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The Weyl semimetal (WSM) is a newly proposed quantum state of matter. It has Weyl nodes in bulk excitations and Fermi arcs surface states. We study the effects of disorder and localization in WSMs and find three exotic phase transitions.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Chui-Zhen Chen , Juntao Song , Hua Jiang , Qing-feng Sun , Ziqiang Wang , X. C. Xie

Topological semimetals materialize a new state of quantum matter where massless fermions protected by a specific crystal symmetry host exotic quantum phenomena. Distinct from well-known Dirac and Weyl fermions, structurally-chiral…

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

A new type of topological state in strongly corrected condensed matter systems, heavy Weyl fermion state, has been found in a heavy fermion material CeRu$_4$Sn$_6$, which has no inversion symmetry. Both two different types of Weyl points,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-03-15 Yuanfeng Xu , Changming Yue , Hongming Weng , Xi Dai

Weyl semimetal with Weyl fermions at Fermi energy is one of the topological materials, and is a condensed-matter realization of the relativistic fermions. However, there are several crucial differences such as the shift of Fermi energy,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Hiroaki Ishizuka , Naoto Nagaosa

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 fermions are two-component chiral fermions in (3+1)-dimensions. When coupled to a gauge field, the Weyl fermion is known to have an axial anomaly, which means the current conservation of the left-handed and right-handed Weyl fermions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-06-13 Chao-Xing Liu , Peng Ye , Xiao-Liang Qi

The Weyl semimetal NbP was found to exhibit topological Fermi arcs and exotic magneto-transport properties. Here, we report on magnetic quantum-oscillation measurements on NbP and construct the 3D Fermi surface with the help of…

By using first-principles calculations, we propose that WC-type ZrTe is a new type of topological semimetal (TSM). It has six pairs of chiral Weyl nodes in its first Brillouin zone, but it is distinguished from other existing TSMs by having…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 Hongming Weng , Chen Fang , Zhong Fang , Xi Dai

Weyl semimetals (WSMs) constitute a 3D phase with linearly-dispersing Weyl excitations at low energy, which lead to unusual electrodynamic responses and open Fermi arcs on boundaries. We derive a simple criterion to identify and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-28 William Witczak-Krempa , Michael Knap , Dmitry Abanin

We report the electrical transport properties for Weyl semimetal TaAs in an intense magnetic field. Series of anomalies occur in the longitudinal magnetoresistance and Hall signals at ultra-low temperatures when the Weyl electrons are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-24 Cheng-Long Zhang , Bingbing Tong , Zhujun Yuan , Ziquan Lin , Junfeng Wang , Jinglei Zhang , Chuan-Ying Xi , Zhong Wang , Shuang Jia , Chi Zhang

A two-dimensional (2D) Weyl semimetal featuring a spin-polarized linear band dispersion and a nodal Fermi surface is a new topological phase of matter. It is a solid-state realization of Weyl fermions in an intrinsic 2D system. The…

There is considerable current interest to explore electronic topology in strongly correlated metals, with heavy fermion systems providing a promising setting. Recently, a Weyl-Kondo semimetal phase has been concurrently discovered in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-01 Sarah E. Grefe , Hsin-Hua Lai , Silke Paschen , Qimiao Si

Weyl degeneracies in spectra of magnetoplasma waves enable nonreciprocal energy flow and topologically protected modes, yet conventional materials require impractical magnetic fields to operate. Developing an effective Hamiltonian framework…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Yuanzhao Wang , Oleg V. Kotov , Dmitry K. Efimkin

Altermagnetic (AM) compounds have recently emerged as a promising platform for realizing unconventional quantum phases, enabled by their unique spin-split band structure at zero net magnetization. Here, we present a first-principles…

Weyl semimetal is a new phase of matter that provides the first solid state realization of chiral Weyl fermions. Most of its unique physics is a consequence of chiral anomaly, namely nonconservation of the number of particles of a given…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-11 Y. Chen , Si Wu , A. A. Burkov

Nonsymmoprhic symmetries, such as screw rotations or glide reflections, can enforce band crossings within high-symmetry lines or planes of the Brillouin zone. When these band degeneracies are close to the Fermi energy, they can give rise to…

We show that a class of compounds with $I$4/$mcm$ crystalline symmetry hosts three-dimensional semi-Dirac fermions. Unlike the known two-dimensional semi-Dirac points, the degeneracy of these three-dimensional semi-Dirac points is not…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-07 Narayan Mohanta , Jong Mok Ok , Jie Zhang , Hu Miao , Elbio Dagotto , Ho Nyung Lee , Satoshi Okamoto

Weyl semimetals are extraordinary systems where exotic phenomena such as Fermi arcs, pseudo-gauge fields and quantum anomalies arise from topological band degeneracy in crystalline solids for electrons and metamaterials for photons and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Li Luo , Hai-Xiao Wang , Bin Jiang , Ying Wu , Zhi-Kang Lin , Feng Li , Jian-Hua Jiang

Weyl semi-metals are three dimensional generalizations of graphene with point-like Fermi surfaces. Their linear electronic dispersion leads to a window in the particle-hole excitation spectrum which allows for undamped propagation of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-16 N. S. Srivatsa , R. Ganesh