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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…

In ultra-thin film of topological insulator, the hybridization between the top and bottom surfaces opens an energy gap and forms two degenerate quantum anomalous Hall states, which give rise to a quantum spin Hall state. In this paper, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-05-10 S. A. Owerre

The Weyl-Mott insulator (WMI) has been postulated as a novel type of correlated insulator with non-trivial topological properties. We introduce a minimal microscopic model that captures generic features of the WMI transition in Weyl…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-27 Manuel Fernández López , Iñaki García-Elcano , Jorge Bravo-Abad , Jaime Merino

We construct a top-down holographic model of Weyl semimetal states using $(3+1)$-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric $SU(N_c)$ Yang-Mills theory, at large $N_c$ and strong coupling, coupled to a number $N_f \ll N_c$ of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-31 Kazem Bitaghsir Fadafan , Andy O'Bannon , Ronnie Rodgers , Matthew Russell

We review recent theoretical and experimental developments in magnetic Weyl semimetals, focusing on the electromagnetic responses emerging from the interplay of their electronic band topology and magnetism. We begin by introducing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Akihiro Ozawa , Yasufumi Araki , Koji Kobayashi , Kentaro Nomura

We study dynamical mass generation and the resultant helical spin orders in topological Dirac and Weyl semimetals, including the edge states of quantum spin Hall insulators, the surface states of weak topological insulators, and the bulk…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-08-14 Xiao-Qi Sun , Shou-Cheng Zhang , Zhong Wang

In a slab geometry with large surface-to-bulk ratio, topological surface states such as Fermi arcs for Weyl or Dirac semimetals may dominate their low-energy properties. We investigate the collective charge oscillations in such systems,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-10 Debasmita Giri , Dibya Kanti Mukherjee , Sonu Verma , H. A. Fertig , Arijit Kundu

We study dispersions of Fermi arcs in the Weyl semimetal phase by constructing a simple effective model. We calculate how the surface Fermi-arc dispersions for the top- and bottom surfaces merge into the bulk Dirac cones in the Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-30 Ryo Okugawa , Shuichi Murakami

Topological quantum materials, including topological insulators and superconductors, Dirac semimetals and Weyl semimetals, have attracted much attention recently for their unique electronic structure, spin texture and physical properties.…

In metallic condensed matter systems two different types of Weyl fermions can in principle emerge, with either a vanishing (type-I) or with a finite (type-II) density of states at the Weyl node energy. So far only WTe2 and MoTe2 were…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-05-25 K. Koepernik , D. Kasinathan , D. V. Efremov , Seunghyun Khim , Sergey Borisenko , Bernd Büchner , Jeroen van den Brink

Fermi arcs are one of the characteristic features of Weyl semimetals, appearing as surface states that connect Weyl points with opposite chiralities. It has also been suggested that Fermi arcs can emerge in the bulk due to the interplay…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-22 Yuta Furusho , Tomonari Meguro , Kentaro Nomura

Weyl semimetals are characterized by their bulk Weyl points -- conical band touching points that carry a topological monopole charge -- and Fermi arc states that span between the Weyl points on the surface of the material. Recently,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-13 Guangze Chen , Wei Chen , Oded Zilberberg

We report discovery of a Weyl Fermion semimetal and Topological Fermi arcs in TaAs

Weyl semimetals are phases of matter with gapless electronic excitations that are protected by topology and symmetry. Their properties depend on the dimensions of the systems. It has been theoretically demonstrated that five-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-20 Xingen Zheng , Tian Chen , Weixuan Zhang , Houjun Sun , Xiangdong Zhang

Topological Weyl semimetal (TWS) is a metal, where low energy excitations behave like Weyl fermions of high-energy physics. It was recently shown that due to the lower symmetry of condensed matter systems, they can realize two distinct…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-18 Wenhan Zhang , Quansheng Wu , Lunyong Zhang , Sang-Wook Cheong , Alexey A. Soluyanov , Weida Wu

Recent breakthrough in search for the analogs of fundamental particles in condensed matter systems lead to experimental realizations of 3D Dirac and Weyl semimetals. Weyl state can be hosted either by non-centrosymmetric or magnetic…

We show that under the effect of an external electric field and a gradient of chemical potential, a topological electric current can be induced in Weyl semimetals without inversion and mirror symmetries. We derive analytic expressions for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 R. Flores-Calderón , A. Martín-Ruiz

Magnetic Weyl semimetal (MWS) is a unique topological state with open surface Fermi arc states and other exotic transport phenomena. However, most reported MWSs show multiple pairs of Weyl points and complicated Fermi surfaces, which…

Weyl electrons are intensely studied due to novel charge transport phenomena such as chiral anomaly, Fermi arcs, and photogalvanic effect. Recent theoretical works suggest that Weyl electrons can also participate in magnetic interactions,…

Weyl semimetals are gapless quasi-topological materials with a set of isolated nodal points forming their Fermi surface. They manifest their quasi-topological character in a series of topological electromagnetic responses including the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-05 Hassan Shapourian , Taylor L. Hughes