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The surface of a Weyl semimetal (WSM) displays Fermi arcs, i.e. disjoint segments of a two-dimensional Fermi contour. We present a quantum-mechanical non-local theory of chiral Fermi arc plasmons in WSMs with broken time-reversal symmetry.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-02 Gian Marcello Andolina , Francesco M. D. Pellegrino , Frank H. L. Koppens , Marco Polini

Weyl semimetals harbor unusual surface states known as Fermi arcs, which are essentially disjoint segments of a two dimensional Fermi surface. We describe a prescription for obtaining Fermi arcs of arbitrary shape and connectivity by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-11-08 Pavan Hosur

Smooth interfaces of topological systems are known to host massive surface states along with the topologically protected chiral one. We show that in Weyl semimetals these massive states, along with the chiral Fermi arc, strongly alter the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Xin Lu , Dibya Kanti Mukherjee , Mark O. Goerbig

The Fermi arcs of topological surface states in the three-dimensional multi-Weyl semimetals on surfaces by a continuum model are investigated systematically. We calculated analytically the energy spectra and wave function for bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-03 Y. C. Liu , V. Wang , J. B. Lin , J. Nara

Weyl fermions1 do not appear in nature as elementary particles, but they are now found to exist as nodal points in the band structure of electronic and classical wave crystals. Novel phenomena such as Fermi arcs and chiral anomaly have…

Optics · Physics 2016-10-17 Qiang Wang , Meng Xiao , Hui Liu , Xiangang Wan , Shining Zhu , C. T. Chan

This study presents Fermi-arcs mediated transport in a Weyl semimetal thin slab, interfacing two $s$-wave superconductors. We present detailed study with both time-reversal and inversion symmetry broken Weyl semimetals under grounding,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-29 Rekha Kumari , Dibya Kanti Mukherjee , Arijit Kundu

The Weyl semimetal is a new quantum state of topological semimetal, of which topological surface states -- the Fermi arcs exist. In this paper, the Fermi arcs in Weyl semimetals are classified into two classes -- class-1 and class-2. Based…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-14 Xiao-Ming Zhao , Xiao Kong , Cui-Xian Guo , Ya-Jie Wu , Su-Peng Kou

The Weyl semimetal phase is a recently discovered topological quantum state of matter characterized by the presence of topologically protected degeneracies near the Fermi level. These degeneracies are the source of exotic phenomena,…

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

The Weyl semimetal surface is modeled by applying the Bogolyubov boundary conditions, in which the quasiparticles have an infinite Dirac mass outside the semimetal. For a Weyl semimetal shaped as a slab of finite thickness, we derive an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-19 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , P. O. Sukhachov

The Weyl particle is the massless fermionic cousin of the photon. While no fundamental Weyl particles have been identified, they arise in condensed matter and meta-material systems, where their spinor nature imposes topological constraints…

The topology of the Fermi surface significantly influences the transport properties of a material. Firstly measured through quantum oscillation experiments, the Fermi surfaces of crystals are now commonly characterized using angle-resolved…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-22 F. Balduini , L. Rocchino , A. Molinari , T. Paul , G. Mariani , V. Hasse , C. Felser , C. Zota , H. Schmid , B. Gotsmann

Weyl semimetals constitute a newly discovered class of three-dimensional topological materials with linear touchings of valence and conduction bands in the bulk. The most striking property of topological origin in these materials, so far…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 Stefanos Kourtis , Jian Li , Zhijun Wang , Ali Yazdani , B. Andrei Bernevig

Three-dimensional Weyl semimetals have pairs of topologically protected Weyl nodes, whose projections onto the surface Brillouin zone are the end points of zero energy surface states called Fermi arcs. At the endpoints of the Fermi arcs,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Faruk Abdulla , Sumathi Rao , Ganpathy Murthy

Weyl semimetals are conductors whose low-energy bulk excitations are Weyl fermions, whereas their surfaces possess metallic Fermi arc surface states. These Fermi arc surface states are protected by a topological invariant associated with…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-24 M. Zahid Hasan , Su-Yang Xu , Ilya Belopolski , Shin-Ming Huang

We systematically investigate the properties of bulk, surface and edge plasmons in Weyl semimetals in presence of a magnetic field. It is found that unidirectional plasmons with different properties exist on different surfaces, which is in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 Furu Zhang , Yang Gao , Wei Zhang

One remarkable feature of Weyl semimetals is the manifestation of their topological nature in the form of the Fermi-arc surface states. In a recent calculation by \cite{Johansson2018}, the current-induced spin polarization or Edelstein…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Kridsanaphong Limtragool , Krisakron Pasanai

Fermi arc states are features of Weyl semimetal (WSM) surfaces which are robust due to the topological character of the bulk band structure. We demonstrate that Fermi arcs may undergo profound restructurings when surfaces of different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-01 Ganpathy Murthy , Herbert A Fertig , Efrat Shimshoni

Fermi-arc surface states of Weyl semimetals exhibit a unique combination of localization to a surface and connectivity to the bulk Weyl fermions that can move along the localization direction. We predict anomalous quantum-oscillation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-11 Adam Yanis Chaou , Vatsal Dwivedi , Maxim Breitkreiz

The surface states of Weyl semi-metals (SM's) consist of disjointed Fermi-arcs. This unusual surface-Fermiology provides a fingerprint of the topological features of the bulk Weyl-phase. Using a combination of semiclassical and numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-22 Andrew C. Potter , Itamar Kimchi , Ashvin Vishwanath