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We consider finite-sized interfaces of a Weyl semi-metal and show that the corresponding confinement potential is similar to the application of a magnetic field. Among the numerous states, which can be labeled by indices n like in Landau…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-15 Serguei Tchoumakov , Marcello Civelli , Mark O. Goerbig

Bulk-surface correspondence in Weyl semimetals assures the formation of topological "Fermi-arc" surface bands whose existence is guaranteed by bulk Weyl nodes. By investigating three distinct surface terminations of the ferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-23 Noam Morali , Rajib Batabyal , Pranab Kumar Nag , Enke Liu , Qiunan Xu , Yan Sun , Binghai Yan , Claudia Felser , Nurit Avraham , Haim Beidenkopf

We introduce feedback-measurement technologies to achieve flexible control of Weyl points and conduct the first experimental demonstration of Weyl type I-II transition in mechanical systems. We demonstrate that non-Hermiticity can expand…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-25 Mingsheng Tian , Ivan Velkovsky , Tao Chen , Fengxiao Sun , Qiongyi He , Bryce Gadway

Impurities act as in situ probes of nontrivial electronic structure, causing real-space modulations in the density of states detected by scanning tunneling spectroscopy on the sample surface. We show that distinctive topological features of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-27 Andrew K. Mitchell , Lars Fritz

In Weyl materials the valence and conduction electron bands touch at an even number of isolated points in the Brillouin zone. In the vicinity of these points the electron dispersion is linear and may be described by the massless Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-12 Songci Li , A. V. Andreev

The chiral surface states of Weyl semimetals have an open Fermi surface called Fermi arc. At the interface between two Weyl semimetals, these Fermi arcs are predicted to hybridize and alter their connectivity. In this letter, we numerically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-07 D. -H. -Minh Nguyen , Chiara Devescovi , Dung Xuan Nguyen , Hai Son Nguyen , Dario Bercioux

Weyl semimetal showing open-arc surface states is a prominent example of topological quantum matter in three dimensions. With the bulk-boundary correspondence present, nontrivial surface-bulk hybridization is inevitable but less understood.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Xiao-Xiao Zhang , Naoto Nagaosa

Weyl semimetals are known to host massless surface states called Fermi arcs. These Fermi arcs are the manifestation of the bulk-edge correspondence in topological matter and thus are analogous to the topological chiral surface states of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-09 Dibya Kanti Mukherjee , David Carpentier , Mark Oliver Goerbig

We study viscoelastic response in Weyl semimetals with broken time-reversal symmetry. The principal finding is that topology and anisotropy of the Fermi surface are manifested in the viscoelasticity tensor of the electron fluid. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-24 A. A. Herasymchuk , E. V. Gorbar , P. O. Sukhachov

Most theoretical studies of tunneling in Dirac and the closely related Weyl semimetals have modeled these materials as single Weyl nodes described by the three-dimensional Dirac equation $H = v_f \vec{p}\cdot\vec{\sigma}$. The influence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-04 Zhuo Bin Siu , Can Yesilyurt , Mansoor B. A. Jalil , Seng Ghee Tan

We study longitudinal transport in Weyl semimetal nanowires, both in the absence and in the presence of a magnetic flux threading the nanowires. We identify two qualitatively different regimes of transport with respect to the chemical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-21 Vardan Kaladzhyan , Jens H. Bardarson

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

In topological Weyl semimetals, the low energy excitations are comprised of linearly dispersing Weyl fermions, which act as monopoles of Berry curvature in momentum space and result in topologically protected Fermi arcs on the surfaces. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-06 Timothy M. McCormick , Sarah J. Watzman , Joseph P. Heremans , Nandini Trivedi

In topological physics, one of the most intriguing phenomena is the presence of topological boundary states, accurately predicted by the well-established bulk-edge correspondence. For example, in three-dimensional Weyl semimetals, Fermi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-13 Yingxin Qi , Hanyu Wang , Qinghua Guo , Zhihong Zhu , Biao Yang

The disjointed Fermi-arcs in Weyl semimetals can intertwine with chiral bulk modes and participate in unusual closed magnetic orbits in the presence of a vertical magnetic field. Here we carry out the quantum oscillation study of such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Guolin Zheng , Min Wu , Hongwei Zhang , Weiwei Chu , Wenshuai Gao , Jianwen Lu , Yuyan Han , Jiyong Yang , Haifeng Du , Wei Ning , Yuheng Zhang , Mingliang Tian

Distinct to type-I Weyl semimetals (WSMs) that host quasiparticles described by the Weyl equation, the energy dispersion of quasiparticles in type-II WSMs violates Lorentz invariance and the Weyl cones in the momentum space are tilted.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-07 M. -Y. Yao , N. Xu , Q. Wu , G. Autès , N. Kumar , V. N. Strocov , N. C. Plumb , M. Radovic , O. V. Yazyev , C. Felser , J. Mesot , M. Shi

By making use of a low-energy effective model of Weyl semimetals, we show that the Fermi arc transport is dissipative. The origin of the dissipation is the scattering of the surface Fermi arc states into the bulk of the semimetal. It is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-27 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , P. O. Sukhachov

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…

Weyl semimetals are a new paradigmatic topological phase of matter featuring a gapless spectrum. One of its most distinctive features is the presence of Fermi arc surface states. Here, we report on atomistic simulations of the dc…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-20 Jose Chesta Lopez , Luis E. F. Foa Torres , Alvaro S. Nunez

We report the discovery of a time-reversal symmetric Weyl semimetal obtained by modifying a model Hamiltonian describing the electronic properties of conventional alkali metals. The artificially generated Weyl semimetal features four…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-06-11 Joseba Goikoetxea , Jorge Bravo-Abad , Jaime Merino