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The Weyl semimetal NbP was found to exhibit topological Fermi arcs and exotic magneto-transport properties. Here, we report on magnetic quantum-oscillation measurements on NbP and construct the 3D Fermi surface with the help of…

Topological semimetals with different types of band crossings provide a rich platform to realize novel fermionic excitations, known as topological fermions. In particular, some fermionic excitations can be direct analogues of elementary…

Among different topological and related phases of condensed matter, nodal semimetals occupy a special place - the electronic band topology in these materials is related to three-dimensional bulk, rather than to surface, states. A great…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 A. V. Pronin , M. Dressel

Topological semimetals exhibit band crossings near the Fermi energy, which are protected by the nontrivial topological character of the wave functions. In many cases, these topological band degeneracies give rise to exotic surface states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 Jonathan Zhang , Y. -H. Chan , Ching-Kai Chiu , Maia G. Vergniory , Leslie M. Schoop , Andreas P. Schnyder

The electronic structure of Sb(110) is studied by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and first-principle calculations, revealing several electronic surface states in the projected bulk band gaps around the Fermi energy. The…

Topological semimetals, including Dirac semimetals, Weyl semimetals, and nodal line semimetals, receive enormous research interest due to their intrinsic topological nature and fascinating properties. In present work, with the help of…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-17 P. Zhou , Z. S. Ma , L. Z. Sun

In this work, we present a model of the surface states of nonsymmorphic semimetals. These are derived from surface mass terms that lift the high degeneracy imposed in the band structure by the nonsymmorphic bulk symmetries. Reflecting the…

Topological interpretations of phonons facilitate a new platform for novel concepts in phonon physics. Though there are ubiquitous set of reports on topological electronic excitations, the same for phonons are extremely limited. Here, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-17 P. C. Sreeparvathy , Chiranjit Mondal , Chanchal K. Barman , Aftab Alam

The chiral anomaly is a phenomenon characteristic of Weyl fermions, which has condensed matter realizations in Weyl semimetals. Efforts to observe smoking gun signatures of the chiral anomaly in Weyl semimetals have mostly focused on a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-30 Aaron Hui , Yi Zhang , Eun-Ah Kim

We study a two-dimensional fermionic square lattice, which supports the existence of two-dimensional Weyl semimetal, quantum anomalous Hall effect, and $2\pi$-flux topological semimetal in different parameter ranges. We show that the band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-27 Jing-Min Hou

Topological phonons in crystalline materials have been attracting great interest. However, most cases studied so far are direct generalizations of the topological states from electronic systems. Here, we reveal a novel class of topological…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-06 Jiaojiao Zhu , Weikang Wu , Jianzhou Zhao , Hao Chen , Lifa Zhang , Shengyuan A. Yang

We theoretically analyze the Fano interference in a single impurity multi-Weyl semimetal hybrid system and show the emergence of the topological charge Fano effect in the bulk local density of states. In multi-Weyl semimetals, the number of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-27 W. C. Silva , W. N. Mizobata , J. E. Sanches , L. S. Ricco , I. A. Shelykh , M. de Souza , M. S. Figueira , E. Vernek , A. C. Seridonio

We use tunable, vacuum ultraviolet laser-based angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and density functional theory calculations to study the electronic properties of Dirac semimetal candidate cubic PtBi${}_{2}$. In addition to bulk…

We explore Weyl and Dirac semimetals with tilted nodes as platforms for realizing an intrinsic superconducting diode effect. Although tilting breaks sufficient spatial and time-reversal symmetries, we prove that -- at least for conventional…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-02-28 Kai Chen , Bishnu Karki , Pavan Hosur

Topological semimetals (TSMs) in which conduction and valence bands cross at zero-dimensional (0D) Dirac nodal points (DNPs) or 1D Dirac nodal lines (DNLs), in 3D momentum space, have recently drawn much attention due to their exotic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Jianfeng Wang , Yizhou Liu , Kyung-Hwan Jin , Xuelei Sui , Wenhui Duan , Feng Liu , Bing Huang

Using first--principles density functional calculations, we systematically investigate electronic structures and topological properties of InNbX2 (X=S, Se). In the absence of spin--orbit coupling (SOC), both compounds show nodal lines…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-03 Yongping Du , Xiangyan Bo , Di Wang , Er-jun Kan , Chun-Gang Duan , Sergey Y. Savrasov , Xiangang Wan

Topological semimetal, hosting spin-1 Weyl point beyond Dirac and Weyl points, has attracted a great deal of attention. However, the spin-1 Weyl semimetal, which possesses exclusively the spin-1 Weyl points in a clean frequency window,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-25 Weiyin Deng , Xueqin Huang , Jiuyang Lu , Feng Li , Jiahong Ma , Shuqi Chen , Zhengyou Liu

We study the electronic surface states of the semiconducting alloy BiSb. Using a phenomenological tight binding model we show that the Fermi surface of the 111 surface states encloses an odd number of time reversal invariant momenta (TRIM)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jeffrey C. Y. Teo , Liang Fu , C. L. Kane

Topological semimetals have recently attracted great attention due to prospective applications governed by their peculiar Fermi surfaces. Weyl semimetals host chiral fermions that manifest as pairs of non-degenerate massless Weyl points in…

Nonsymmorphic symmetries can give rise to Dirac semimetal (DSM) states. However, few studies have been conducted on DSMs in interacting systems. Here, we induce interacting DSM states in nonsymmorphic iridium oxides SrIrO$_3$, BaIrO$_3$ and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-18 Zhi-Ming Yang , Huan Li