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For the solid state physics, recent interest to topological systems is mostly connected with topological semimetals, in particular, to Weyl ones as the most representative semimetal type. Like other topological materials, e.g. topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 E. V. Deviatov

In the search for stable topological semimetals with clean band profiles, we have screened all the 3$d$ metal-intercalated transition-metal dichalcogenides (3dI-TMDCs) by performing hybrid-functional-based ab initio calculations. Two…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-08 Takeshi Inoshita , Motoaki Hirayama , Noriaki Hamada , Hideo Hosono , Shuichi Murakami

Weyl semimetals are three-dimensional, topologically protected, gapless phases which show exotic phenomena such as Fermi arc surface states or negative magnetoresistance. It is an open question whether interparticle interactions can turn…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-24 Bernhard Irsigler , Tobias Grass , Jun-Hui Zheng , Mathieu Barbier , Walter Hofstetter

We construct a top-down holographic model of Weyl semimetal states using $(3+1)$-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric $SU(N_c)$ Yang-Mills theory, at large $N_c$ and strong coupling, coupled to a number $N_f \ll N_c$ of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-31 Kazem Bitaghsir Fadafan , Andy O'Bannon , Ronnie Rodgers , Matthew Russell

Weyl semimetals are recently discovered materials supporting emergent relativistic fermions in the vicinity of band-crossing points known as Weyl nodes. The positions of the nodes and the low-energy spectrum depend sensitively on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Alex Westström , Teemu Ojanen

The realization of Dirac and Weyl physics in solids has made topological materials one of the main focuses of condensed matter physics. Recently, the topic of topological nodal line semimetals, materials in which Dirac or Weyl-like…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-13 Shuo-Ying Yang , Hao Yang , Elena Derunova , Stuart S. P. Parkin , Binghai Yan , Mazhar N. Ali

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 semimetals have been classified into type-I and type-II with respect to the geometry of their Fermi surfaces at the Weyl points. Here, we propose a new class of Weyl semimetal, whose unique Fermi surface contains two electron or two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-29 Xiao-Ping Li , Ke Deng , Botao Fu , YongKai Li , DaShuai Ma , JunFeng Han , Jianhui Zhou , Shuyun Zhou , Yugui Yao

A three-dimensional (3D) nodal-loop semimetal phase is exploited to engineer a number of intriguing phases featuring different peculiar topological surface states. In particular, by introducing various two-dimensional gap terms to a 3D…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Linhu Li , Han Hoe Yap , Miguel A. N. Araújo , Jiangbin Gong

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 semimetal showing open-arc surface states is a prominent example of topological quantum matter in three dimensions. With the bulk-boundary correspondence present, nontrivial surface-bulk hybridization is inevitable but less understood.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Xiao-Xiao Zhang , Naoto Nagaosa

Weyl semimetals are a new member of the topological materials family, featuring a pair of singly degenerate Weyl cones with linear dispersion around the nodes in the bulk, and Fermi arcs on the surface. Depending on whether the system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-29 Hao Zheng , M. Zahid Hasan

We demonstrate a few unique dynamical properties of point-gap Weyl semimetal, an intrinsic non-Hermitian topological phase in three dimensions. We consider a concrete model where a pair of Weyl points reside on the imaginary axis of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-20 Haiping Hu , Erhai Zhao , W. Vincent Liu

Graphene as a two-dimensional (2D) topological Dirac semimetal has attracted much attention for its outstanding properties and potential applications. However, three-dimensional (3D) topological semimetals for carbon materials are still…

We propose a 3D topolectrical (TE) network that can be tuned to realize various higher-order topological gapless and chiral phases. We first study a higher-order Dirac semimetal phase that exhibits a hinge-like Fermi arc linking the Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 S. M. Rafi-Ul-Islam , Zhuo Bin Siu , Haydar Sahin , Mansoor B. A. Jalil

We investigate an ultra-thin film of topological insulator (TI) multilayer as a model for a three-dimensional (3D) Weyl semimetal. We introduce tunneling parameters $t_S$, $t_\perp$, and $t_D$, where the former two parameters couple layers…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-05-10 S. A. Owerre

We study the topological properties of 3D Floquet bandstructures, which are defined using unitary evolution matrices rather than Hamiltonians. Previously, 2D bandstructures of this sort have been shown to exhibit anomalous topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 Hailong Wang , Longwen Zhou , Yidong Chong

The notion of higher-order topological insulators has endowed materials with topological states beyond the first order. Particularly, a three-dimensional (3D) higher-order topological insulator can host topologically protected 1D hinge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-16 Qiang Wei , Xuewei Zhang , Weiyin Deng , Jiuyang Lu , Xueqin Huang , Mou Yan , Gang Chen , Zhengyou Liu , Suotang Jia

Controllability of ultracold atomic gases has reached an unprecedented level, allowing for experimental realization of the long-sought-after Thouless pump, which can be interpreted as a dynamical quantum Hall effect. On the other hand, Weyl…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-11-14 Yan-Bin Yang , L. -M. Duan , Yong Xu

Time-reversal invariant topological superconductors are a new state of matter which have a bulk superconducting gap and robust Majorana fermion surface states. These have not yet been realized in solid state systems. In this paper, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-07-30 Pavan Hosur , Xi Dai , Zhong Fang , Xiao-Liang Qi