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Detection of Dirac, Majorana and Weyl fermions in real materials may significantly strengthen the bridge between high-energy and condensed-matter physics. While the presence of Dirac fermions is well established in graphene and topological…

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

Multi-Weyl semimetals(m-WSMS) are characterized by anisotropic non-linear energy dispersion along 2-D plane and a linear dispersion in orthogonal direction. They have topological charge J and are realized when two or multiple Weyl nodes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-22 Amit Gupta

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

Weyl semimetals are three-dimensional, topologically protected, gapless phases which show exotic phenomena such as Fermi arc surface states or negative magnetoresistance. It is an open question whether interparticle interactions can turn…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-24 Bernhard Irsigler , Tobias Grass , Jun-Hui Zheng , Mathieu Barbier , Walter Hofstetter

Magnetic Weyl semimetal (WSM) is of great importance both for fundamental physics and potential applications due to its spontaneous magnetism, robust band topology, and enhanced Berry curvature. It possesses many unique quantum effects,…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-15 Yuefang Hu , Changming Yue , Danwen Yuan , Jiacheng Gao , Zhigao Huang , Zhong Fang , Chen Fang , Hongming Weng , Wei Zhang

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…

We study Weyl nodes in materials with broken inversion symmetry. We find based on first-principles calculations that trigonal Te and Se have multiple Weyl nodes near the Fermi level. The conduction bands have a spin splitting similar to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-28 Motoaki Hirayama , Ryo Okugawa , Shoji Ishibashi , Shuichi Murakami , Takashi Miyake

Topological semimetals have been at the forefront of experimental and theoretical attention in condensed matter physics. Among these, recently discovered Weyl semimetals have a dispersion described by a three-dimensional Dirac cone, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-31 Weizhe Edward Liu , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz , Dimitrie Culcer

We present a study of "nodal semimetal" phases, in which non-degenerate conduction and valence bands touch at points (the "Weyl semimetal") or lines (the "line node semimetal") in three-dimensional momentum space. We discuss a general…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 A. A. Burkov , M. D. Hook , Leon Balents

The response to an electric field (DC and AC) of electronic systems in which the Fermi "surface" consists of a number of 3D Weyl points (such as some pyrochlore iridates) exhibits a peculiar combination of characteristics usually associated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-15 B. Rosenstein , M. Lewkowicz

We predict a linear logarithmical scaling law of Bloch oscillation dynamics in Weyl semimetals (WSMs), which can be applied to detect Weyl nodal points. Applying the semiclassical dynamics for quasiparticles which are accelerated bypassing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 Yan-Qi Wang , Xiong-Jun Liu

Weyl semimetal, which does not require any symmetry except translation for protection, is a robust gapless state of quantum matters in three dimensions. When translation symmetry is preserved, the only way to destroy a Weyl semimetal state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Faruk Abdulla

Transport measurements are a powerful way to probe the electronic structure of quantum materials, but the information they contain is often convoluted. Yet, in particular for simple low-energy fermiologies, and by combining linear and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Andrea Kouta Dagnino , Xiaoxiong Liu , Titus Neupert

We consider finite-sized interfaces of a Weyl semi-metal and show that the corresponding confinement potential is similar to the application of a magnetic field. Among the numerous states, which can be labeled by indices n like in Landau…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-15 Serguei Tchoumakov , Marcello Civelli , Mark O. Goerbig

Weyl semimetals (WSMs) are three-dimensional topological materials that exhibit fascinating properties due to the presence of Weyl nodes in their band structure. However, existing WSMs discovered so far often possess multiple pairs of Weyl…

We theoretically study the Kondo screening of a spin-1/2 magnetic impurity in the bulk of a type-II Weyl semimetal (WSM) by use of the variational wave function method. We consider a type-II WSM model with two Weyl nodes located on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-06 Lu-Ji Wang , Xing-Tai Hu , Lin Li , Dong-Hui Xu , Jin-Hua Sun , Wei-Qiang Chen

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

In classes of Weyl semimetals where the symmetry protects nodes with higher than unit charge, the nematic Weyl liquid appears as interactions destroy this underlying symmetry. In the symmetry-broken phase, the multiple-charge nodes are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-21 Carlos Naya , Tommaso Bertolini , Johan Carlström

Weyl semimetals (WSM) have been discovered in time-reversal symmetric materials, featuring monopoles of Berry's curvature in momentum space. WSM have been distinguished between Type-I and II where the velocity tilting of the cone in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-19 Xu Yang , Kenneth Burch , Ying Ran