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Weyl semi-metal is the three dimensional analog of graphene. According to the quantum field theory, the appearance of Weyl points near the Fermi level will cause novel transport phenomena related to chiral anomaly. In the present paper, we…

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

Discovery of Weyl fermions in semimetallic tansition-metal monopnictides is a major breakthrough in condensed matter physics. A Weyl semimetal is characterized by the existence of robust Weyl points and unclosed topological surface states…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-22 Chandra Shekhar , Vicky Süss , Marcus Schmidt

Nanowires (NWs) of topological materials are emerging as an exciting platform to probe and engineer new quantum phenomena that are hard to access in bulk phase. Their quasi-one-dimensional geometry and large surface-to-bulk ratio unlock new…

Thus far, a detection of the Dirac or Weyl fermions in topological semimetals remains often elusive, since in these materials conventional charge carriers exist as well. Here, measuring a field-induced length change of the prototype Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-09 T. Cichorek , L. Bochenek , J. Juraszek , Yu. V. Sharlai , G. P. Mikitik

We study the effects of anisotropy on the magnetoresistance of Weyl semimetals (WSMs) in the ultraquantum regime. We utilize the fact that many Weyl semimetals are approximately axially anisotropic. We find that anisotropy manifests itself…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-04 A. S. Dotdaev , Ya. I. Rodionov , K. I. Kugel , B. A. Aronzon

Magnetic Weyl semimetals (WSMs) bearing long-time pursuing are still very rare. We herein identified magnetic exchange induced Weyl state in EuCd2Sb2, a semimetal in type IV magnetic space group, via performing high magnetic field (B)…

Recent experiments on type-II Weyl semimetals such as WTe$_2$, MoTe$_2$, Mo$_x$W$_{1-x}$Te$_2$ and WP$_2$ reveal remarkable transport properties in presence of a strong magnetic field, including an extremely large magnetoresistance and an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-19 Maximilian Trescher , Emil J. Bergholtz , Johannes Knolle

Realization of noncentrosymmetric magnetic Weyl metals is expected to exhibit anomalous transport properties stemming from the interplay of unusual bulk electronic topology and magnetism. Here, we present spin-valve-like magnetoresistance…

Recent discovery of both gapped and gapless topological phases in weakly correlated electron systems has introduced various relativistic particles and a number of exotic phenomena in condensed matter physics. The Weyl fermion is a prominent…

Magnetic susceptibility of the topological Weyl, type-II Weyl, Dirac, and line node semimetals is theoretically investigated. Dependences of this susceptibility on the chemical potential, temperature, direction and magnitude of the magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-16 G. P. Mikitik , Yu. V. Sharlai

WTe$_2$ is one of a series of recently discovered high mobility semimetals, some of whose properties are characteristic of topological Dirac or Weyl metals. One of its most interesting properties is the unsaturated giant magnetoresistance…

A possible connection between extremely large magneto-resistance and the presence of Weyl points has garnered much attention in the study of topological semimetals. Exploration of these concepts in transition metal phosphide WP2 has been…

The discovery of nonmagnetic Weyl semimetals (WSMs) in TaAs compounds has triggered lots of efforts in finding its magnetic counterpart. While the direct observation of the Weyl nodes and Fermi arcs in a magnetic candidate through…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-02-26 Run Yang , Tan Zhang , Liqin Zhou , Yaomin Dai , Zhiyu Liao , Hongming Weng , Xianggang Qiu

Based on first principle calculations, we show that a family of nonmagnetic materials including TaAs, TaP, NbAs and NbP are Weyl semimetal (WSM) without inversion center. We find twelve pairs of Weyl points in the whole Brillouin zone (BZ)…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-19 Hongming Weng , Chen Fang , Zhong Fang , Andrei Bernevig , Xi Dai

Theories have revealed the universality of the band tilting effect in topological Weyl semimetals (WSMs) and its implications for the material's physical properties. However, the experimental identification of tilted Weyl bands remains much…

Weyl (WSMs) evolve from Dirac semimetals in the presence of broken time-reversal symmetry (TRS) or space-inversion symmetry. The WSM phases in TaAs-class materials and photonic crystals are due to the loss of space-inversion symmetry. For…

The discovery of Weyl fermions in transition metal monoarsenides/phosphides without inversion symmetry represents an exceptional breakthrough in modern condensed matter physics. However, exploring the inherent nature of these quasiparticles…

Detecting the spectroscopic signatures of Dirac-like quasiparticles in emergent topological materials is crucial for searching their potential applications. Magnetometry is a powerful tool for fathoming electrons in solids, yet its ability…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Cheng-Long Zhang , C. M. Wang , Zhujun Yuan , Chi-Cheng Lee , Li Pi , Changying Xi , Hsin Lin , Neil Harrison , Hai-Zhou Lu , Jinglei Zhang , Shuang Jia

Dirac metals (gapless semi-conductors) are believed to turn into Weyl metals when perturbations, which break either time reversal symmetry or inversion symmetry, are employed. However, no experimental evidence has been reported for the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-02-27 Heon-Jung Kim , Ki-Seok Kim , J. F. Wang , M. Sasaki , N. Satoh , A. Ohnishi , M. Kitaura , M. Yang , L. Li