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The Dirac nodal line (DNL) is a novel form of massless Dirac fermions that reside along lines in momentum space. Here, we verify genuine DNLs in the molecular material, [Ni(dmdt)$_2$], with the combined NMR experiments and numerical…

The disjointed Fermi-arcs in Weyl semimetals can intertwine with chiral bulk modes and participate in unusual closed magnetic orbits in the presence of a vertical magnetic field. Here we carry out the quantum oscillation study of such…

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A Dirac fermion emerges as a result of interplay between symmetry and topology in condensed matter. Current research moves towards investigating the Dirac fermions in the presence of manybody effects in correlated system. Here, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-15 J. W. Han , Sun-Woo Kim , W. S. Kyung , C. Kim , G. Cao , X. Chen , S. D. Wilson , Sangmo Cheon , J. S. Lee

Topological Dirac and Weyl semimetals have an energy spectrum that hosts Weyl nodes appearing in pairs of opposite chirality. Topological stability is ensured when the nodes are separated in momentum space and unique spectral and transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-13 Adolfo G. Grushin , Jorn W. F. Venderbos , Ashvin Vishwanath , Roni Ilan

We propose a correspondence between the description of emergent Lorentz symmetry in condensed-matter systems and the established general effective field theory for Lorentz violation in fundamental theories of spacetime and matter. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-08 Alan Kostelecky , Ralf Lehnert , Navin McGinnis , Marco Schreck , Babak Seradjeh

We study the stability of gap-closing (Weyl or Dirac) points in the three-dimensional Brillouin zone of semimetals using Clifford algebras and their representation theory. We show that a pair of Weyl points with $\mathbb{Z}_2$ topological…

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Three-dimensional topological Dirac semimetals have hitherto stimulated unprecedented research interests as a new class of quantum materials. Breaking certain types of symmetries has been proposed to enable the manipulation of Dirac…

Type-II Dirac/Weyl semimetals are characterized by strongly tilted Dirac cones such that the Dirac/Weyl node emerges at the boundary of electron and hole pockets as a new state of quantum matter, distinct from the standard Dirac/Weyl points…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-24 Chunqiang Xu , Bin Li , Wenhe Jiao , Wei Zhou , Bin Qian , Raman Sankar , Nikolai D. Zhigadlo , Yanpeng Qi , Dong Qian , Fang-Cheng Chou , Xiaofeng Xu

The three dimensional (3D) Dirac semimetal, which has been predicted theoretically, is a new electronic state of matter. It can be viewed as 3D generalization of graphene, with a unique electronic structure in which conduction and valence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-10 Sergey Borisenko , Quinn Gibson , Danil Evtushinsky , Volodymyr Zabolotnyy , Bernd Buechner , Robert J. Cava

Quantum anomalies are the breaking of a classical symmetry by quantum fluctuations. They dictate how physical systems of diverse nature, ranging from fundamental particles to crystalline materials, respond topologically to external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-12 Jan Behrends , Adolfo G. Grushin , Teemu Ojanen , Jens H. Bardarson

Even if Weyl semimetals are characterized by quasiparticles with well-defined chirality, exploiting this experimentally is severely hampered by Weyl lattice-fermions coming in pairs with opposite chirality, typically causing the net…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 Rajyavardhan Ray , Banasree Sadhukhan , Manuel Richter , Jorge I. Facio , Jeroen van den Brink

Topological semimetals are a new class of metallic materials, which exist at band fillings that ordinarily correspond to insulators or compensated accidental semimetals with zero Luttinger volume. Their metallicity is a result of nontrivial…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-05 Lei Gioia , Chong Wang , A. A. Burkov

The anomalous Nernst effect (ANE) is a member of the extensive family of topological effects in solid state physics. It converts a heat current into electric voltage and originates from the Berry curvature of electronic bands near the Fermi…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-24 Ondřej Stejskal , Martin Veis , Jaroslav Hamrle

Weyl semimetals have been intensely studied as a three dimensional realization of a Dirac-like excitation spectrum where the conduction bands and valence bands touch at isolated Weyl points in momentum space. Like in graphene, this property…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-22 Tobias Holder , Chia-Wei Huang , Pavel Ostrovsky

Layered van der Waals tellurides reveal topologically non-trivial properties that give rise to unconventional magneto-transport phenomena. Additionally, their semimetallic character with high mobility makes them promising candidates for…

We report an above-room-temperature ferromagnetic state realized in a proximitized Dirac semimetal, which is fabricated by growing typical Dirac semimetal Cd$_3$As$_2$ films on a ferromagnetic garnet with strong perpendicular magnetization.…

The nodal and effectively relativistic dispersion featuring in a range of novel materials including two- dimensional graphene and three-dimensional Dirac and Weyl semimetals has attracted enormous interest during the past decade. Here, by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-11 Johan Carlström , Emil J. Bergholtz

We study three-dimensional Dirac fermions with weak finite-range scalar potential disorder. We show that even though disorder is perturbatively irrelevant at 3D Dirac points, nonperturbative effects from rare regions give rise to a nonzero…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-06-12 Rahul Nandkishore , David A. Huse , S. L. Sondhi

Wide ranging interest in Dirac Hamiltomian is due to the emergence of novel materials, namely, graphene, topological insulators and superconductors, the newly-discovered Weyl semimetals, and still actively-sought after Majorana fermions in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Felix A. Buot , Roland E. S. Otadoy , Karla B. Rivero

Breaking time-reversal symmetry in a Dirac semimetal Cd$_3$As$_2$ through doping with magnetic ions or by the magnetic proximity effect is expected to cause a transition to other topological phases (such as a Weyl semimetal). To this end,…