingly, in the infrared limit, these systems behave effectively as Weyl fermions in $3+1$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-10 A. Giuliani , V. Mastropietro , M. Porta

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

Strong correlation, in concert with symmetry and topology, engenders novel gapless phases of matter, though only a tip of the iceberg has been seen. An exemplary framework is provided by Weyl-Kondo semimetals, in which Weyl fermions develop…

Weyl semimetal is a new topological state of matter, characterized by the presence of nondegenerate band-touching nodes, separated in momentum space, in its bandstructure. Here we discuss a particular realization of a Weyl semimetal: a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 A. A. Zyuzin , Si Wu , A. A. Burkov

Weyl fermions are massless chiral quasiparticles existing in materials known as Weyl semimetals. Topological surface states, associated with the unusual electronic structure in the Weyl semimetals, have been recently demonstrated in linear…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-18 Ce Shang , Yuanlin Zheng , Boris A. Malomed

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…

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…

Weyl fermions, first proposed for describing massless chiral Dirac fermions in particle physics, have not been observed yet in experiments. Recently, much effort has been devoted to explore Weyl fermions around band touching points of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-07-08 Yong Xu , Rui-Lin Chu , Chuanwei Zhang

Weyl semimetals (WSMs) constitute a 3D phase with linearly-dispersing Weyl excitations at low energy, which lead to unusual electrodynamic responses and open Fermi arcs on boundaries. We derive a simple criterion to identify and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-28 William Witczak-Krempa , Michael Knap , Dmitry Abanin

Weyl fermions are powerful yet simple entities that connect geometry, topology, and physics. While their existence as fundamental particles is still uncertain, growing evidence shows they emerge as quasiparticles in special materials called…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Azaz Ahmad

Condensed matter systems realizing Weyl fermions exhibit striking phenomenology derived from their topologically protected surface states as well as chiral anomalies induced by electromagnetic fields. More recently, inhomogeneous strain or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-20 Jan Behrends , Sthitadhi Roy , Michael H. Kolodrubetz , Jens H. Bardarson , Adolfo G. Grushin

Three-dimensional Weyl fermions are found to emerge from simple cubic lattices with staggered fluxes. The mechanism is to gap the quadratic band touching by time-reversal-symmetry-breaking hoppings. The system exhibits rich phase diagrams…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-04-03 Jian-Hua Jiang

Weyl semimetals (WSMs) are characterized by topologically stable pairs of nodal points in the band structure, that typically originate from splitting a degenerate Dirac point by breaking symmetries such as time reversal or inversion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-29 L. Crippa , A. Amaricci , N. Wagner , G. Sangiovanni , J. C. Budich , M. Capone