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Ideal Weyl points, which are related by symmetry and thus reside at the same frequency, could promote the deep development and utilization of the Weyl physics. Although the ideal type-I Weyl points have been achieved in photonic crystals,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 Xueqin Huang , Jiuyang Lu , Feng Li , Weiyin Deng , Zhengyou Liu

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…

Topological Weyl semimetals (TWS) can be classified as type-I TWS, in which the density of states vanishes at the Weyl nodes, and type-II TWS where an electron and a hole pocket meet with finite density of states at the nodal energy. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-01 Timothy M. McCormick , Itamar Kimchi , Nandini Trivedi

The layered compound $\gamma$-PtBi$_2$ is a topological semimetal with Fermi arcs at the surface joining bulk Weyl points. Recent work has found signatures of surface superconductivity consisting of gap openings compatible with a critical…

Weyl semimetals typically appear in systems in which either time-reversal (T) or inversion (P}) symmetry are broken. Here we show that in the presence of gauge potentials these topological states of matter can also arise in fermionic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-08-08 L. Lepori , I. C. Fulga , A. Trombettoni , M. Burrello

In this work, we describe a method to realize 3D Weyl semimetal by coupling multilayers of honeycomb optical lattice in the presence of a pair of Raman lasers. The Raman lasers render each isolated honeycomb layer a Chern insulator. With…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-07-15 Wen-Yu He , Shizhong Zhang , K. T. Law

The search for artificial structure with tunable topological properties is an interesting research direction of today's topological physics. Here, we introduce a scheme to realize `topological semimetal states' with a three-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-11 Kaifa Luo , Rui Yu , Hongming Weng

We study the electronic properties of strongly spin-orbit coupled electrons on the elastic pyrochlore lattice. Akin to the Peierls transition in one-dimensional systems, the coupling of the lattice to the electronic degrees of freedom can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-16 Tomáš Bzdušek , Andreas Rüegg , Manfred Sigrist

Topological Weyl semimetal (TWS), a new state of quantum matter, has sparked enormous research interest recently. Possessing unique Weyl fermions in the bulk and Fermi arcs on the surface, TWSs offer a rare platform for realizing many…

Weyl fermions are hypothetical two-component massless relativistic particles in three-dimensional (3D) space, proposed by Hermann Weyl in 1929. Their band-crossing points, called 'Weyl points,' carry a topological charge and are therefore…

We report a combined experimental and theoretical study of the candidate type-II Weyl semimetal MoTe2. Using laser-based angle-resolved photoemission we resolve multiple distinct Fermi arcs on the inequivalent top and bottom (001) surfaces.…

Fermions in nature come in several types: Dirac, Majorana and Weyl are theoretically thought to form a complete list. Even though Majorana and Weyl fermions have for decades remained experimentally elusive, condensed matter has recently…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-01 Alexey A. Soluyanov , Dominik Gresch , Zhijun Wang , QuanSheng Wu , Matthias Troyer , Xi Dai , B. Andrei Bernevig

We report theoretical and experimental discovery of Lorentz-violating Weyl fermion semimetal type-II state in the LaAlGe class of materials. Previously type-II Weyl state was predicted in WTe2 materials which remains unrealized in surface…

Novel "quasi two dimensional" typically layered (semi) metals offer a unique opportunity to control the density and even the topology of the electronic matter. Along with doping and gate voltage, a robust tuning is achieved by application…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-28 Baruch Rosenstein , B. Ya. Shapiro

Optical lattices are known for their flexibility to emulate condensed matter physics and beyond. Based on an early theoretical proposal [Science Bulletin 65, 2080 (2020)], a recent experiment published by Wang et al. [Science 372, 271…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-07-01 Xiaopeng Li , W. Vincent Liu

We use ultrahigh resolution, tunable, vacuum ultraviolet laser angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) to study the electronic properties of WTe$_2$, a material that was predicted to be a type-II Weyl semimetal. The Weyl fermion…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-21 Yun Wu , Na Hyun Jo , Daixiang Mou , Lunan Huang , S. L. Bud'ko , P. C. Canfield , Adam Kaminski

The study of Weyl points in electronic systems has inspired many recent researches in classical systems such as photonic and acoustic lattices. Here we show how the Weyl physics can also inspire the design of novel elastic structures. We…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-10-27 Xiaotian Shi , Rajesh Chaunsali , Feng Li , Jinkyu Yang

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

Weyl points are the degenerate points in three-dimensional momentum space with nontrivial topological phase, which are usually realized in classical system with structure and symmetry designs. Here we proposed a one-dimensional…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-01 Ying Chen , Hai-xiao Wang , Qiaoliang Bao , Jian-Hua Jiang , Huanyang Chen

Weyl semimetals display a novel topological phase of matter where the Weyl nodes emerge in pairs of opposite chirality and can be seen as either a source or a sink of Berry curvature. The exotic effects in Weyl semimetals, such as surface…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-02 Davide Iaia , Guoqing Chang , Tay-Rong Chang , Jin Hu , Zhiqiang Mao , Hsin Lin , Shichao Yan , Vidya Madhavan