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We investigate the effect of disorder on the Landau levels (LLs) in tilted three dimensional Weyl semimetals (WSMs) when a magnetic field is present. Based on the minimum lattice model and by using the exact diagonalization and Kubo's…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-02-19 Yi-Xiang Wang

A Weyl semimetal denotes an electronic phase of solids in which two bands cross linearly. In this paper we study the effect of a spatially correlated disorder on such a phase. Using a renormalization group analysis, we show that in three…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-06 Thibaud Louvet , David Carpentier , Andrei A. Fedorenko

Typical Weyl semimetals host chiral surface states and hence show an anomalous Hall response. Although a Weyl semimetal phase is known to be robust against weak disorder, the influence of disorder on chiral states is not fully clarified so…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Yositake Takane

Quantum phase transitions of three-dimensional (3D) Weyl semimetals (WSMs) subject to uncorrelated on-site disorder are investigated through quantum conductance calculations and finite-size scaling of localization length. Contrary to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-06-27 Ying Su , X. S. Wang , X. R. Wang

Diffusion, a ubiquitous phenomenon in nature, is a consequence of particle number conservation and locality, in systems with sufficient damping. In this paper we consider diffusive processes in the bulk of Weyl semimetals, which are exotic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-05 Rudro R. Biswas , Shinsei Ryu

Taking into account the interplay between the disorder and Coulomb interaction, the phase diagram of three-dimensional anisotropic Weyl semimetal is studied by renormalization group theory. Weak disorder is irrelevant in anisotropic Weyl…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-02-19 Jing-Rong Wang , Wei Li , Gang Wang , Chang-Jin Zhang

In this work we address the physics of individual three dimensional Weyl nodes subject to a moderate concentration of disorder. Previous analysis indicates the presence of a quantum phase transition below which disorder becomes irrelevant…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-11-29 Michael Buchhold , Sebastian Diehl , Alexander Altland

Weyl semimetal is a recently discovered state of quantum matter, which generally possesses tilted energy dispersion. Here, we investigate the electron tunneling through a Weyl semimetal p-n-p junction. The angular dependence of electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Can Yesilyurt , Seng Ghee Tan , Gengchiau Liang , Shengyuan A. Yang , Mansoor B. A. Jalil

We investigate the tunneling conductance of Weyl semimetal with tilted energy dispersion by considering electron transmission through a p-n-p junction with one-dimensional electric and magnetic barrier. In the presence of both electric and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-21 Can Yesilyurt , Seng Ghee Tan , Gengchiau Liang , Mansoor B. A. Jalil

We investigate a three-dimensional (3D) topological phase resembling a Weyl semimetal, modulated by a periodic potential and engineered through Floquet dynamics. This system is constructed by stacking two-dimensional Chern insulators and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Fang Qin , Rui Chen

We study the effects of disorder and Coulomb interactions on the physics of three-dimensional type-I Weyl fermions with tilted and anisotropic dispersions in a renormalization group approach. To lowest non-trivial loop order we show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 T. S. Sikkenk , Lars Fritz

Weyl semimetals are phases of matter with excitations effectively described by massless Dirac fermions. Their critical nature makes unclear the persistence of such phase in presence of disorder. We present a theorem ensuring the stability…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-08 Vieri Mastropietro

Weyl nodal loop semimetals are gapless topological phases that, unlike their insulator counterparts, may be unstable to small perturbations that respect their topology-protecting symmetries. Here, we analyze a clean system perturbed by…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-02-07 João S. Silva , Miguel Gonçalves , Eduardo V. Castro , Pedro Ribeiro , Miguel A. N. Araújo

Weyl semimetals, featuring massless linearly dispersing chiral fermions in three dimensions, provide an excellent platform for studying the interplay of electronic interactions and topology, and exploring new correlated states of matter.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-03 Sarbajaya Kundu , David Sénéchal

Type-II Weyl semimetals are characterized by the tilted linear dispersion in the low-energy excitations, mimicking Weyl fermions but with manifest violation of the Lorentz invariance, which has intriguing quantum transport properties. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-30 Yi-Wen Wei , Chao-Kai Li , Jingshan Qi , Ji Feng

Periodically driven systems provide tunable platforms to realize interesting Floquet topological phases and phase transitions. In electronic systems with Weyl dispersions, the band crossings are topologically protected even in the presence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-14 Ching-Kit Chan , Yun-Tak Oh , Jung Hoon Han , Patrick A. Lee

The Weyl semimetal (WSM) is a newly proposed quantum state of matter. It has Weyl nodes in bulk excitations and Fermi arcs surface states. We study the effects of disorder and localization in WSMs and find three exotic phase transitions.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Chui-Zhen Chen , Juntao Song , Hua Jiang , Qing-feng Sun , Ziqiang Wang , X. C. Xie

We investigate the nature of the magnetic phase transition induced by the short-ranged electron-electron interactions in a Weyl semimetal by using the perturbative renormalization-group method. We find that the critical point associated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-19 Yu-Li Lee , Yu-Wen Lee

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…

We predict a nonlinear Hall effect in certain Weyl semimetals with broken inversion symmetry. When the energy dispersions about pairs of Weyl nodes are skewed -- the Weyl cones are "tilted" -- the concerted actions of the anomalous velocity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-19 Rui-Hao Li , Olle G. Heinonen , Anton A. Burkov , Steven S. -L. Zhang