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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

The surface Fermi arc, as a hallmark of Weyl semimetals (WSMs), has been well known in current research, but it remains a challenge to unveil novel phenomena associated with the Fermi arc. Here, we predict a heretofore unrecognized process…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Jin Cao , Maoyuan Wang , Zhi-Ming Yu , Yugui Yao

In condensed matter systems, chiral topological nodes are robust band crossing points in momentum space that carry nonzero Chern numbers. The chirality is manifested by the presence of surface Fermi arcs connecting the projections of nodes…

We analyze the structure of the surface states and Fermi arcs of Weyl semimetals as a function of the boundary conditions parameterizing the Hamiltonian self-adjoint extensions of a minimal model with two Weyl points. These boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Michele Burrello , Enore Guadagnini , Luca Lepori , Mihail Mintchev

Recently, time-reversal symmetry broken magnetic Weyl semimetals (WSMs) have attracted extensive attention and have provided an intriguing platform for exploring fundamental physical phenomena. The study of chromium telluride-based systems…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-26 Anumita Bose , Shubham Purwar , Setti Thirupathaiah , Awadhesh Narayan

The quantum Hall effect in three-dimensional Weyl semimetal (WSM) receives significant attention for the emergence of the Fermi loop where the underlying two-dimensional Hall conductivity, namely, sheet Hall conductivity, shows quantized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-02 Feng Xiong , Carsten Honerkamp , Dante M. Kennes , Tanay Nag

The discovery of topological states of matter has led to a revolution in materials research. When external or intrinsic parameters break certain symmetries, global properties of topological materials change drastically. A paramount example…

Chiral fermionic quasiparticles emerge in certain quantum condensed matter systems such as Weyl semimetals, topological insulators, and spin-orbit coupled noncentrosymmetric metals. Here, a comprehensive theory of the chiral anomaly-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 Azaz Ahmad , Gautham Varma K. , Gargee Sharma

We study the effects of tunnelling on the band structure and Fermi arc of a time-reversal broken Weyl semimetal (WSM). When coupled to a non-magnetic parabolic band, the WSM's chiral arc state lowers in energy and forms, together with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-24 L. Goutte , T. Pereg-Barnea

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

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,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-27 Ki-Seok Kim , Heon-Jung Kim , M. Sasaki , J. -F. Wang , L. Li

We study the anomalous Nernst and thermal Hall effects in a linearized low-energy model of a tilted Weyl semimetal, with two Weyl nodes separated in momentum space. For inversion symmetric tilt, we give analytic expressions in two opposite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Yago Ferreiros , A. A. Zyuzin , Jens H. Bardarson

We investigate novel features of three dimensional non-Hermitian Weyl semimetals, paying special attention to its unconventional bulk-boundary correspondence. We use the non-Bloch Chern numbers as the tool to obtain the topological phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-05 Xiaosen Yang , Yang Cao , Yunjia Zhai

We consider a Weyl semimetal with two nodes and derive the scattering Hamiltonian in the presence of a boundary at $z=0$. We compute the photoemission spectrum and demonstrate the presence of the Fermi arcs which connect the two nodes. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-25 D. Schmeltzer

The Fermi surface of a conventional two-dimensional electron gas is equivalent to a circle, up to smooth deformations that preserve the orientation of the equi-energy contour. Here we show that a Weyl semimetal confined to a thin film with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-09 N. Bovenzi , M. Breitkreiz , T. E. O'Brien , J. Tworzydlo , C. W. J. Beenakker

We generalize a semiclassical theory and use the argument of angular momentum conservation to examine the ballistic transport in lightly-doped Weyl semimetals, taking into account various phase-space Berry curvatures. We predict universal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-14 Shengyuan A. Yang , Hui Pan , Fan Zhang

We continue our recently proposed holographic description of single-particle correlation functions for four-dimensional chiral fermions with Lifshitz scaling at zero chemical potential, paying particular attention to the dynamical exponent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-11 Umut Gursoy , Vivian Jacobs , Erik Plauschinn , Henk Stoof , Stefan Vandoren

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

Weyl semimetals (WSMs) have Weyl nodes where conduction and valence bands meet in the absence of inversion or time-reversal symmetry (TRS), or both. Interesting phenomena are expected in WSMs such as the chiral magnetic effect, anomalous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 John W. Villanova , Kyungwha Park

Three-dimensional Weyl fermions are found to emerge from simple cubic lattices with staggered fluxes. The mechanism is to gap the quadratic band touching by time-reversal-symmetry-breaking hoppings. The system exhibits rich phase diagrams…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-04-03 Jian-Hua Jiang