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As one of Weyl semimetals discovered recently, NbP exhibits two groups of Weyl points with one group lying inside the $k_z=0$ plane and the other group staying away from this plane. All Weyl points have been assumed to be type-I, for which…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-18 Shu-Chun Wu , Yan Sun , Claudia Felser , Binghai Yan

Lorentz-violating type-II Weyl fermions, which were missed in Weyl's prediction of nowadays classified type-I Weyl fermions in quantum field theory, have recently been proposed in condensed matter systems. The semimetals hosting type-II…

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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

Weyl fermions have not been found in nature as elementary particles, but they emerge as nodal points in the band structure of electronic and classical wave crystals. Novel phenomena such as Fermi arcs and chiral anomaly have fueled the…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-22 Qiang Wang , Meng Xiao , Hui Liu , Shining Zhu , C. T. Chan

We propose a new topological quantum state of matter---the two-dimensional (2D) Weyl half semimetal (WHS), which features 2D Weyl points at Fermi level belonging to a single spin channel, such that the low-energy electrons are described by…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-28 Jing-Yang You , Cong Chen , Zhen Zhang , Xian-Lei Sheng , Shengyuan A. Yang , Gang Su

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

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

We propose a realization of the Weyl semimetal phase that is invariant under time reversal and occurs due to broken inversion symmetry. We consider both a simple superlattice model and a more realistic tight-binding model describing an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-28 Gábor B. Halász , Leon Balents

The current-voltage characteristics of a new range of devices built around Weyl semimetals has been predicted using the Landauer formalism. The potential step and barrier have been reconsidered for a three-dimensional Weyl semimetals, with…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-06-13 R. D. Y. Hills , A. Kusmartseva , F. V. Kusmartsev

By using Wilsonian Renormalization Group (RG) methods we rigorously establish the existence of a Weyl semimetallic phase in an interacting three dimensional fermionic lattice system, by showing that the zero temperature Schwinger functions…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-10 Vieri Mastropietro

Weyl fermions1 do not appear in nature as elementary particles, but they are now found to exist as nodal points in the band structure of electronic and classical wave crystals. Novel phenomena such as Fermi arcs and chiral anomaly have…

Optics · Physics 2016-10-17 Qiang Wang , Meng Xiao , Hui Liu , Xiangang Wan , Shining Zhu , C. T. Chan

Optical control of structural and electronic properties of Weyl semimetals allows development of switchable and dissipationless topological devices at the ultrafast scale. An unexpected orbitial-selective photoexcitation in type-II Weyl…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-14 Meng-Xue Guan , En Wang , Pei-Wei You , Jia-Tao Sun , Sheng Meng

The recently discovered type-II Weyl points appear at the boundary between electron and hole pockets. Type-II Weyl semimetals that host such points are predicted to exhibit a new type of chiral anomaly and possess thermodynamic properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 G. Autès , D. Gresch , M. Troyer , A. A. Soluyanov , O. V. Yazyev

In electronics systems, the Weyl points can be classified into three types based on the geometry of the Fermi surface, and each type exhibits various unique and intriguing phenomena. While the type-I and type-II Weyl points have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Xiao-Ping Li , Feng Li , Di Zhou , Ying Wu , Zhi-Ming Yu , Yugui Yao

The Weyl semimetals [1-6] are three-dimensional (3D) gapless topological phases with Weyl cones in the bulk band, and host massless quasiparticles known as Weyl fermions which were theorized by Hermann Weyl in the last twenties [7]. The…

In a type I Dirac or Weyl semimetal, the low energy states are squeezed to a single point in momentum space when the chemical potential Ef is tuned precisely to the Dirac/Weyl point. Recently, a type II Weyl semimetal was predicted to…

Fermi arc surface states, the manifestation of the bulk-edge correspondence in Weyl semimetals, have attracted much research interest. In contrast to the conventional Fermi loop, the disconnected Fermi arcs provide an exotic 2D system for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Xi-Rong Chen , Guangze Chen , Yue Zheng , Wei Chen , D. Y. Xing

Topological Weyl semimetal (TWS) is a metal, where low energy excitations behave like Weyl fermions of high-energy physics. It was recently shown that due to the lower symmetry of condensed matter systems, they can realize two distinct…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-18 Wenhan Zhang , Quansheng Wu , Lunyong Zhang , Sang-Wook Cheong , Alexey A. Soluyanov , Weida Wu

Topological semimetals are a class of novel three-dimensional (3D) electronic phases that feature topologically protected conical band-touchings at the Fermi level. These band-touching points are monopoles of Berry curvature in momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-23 J. P. Santos Pires

Magnetic topological materials have recently drawn significant importance and interest, due to their topologically nontrivial electronic structure within spontaneous magnetic moments and band inversion. Based on first-principles…

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