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Weyl semimetals typically appear in systems in which either time-reversal (T) or inversion (P}) symmetry are broken. Here we show that in the presence of gauge potentials these topological states of matter can also arise in fermionic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-08-08 L. Lepori , I. C. Fulga , A. Trombettoni , M. Burrello

We study the generic band structures of the five-dimensional (5D) Weyl semimetal, in which the band degeneracies are 2D Weyl surfaces in the momentum space, and may have non-trivial linkings with each other if they carry nonzero second…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-01 Jing-Yuan Chen , Biao Lian , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Topological Weyl semimetals (TWS) can be classified as type-I TWS, in which the density of states vanishes at the Weyl nodes, and type-II TWS where an electron and a hole pocket meet with finite density of states at the nodal energy. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-01 Timothy M. McCormick , Itamar Kimchi , Nandini Trivedi

Floquet engineering provides a powerful and flexible method for modifying the band structures of quantum materials. While circularly polarized light has been shown to convert curved nodal lines in three-dimensional semimetals into Weyl…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-27 Dongling Liu , Zheng-Yang Zhuang , Zhongbo Yan

Surface Fermi arcs are the most prominent manifestation of the topological nature of Weyl semimetals. In the presence of a static magnetic field oriented perpendicular to the sample surface, their existence leads to unique inter-surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-22 Yuval Baum , Erez Berg , S. A. Parameswaran , Ady Stern

We propose a one-parameter family of noninteracting lattice models for Weyl semimetals with 4 Weyl nodes and tunable Fermi arcs. These 2-band model Hamiltonians are time-reversal symmetric with $\mathrm{T}^2 = + 1$, and tuning the parameter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Vatsal Dwivedi , Srinidhi T Ramamurthy

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…

Exhaustive study of topological semimetal phases of matter in equilibriated electonic systems and myriad extensions has built upon the foundations laid by earlier introduction and study of the Weyl semimetal, with broad applications in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-23 Adipta Pal , Joe H. Winter , Ashley M. Cook

Based on $ab$ $initio$ calculations and low-energy effective $k{\cdot}p$ model, we propose a type of Weyl nodal point-line fermion, composed of 0D Weyl points and 1D Weyl nodal line, in ferromagnetic material Eu$_5$Bi$_3$. In the absence of…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-13 Hongbo Wu , Da-Shuai Ma , Botao Fu , Wei Guo , Yugui Yao

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

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

Topological Weyl semimetals represent a novel class of non-trivial materials, where band crossings with linear dispersions take place at generic momenta across reciprocal space. These crossings give rise to low-energy properties akin to…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-12 Davide Grassano , Nicola Marzari , Davide Campi

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

In the time-reversal-breaking centrosymmetric systems, the appearance of Weyl points can be guaranteed by an odd number of all the even/odd parity occupied bands at eight inversion-symmetry-invariant momenta. Here, based on symmetry…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-05-06 Yuting Qian , Jiacheng Gao , Zhida Song , Simin Nie , Zhijun Wang , Hongming Weng , Zhong Fang

Weyl semi-metals are three dimensional generalizations of graphene with point-like Fermi surfaces. Their linear electronic dispersion leads to a window in the particle-hole excitation spectrum which allows for undamped propagation of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-16 N. S. Srivatsa , R. Ganesh

Weyl and Dirac semimetals are three dimensional phases of matter with gapless electronic excitations that are protected by topology and symmetry. As three dimensional analogs of graphene, they have generated much recent interest. Deep…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-31 N. P. Armitage , E. J. Mele , Ashvin Vishwanath

Weyl semimetals (WSMs) have recently attracted a great deal of attention as they provide condensed matter realization of chiral anomaly, feature topologically protected Fermi arc surface states and sustain sharp chiral Weyl quasiparticles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 Robert-Jan Slager , Vladimir Juricic , Bitan Roy

Lorentz-violating type-II Weyl fermions, which were missed in Weyl's prediction of nowadays classified type-I Weyl fermions in quantum field theory, have recently been proposed in condensed matter systems. The semimetals hosting type-II…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-28 Zhaoju Yang , Baile Zhang

Topological insulators and topological semimetals are both new classes of quantum materials, which are characterized by surface states induced by the topology of the bulk band structure. Topological Dirac or Weyl semimetals show linear…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-06-21 Binghai Yan , Claudia Felser

We propose a new topological quantum state of matter---the two-dimensional (2D) Weyl half semimetal (WHS), which features 2D Weyl points at Fermi level belonging to a single spin channel, such that the low-energy electrons are described by…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-28 Jing-Yang You , Cong Chen , Zhen Zhang , Xian-Lei Sheng , Shengyuan A. Yang , Gang Su