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Weyl semimetals and nodal line semimetals are characterized by linear electronic bands touching at zero-dimensional points and one-dimensional lines, respectively. Recently, it has been predicted that nodal line semimetals can be driven…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-11 F. Bonasera , S. -B. Zhang , L. Privitera , F. M. D. Pellegrino

We begin this review with an introduction and a discussion of Weyl fermions as emergent particles in condensed matter systems, and explain how high energy phenomena like the chiral anomaly can be seen in low energy experiments. We then…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Sumathi Rao

Weyl semimetals (WSM) have been discovered in time-reversal symmetric materials, featuring monopoles of Berry's curvature in momentum space. WSM have been distinguished between Type-I and II where the velocity tilting of the cone in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-19 Xu Yang , Kenneth Burch , Ying Ran

Weyl semimetal is a new quantum state of matter [1-12] hosting the condensed matter physics counterpart of relativisticWeyl fermion [13] originally introduced in high energy physics. The Weyl semimetal realized in the TaAs class features…

TaAs as one of the experimentally discovered topological Weyl semimetal has attracted intense interests recently. The ambient TaAs has two types of Weyl nodes which are not on the same energy level. As an effective way to tune lattice…

Based on $k\cdot p$ analysis and realistic tight-binding calculations, we find that time-reversal-breaking Weyl semimetals can be realized in magnetically-doped (Mn, Eu, Cr etc.) Sn$_{1-x}$Pb$_x$(Te,Se) class of topological crystalline…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-15 Junwei Liu , Chen Fang , Liang Fu

Weyl semimetal is a topologically non-trivial phase of matter with pairs of Weyl nodes in the k-space, which act as monopole and anti-monopole pairs of Berry curvature. Two hallmarks of the Weyl metallic state are the topological surface…

We theoretically address the effects of strong magnetic fields in three-dimensional Weyl semimetals (WSMs) built out of Weyl nodes with a monopole charge $n$. For $n=1$, $2$, and $3$ we realize single, double, and triple WSM, respectively,…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-29 Xiao Li , Bitan Roy , S. Das Sarma

The existence of Weyl nodes in the momentum space is a hallmark of a Weyl semimetal (WSM). A WSM can be confirmed by observing its Fermi arcs with separated Weyl nodes. In this paper, we study the spin- orbit interaction of light on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Shizhen Chen , Chengquan Mi , Weijie Wu , Wenshuai Zhang , Hailu Luo , Shuangchun Wen

We identify a Weyl semimetal state in an inversion breaking, stoichiometric compound strontium silicide, SrSi$_2$, with many new and novel properties that are distinct from the TaAs family. We theoretically show that SrSi$_2$ is a Weyl…

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 semimetals (WSM) have been extensively studied due to their exotic properties such as topological surface states and anomalous transport phenomena. Their band structure topology is usually predetermined by material parameters and can…

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…

A Weyl semimetal (WSM) features Weyl fermions in its bulk and topological surface states on surfaces, and is novel material hosting Weyl fermions, a kind of fundamental particles. The WSM was regarded as a three-dimensional version of…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-26 Shumeng Chi , Zhilin Li , Haohai Yu , Gang Wang , Shuxian Wang , Huaijin Zhang , Jiyang Wang

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

Topological materials have been a main focus of studies in the past decade due to their protected properties that can be exploited for the fabrication of new devices. Among them, Weyl semimetals are a class of topological semimetals with…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-05 Davide Grassano , Luca Binci , Nicola Marzari

There is considerable current interest to explore electronic topology in strongly correlated metals, with heavy fermion systems providing a promising setting. Recently, a Weyl-Kondo semimetal phase has been concurrently discovered in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-01 Sarah E. Grefe , Hsin-Hua Lai , Silke Paschen , Qimiao Si

There is an immense effort in search for various types of Weyl semimetals, of which the most fundamental phase consists of the minimal number of i.e. two Weyl points, but is hard to engineer in solids. Here we demonstrate how such…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-11-11 Yue-Hui Lu , Bao-Zong Wang , Xiong-Jun Liu

Weyl semimetal (WSM), a novel state of quantum matter, hosts Weyl fermions as emergent quasiparticles resulting from the breaking of either inversion or time-reversal symmetry. Magnetic WSMs that arise from broken time-reversal symmetry…

Unconventional Weyl semimetals have attracted intensive research interest in condensed matter physics and materials science, but they are very rare in two dimensions. In this work, based on symmetry analysis and the first-principles…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-08 Xinlei Zhao , Fengjie Ma , Peng-Jie Guo , Zhong-Yi Lu
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