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In 1929, Hermann Weyl derived the massless solutions from the Dirac equation - the relativistic wave equation for electrons. Neutrinos were thought, for decades, to be Weyl fermions until the discovery of the neutrino mass. Moreover, it has…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-31 Ling Lu , Zhiyu Wang , Dexin Ye , Lixin Ran , Liang Fu , John D. Joannopoulos , Marin Soljačić

In 1929, H. Weyl proposed that the massless solution of Dirac equation represents a pair of new type particles, the so-called Weyl fermions [1]. However the existence of them in particle physics remains elusive for more than eight decades.…

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

The recent discovery of Weyl fermions in solids enables exploitation of relativistic physics and development of a spectrum of intriguing physical phenomena. They are constituted of pairs of Weyl points with two-fold band degeneracy, which…

Weyl points are robust point degeneracies in the band structure of a periodic material, which act as monopoles of Berry curvature. They have been at the forefront of research in three-dimensional topological materials (whether photonic,…

Optics · Physics 2021-01-04 Sachin Vaidya , Jiho Noh , Alexander Cerjan , Mikael C. Rechtsman

Weyl fermions are massless chiral quasiparticles existing in materials known as Weyl semimetals. Topological surface states, associated with the unusual electronic structure in the Weyl semimetals, have been recently demonstrated in linear…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-18 Ce Shang , Yuanlin Zheng , Boris A. Malomed

Weyl points and line nodes are three-dimensional linear point- and line-degeneracies between two bands. In contrast to Dirac points, which are their two-dimensional analogues, Weyl points are stable in the momentum space and the associated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-29 Ling Lu , Liang Fu , John D. Joannopoulos , Marin Soljačić

Weyl fermions are massless chiral particles first predicted in 1929 and once thought to describe neutrinos. Although never observed as elementary particles, quasiparticles with Weyl dispersion have recently been experimentally discovered in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-01-04 Sergey V. Syzranov , Michael L. Wall , Bihui Zhu , Victor Gurarie , Ana Maria Rey

The hypothetical Weyl particles in high-energy physics have been discovered in three-dimensional crystals as collective quasiparticle excitations near two-fold degenerate Weyl points. Such momentum-space Weyl particles carry quantized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-14 Qiaolu Chen , Fujia Chen , Qinghui Yan , Li Zhang , Zhen Gao , Shengyuan A. Yang , Zhi-Ming Yu , Hongsheng Chen , Baile Zhang , Yihao Yang

We show that Hamiltonians with Weyl points can be realized for ultracold atoms using laser-assisted tunneling in three-dimensional optical lattices. Weyl points are synthetic magnetic monopoles that exhibit a robust, three-dimensional…

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

Quantum materials hosting Weyl fermions have opened a new era of research in condensed matter physics. First proposed in 1929 in particle physics, Weyl fermions have yet to be observed as elementary particles. In 2015, Weyl fermions were…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-28 M. Zahid Hasan , Guoqing Chang , Ilya Belopolski , Guang Bian , Su-Yang Xu , Jia-Xin Yin

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

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 scheme to simulate and explore Weyl semimetal physics with ultracold fermionic atoms in a two-dimensional square optical lattice subjected to experimentally realizable spin-orbit coupling and an artificial dimension from an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-07-29 Dan-Wei Zhang , Shi-Liang Zhu , Z. D. Wang

Weyl fermions, first proposed for describing massless chiral Dirac fermions in particle physics, have not been observed yet in experiments. Recently, much effort has been devoted to explore Weyl fermions around band touching points of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-07-08 Yong Xu , Rui-Lin Chu , Chuanwei Zhang

Weyl fermion, also referred to as pseudo-magnetic monopole in momentum space, is an undiscovered massless elementary particle with half-integer spin predicted according to relativistic quantum field theory. Motivated by the recent…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-06-29 Cheng-Gong Liang , Ze-Gang Liu , Wei Han

Based on $ab$ $initio$ calculations and low-energy effective $k{\cdot}p$ model, we propose a type of Weyl nodal point-line fermion, composed of 0D Weyl points and 1D Weyl nodal line, in ferromagnetic material Eu$_5$Bi$_3$. In the absence of…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-13 Hongbo Wu , Da-Shuai Ma , Botao Fu , Wei Guo , Yugui Yao

Topological Lifshitz phase transition characterizes an abrupt change of the topology of the Fermi surface through a continuous deformation of parameters. Recently, Lifshitz transition has been predicted to separate two types of Weyl points:…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-11-23 Yong Xu , L. -M. Duan

Very recently, novel quasiparticles beyond those mimicking the elementary high-energy particles such as Dirac and Weyl fermions have attracted great interest in condensed matter physics and materials science1-9. Here we report the first…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Hailong He , Chunyin Qiu , Xiangxi Cai , Meng Xiao , Manzhu Ke , Fan Zhang , Zhengyou Liu
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