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Weyl nodes are topological objects in three-dimensional metals. Their topological property can be revealed by studying the high-field transport properties of a Weyl semimetal. While the energy of the lowest Landau band (LLB) of a…

Chiral crystals are materials whose lattice structure has a well-defined handedness due to the lack of inversion, mirror, or other roto-inversion symmetries. These crystals represent a broad, important class of quantum materials; their…

Weyl semimetal may be thought of as a gapless topological phase protected by the chiral anomaly, where the symmetries involved in the anomaly are the $U(1)$ charge conservation and the crystal translational symmetry. The absence of a band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-09 Chong Wang , L. Gioia , A. A. Burkov

Weyl semimetals are well-known for hosting topologically protected linear band crossings, serving as the analog of the relativistic Weyl Fermions in the condensed matter context. Such analogy persists deeply, allowing the existence of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-15 Yang Gao

Insulating states can be topologically nontrivial, a well-established notion that is exemplified by the quantum Hall effect and topological insulators. By contrast, topological metals have not been experimentally evidenced until recently.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-09 Hsin-Hua Lai , Sarah E. Grefe , Silke Paschen , Qimiao Si

Unconventional superconducting states of matter are realized in the presence of strong spin orbit coupling. In particular, non degenerate bands can support odd parity superconductivity with rich topological content. Here we study whether…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-16 Huazhou Wei , Sung-Po Chao , Vivek Aji

Weyl semimetals are gapless quasi-topological materials with a set of isolated nodal points forming their Fermi surface. They manifest their quasi-topological character in a series of topological electromagnetic responses including the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-05 Hassan Shapourian , Taylor L. Hughes

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

Altermagnets constitute a novel, third fundamental class of collinear magnetic ordered materials, alongside with ferro- and antiferromagnets. They share with conventional antiferromagnets the feature of a vanishing net magnetization. At the…

The phenomenon of unpaired Weyl fermions appearing on the sole 2n-dimensional boundary of a (2n+1)-dimensional manifold with massive Dirac fermions was recently analyzed in a companion paper by one of the authors. In this Letter we show…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-03-15 David B. Kaplan , Srimoyee Sen

Weyl semimetal is a topologically non-trivial phase of matter with pairs of Weyl nodes in the k-space, which act as monopole and anti-monopole pairs of Berry curvature. Two hallmarks of the Weyl metallic state are the topological surface…

The "Hydrogen atom" of magnetic Weyl semimetals, with the minimum number of Weyl points, have received growing attention recently due to the possible presence of Weyl-related phenomena. Here, we report a nontrivial electronic structure of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-29 Simin Nie , Tatsuki Hashimoto , Fritz B. Prinz

Weyl-semimetal superstructures with a spiraling position of a pair of Weyl nodes of opposite chirality can host a chiral-symmetry preserving Fermi-arc metal state, where the chirality is carried by cylindrical Fermi surfaces, electron- and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 Tommy Li , Maxim Breitkreiz

Weyl semimetals are a newly discovered class of materials that host relativistic massless Weyl fermions as their low-energy bulk excitations. Among this new class of materials, there exist two general types of semimetals that are of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Moon Jip Park , Bora Basa , Matthew J. Gilbert

We show that Weyl semimetals exhibit a mixed axial-torsional anomaly in the presence of axial torsion, a concept exclusive of these materials with no known natural fundamental interpretation in terms of the geometry of spacetime. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-13 Yago Ferreiros , Yaron Kedem , Emil J. Bergholtz , Jens H. Bardarson

Weyl superconductivity or superfluidity, a fascinating topological state of matter, features novel phenomena such as emergent Weyl fermionic excitations and anomalies. Here we report that an anisotropic Weyl superfluid state can arise as a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-01-30 Bo Liu , Xiaopeng Li , Lan Yin , W. Vincent Liu

We report the direct evidence of impacts of the Coulomb interaction in a prototypical Weyl semimetal, MoTe2, that alter its bare bands in a wide range of energy and momentum. Our quasiparticle interference patterns measured using scanning…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-10 Seoung-Hun Kang , Sangjun Jeon , Hyun-Jung Kim , Wonhee Ko , Suyeon Cho , Se Hwang Kang , Sung Wng Kim , Heejun Yang , Hyo Won Kim , Young-Woo Son

We propose a theoretical scheme to realize two-dimensional higher-order Weyl semimetals using a trilayer topological insulator film coupled with a d-wave altermagnet. Our results show that the trilayer topological insulator exhibits…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Lizhou Liu , Qing-Feng Sun , Ying-Tao Zhang

Weyl electrons are intensely studied due to novel charge transport phenomena such as chiral anomaly, Fermi arcs, and photogalvanic effect. Recent theoretical works suggest that Weyl electrons can also participate in magnetic interactions,…

Revealing the role of Coulomb interaction in topological semimetals with Dirac/Weyl-like band dispersion shapes a new frontier in condensed matter physics. Topological node-line semimetals (TNLSMs), anticipated as a fertile ground for…