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Weyl fermions are two-component chiral fermions in (3+1)-dimensions. When coupled to a gauge field, the Weyl fermion is known to have an axial anomaly, which means the current conservation of the left-handed and right-handed Weyl fermions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-06-13 Chao-Xing Liu , Peng Ye , Xiao-Liang Qi

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 semimetals have recently attracted great attention due to prospective applications governed by their peculiar Fermi surfaces. Weyl semimetals host chiral fermions that manifest as pairs of non-degenerate massless Weyl points in…

Weyl superconductivity or superfluidity, a fascinating topological state of matter, features novel phenomena such as emergent Weyl fermionic excitations and anomalies. Here we report that an anisotropic Weyl superfluid state can arise as a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-01-30 Bo Liu , Xiaopeng Li , Lan Yin , W. Vincent Liu

We propose a simple realization of the three-dimensional (3D) Weyl semimetal phase, utilizing a multilayer structure, composed of identical thin films of a magnetically-doped 3D topological insulator (TI), separated by ordinary-insulator…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 A. A. Burkov , Leon Balents

In this work, we explore the possible emergence of superconducting phases in a multi-Weyl semimetal. In particular, we show that the presence of a pair of Weyl nodes with chirality $|\nu| \ge 1$ leads to an effective description of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-07 Alonso Tapia , Enrique Muñoz

Weyl semimetals (WSMs) are topological quantum states wherein the electronic bands linearly disperse around pairs of nodes, the Weyl points, of fixed (left or right) chirality. The recent discovery of WSM materials triggered an experimental…

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

Topological Dirac and Weyl semimetals not only host quasiparticles analogous to the elementary fermionic particles in high-energy physics, but also have nontrivial band topology manifested by exotic Fermi arcs on the surface. Recent…

Topological Weyl semimetals (TWSs) are exotic crystals possessing emergent relativistic Weyl fermions connected by unique surface Fermi-arcs (SFAs) in their electronic structures. To realize the TWS state, certain symmetry (such as the…

Weyl semimetals are materials with topologically nontrivial band structure both in the bulk and on the surface, hosting chiral nodes which are sinks and sources of Berry curvature. Weyl semimetals have been predicted, and recently measured,…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-29 Christina A. C. Garcia , Jennifer Coulter , Prineha Narang

The key feature of Weyl semimetals (WSM) is the presence of topologically protected Dirac cones in a 3D material. We consider the effect of restricting geometry on the spectrum of excitations in WSM using as a model a cylindrical WSM wire.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-23 Mikhail Erementchouk , Pinaki Mazumder

We study light propagation in a neutral Weyl semimetal with the Fermi level lying at the Weyl nodes in the weak self-interacting regime. The nontrivial topology induces a screening effect in one of the two transverse gauge fields, for which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-14 Yago Ferreiros , Alberto Cortijo

We report on a study of intrinsic superconductivity in a Weyl metal, i.e. a doped Weyl semimetal. Two distinct superconducting states are possible in this system in principle: a zero-momentum pairing BCS state, with point nodes in the gap…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-08-05 G. Bednik , A. A. Zyuzin , A. A. Burkov

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 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…

The subject of topological materials has attracted immense attention in condensed-matter physics, because they host new quantum states of matter containing Dirac, Majorana, or Weyl fermions. Although Majorana fermions can only exist on the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-26 Silu Huang , Jisun Kim , W. A. Shelton , E. W. Plummer , Rongying Jin

Weyl and Dirac semimetals are three dimensional phases of matter with gapless electronic excitations that are protected by topology and symmetry. As three dimensional analogs of graphene, they have generated much recent interest. Deep…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-31 N. P. Armitage , E. J. Mele , Ashvin Vishwanath

Topological materials and topological phases have recently become a hot topic in condensed matter physics. In this work, we report a topological nodal-line semimetal InxTaSe2, in the presence of both charge density wave (CDW) and…

Topological superconductors are predicted to exhibit outstanding phenomena, including non-abelian anyon excitations, heat-carrying edge states, and topological nodes in the Bogoliubov spectra. Nonetheless, and despite major experimental…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-28 Hennadii Yerzhakov , Roni Ilan , Efrat Shimshoni , Jonathan Ruhman