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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

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

Weyl semimetals are a newly discovered class of materials that host relativistic massless Weyl fermions as their low-energy bulk excitations. Among this new class of materials, there exist two general types of semimetals that are of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Moon Jip Park , Bora Basa , Matthew J. Gilbert

We study the density of states and magnetotransport properties of disordered Weyl semimetals, focusing on the case of a strong long-range disorder. To calculate the disorder-averaged density of states close to nodal points, we treat exactly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-28 D. A. Pesin , E. G. Mishchenko , A. Levchenko

A Weyl semimetal is a new type of topological quantum phase with intriguing physics near the Weyl nodes. Although the equilibrium state of Weyl semimetals has been investigated, the ultrafast dynamics near the Weyl node in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-03 Guoliang Wan , Wei Yao , Kenan Zhang , Changhua Bao , Hongyun Zhang , Haijun Zhang , Yang Wu , Shuyun Zhou

We develop a topological theory for disordered Weyl semimetals in the framework of gauge invariance of replica formalism and boundary-bulk correspondence of Chern insulators. An anisotropic topological $\theta$-term is analytically derived…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-21 Y. X. Zhao , Z. D. Wang

Unconventional superconducting states of matter are realized in the presence of strong spin orbit coupling. In particular, non degenerate bands can support odd parity superconductivity with rich topological content. Here we study whether…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-16 Huazhou Wei , Sung-Po Chao , Vivek Aji

We calculate the transport properties of three-dimensional Weyl fermions in a disordered environment. The resulting conductivity depends only on the Fermi energy and the scattering rate. First we study the conductivity at the spectral node…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-12-07 K. Ziegler

We have found a ferromagnetic Weyl semimetal (WSM) in half metallic Co$_3$Sn$_2$Se$_2$. The three pairs of Weyl points near Fermi level (E$_F$) are derived from nodal lines gapped by spin-orbit coupling (SOC). Though the Weyl points are…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-29 Qiunan Xu , Enke Liu , Wujun Shi , Lukas Muechler , Claudia Felser , Yan Sun

A Weyl semimetal (WSM)\ is a three-dimensional topological phase of matter where pairs of nondegenerate bands cross at isolated points in the Brillouin zone called Weyl nodes. Near these points, the electronic dispersion is gapless and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-20 Samuel Vadnais , Rene Cote

Weyl superconductivity or superfluidity, a fascinating topological state of matter, features novel phenomena such as emergent Weyl fermionic excitations and anomalies. Here we report that an anisotropic Weyl superfluid state can arise as a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-01-30 Bo Liu , Xiaopeng Li , Lan Yin , W. Vincent Liu

The motivation to search for signatures of superconductivity in Weyl semi-metals and other topological phases lies in their potential for hosting exotic phenomena such as nonzero-momentum pairing or the Majorana fermion, a viable candidate…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-30 M. R. van Delft , S. Pezzini , M. König , P. Tinnemans , N. E. Hussey , S. Wiedmann

Quantum field theory predicts Weyl semimetals to possess a peculiar response of the longitudinal current density to the application of a DC magnetic field. Such a response function has been shown to be at odds with a general result showing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-05 Yahya Alavirad , Jay D. Sau

Recent studies suggest that the nonlinear transport properties in Weyl semimetal may be a measurable consequence of its chiral anomaly. Nonlinear responses in transport are estimated to be substantial, because in real materials such as TaAs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-16 Min Ju Park , Suik Cheon , Hyun-Woo Lee

In Weyl semimetals the application of parallel electric and magnetic fields leads to valley polarization -- an occupation disbalance of valleys of opposite chirality -- a direct consequence of the chiral anomaly. In this work, we present…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-02 Pablo M. Perez-Piskunow , Nicandro Bovenzi , Anton R. Akhmerov , Maxim Breitkreiz

We study the properties of spin-less non-interacting fermions trapped in a confining potential in one dimension but in the presence of one or more impurities which are modelled by delta function potentials. We use a method based on the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-03 David S. Dean , Pierre Le Doussal , Satya N. Majumdar , Gregory Schehr

An effective field theory (EFT) for dynamical axions in Weyl semimetals (WSMs) is presented. A pseudoscalar axion excitation is predicted in WSMs at sufficiently low temperatures, independently of the strength of the Weyl fermion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-01 Emil Mottola , Andrey V. Sadofyev , Andreas Stergiou

In quantum mechanics, a particle is best described by the wave packet instead of the plane wave. Here, we study the wave-packet scattering problem in Weyl semimetals with the low-energy Weyl fermions of different chiralities. Our results…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-08 Qing-Dong Jiang , Hua Jiang , Haiwen Liu , Qing-Feng Sun , X. C. Xie

$\mathsf{Mn_{3}Sn}$ has recently attracted considerable attention as a magnetic Weyl semimetal exhibiting concomitant transport anomalies at room temperature. The topology of the electronic bands, their relation to the magnetic ground state…

The double Weyl semimetal (DWSM) is a newly proposed topological material that hosts Weyl points with chiral charge n=2. The disorder effect in DWSM is investigated by adopting the tight-binding Hamiltonian. Using the transfer matrix method…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Jiayan Zhang , Fei Wan , Xinru Wang , Ying Ding , Liehong Liao , Zhihui Chen , M. N. Chen , Yuan Li