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We consider the properties of the type II Weyl semimetals at low temperatures basing on the particular tight - binding model. In the presence of electric field directed along the line connecting the Weyl points of opposite chirality the…

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Landau's Fermi-liquid theory is the standard model for metals, characterized by the existence of electron quasiparticles near a Fermi surface as long as Landau's interaction parameters lie below critical values for instabilities. Recently,…

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Quantum topological materials, exemplified by topological insulators, three-dimensional Dirac semimetals and Weyl semimetals, have attracted much attention recently because of their unique electronic structure and physical properties. Very…

The discoveries of Dirac and Weyl semimetal states in spin-orbit compounds led to the realizations of elementary particle analogs in table-top experiments. In this paper, we propose the concept of a three-dimensional type-II Dirac fermion…

Log-periodic quantum oscillations discovered in transition-metal pentatelluride give a clear demonstration of discrete scale invariance (DSI) in solid-state materials. The peculiar phenomenon is convincingly interpreted as the presence of…

The linear band crossings of 3D Dirac and Weyl semimetals are characterized by a charge chirality, the parallel or anti-parallel locking of electron spin to its momentum. Such materials are believed to exhibit a ${\bf E} \cdot {\bf B}$…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-01 Bing Cheng , Timo Schumann , Susanne Stemmer , N. P. Armitage

Weyl semimetals exhibit exotic Fermi-arc surface states, which strongly affect their electromagnetic properties. We derive analytical expressions for all components of the composite density-spin response tensor for the surfaces states of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-07 Sayandip Ghosh , Carsten Timm

Gapless Weyl semimetals (WSMs) are a novel class of topological materials that host massless Weyl fermions as their low-energy excitations. When the Weyl cone is tilted, the Lorentz invariance is broken and the Lifshitz transition drives…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-18 Yi-Xiang Wang , Fuxiang Li

Magnetic topological materials represent a class of compounds whose properties are strongly influenced by the topology of the electronic wavefunctions coupled with the magnetic spin configuration. Such materials can support chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-08 B. Andrei Bernevig , Claudia Felser , Haim Beidenkopf

In disordered Weyl semimetals, mechanisms of topological origin lead to the protection against Anderson localization, and at the same time to different types of transverse electromagnetic response -- the anomalous Hall, and chiral magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-01 Alexander Altland , Dmitry Bagrets

The dislocation in Dirac semimetal carries an emergent magnetic flux parallel to the dislocation axis. We show that due to the emergent magnetic field the dislocation accommodates a single fermion massless mode of the corresponding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-15 M. N. Chernodub , Mikhail Zubkov

Anisotropic bulk Dirac (or Weyl) cones in three dimensional systems have recently gained intense research interest as they are examples of materials with tilted Dirac (or Weyl) cones indicatig the violation of Lorentz invariance. In…

When magnetic field $B$ is applied to a metal, nearly all observable quantities exhibit oscillations periodic in $1/B$. Such quantum oscillations reflect the fundamental reorganization of electron states into Landau levels as a canonical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-18 Tianyu Liu , D. I. Pikulin , M. Franz

The rich order parameter of Spin Density Waves allows for unusual object of a complex topological nature: a half-integer dislocation combined with a semi-vortex of a staggered magnetization. It becomes energetically preferable to ordinary…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Kirova , S. Brazovskii

The emergent Weyl modes with the broken time-reversal symmetry or inversion symmetry provide large Berry curvature and chirality to carriers, offering the realistic platforms to explore topology of electrons in three-dimensional systems.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Jingyuan Zhong , Jianfeng Wang , Ming Yang , Jie Liu , Zhizhen Ren , Anping Huang , Zhixiang Shi , Zengwei Zhu , Yan Shi , Weichang Hao , Jincheng Zhuang , Yi Du

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 study the quantum critical phenomena emerging at the transition from triple-Weyl semimetal to band insulator, which is a topological phase transition described by the change of topological invariant. The critical point realizes a new…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-17 Jing-Rong Wang , Guo-Zhu Liu , Chang-Jin Zhang

The discovery of a chiral anomaly in Weyl semimetals, the non-conservation of chiral charge and energy across two opposite chirality Weyl nodes, has sparked immense interest in understanding its impact on various physical phenomena. Here,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Sunit Das , Kamal Das , Amit Agarwal

Constructing an effective field theory in terms of doped magnetic impurities (described by an O(3) vector model with a random mass term), itinerant electrons of spin-orbit coupled semiconductors (given by a Dirac theory with a relatively…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-28 Kyoung-Min Kim , Jinsu Kim , Soo-Whan Kim , Myung-Hwa Jung , Ki-Seok Kim

Dirac semimetals of the form $A$Mn$X_2$ ($A =$ alkaline-earth or divalent rare earth; $X =$ Bi, Sb) host conducting square-net Dirac-electron layers of $X$ atoms interleaved with antiferromagnetic Mn$X$ layers. In these materials, canted…