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The interplay of electronic band structures and electron-electron interactions is known to brew new phases in condensed matter. In this paper, we investigate thermodynamic phases and corresponding electronic structures of the Weyl semimetal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-22 Liang-Jun Zhai , Po-Hao Chou , Chung-Yu Mou

Weyl fermions as emergent quasiparticles can arise in Weyl semimetals (WSMs) in which the energy bands are nondegenerate, resulting from inversion or time-reversal symmetry breaking. Nevertheless, experimental evidence for magnetically…

We determine the antisymmetric current-current response for a pair of (type I) tilted Weyl cones with opposite chirality. We find that the dynamical chiral magnetic effect depends on the magnitude of the tilt and on the angle between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 E. C. I. van der Wurff , H. T. C. Stoof

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

Electrons in materials with linear dispersion behave as massless Weyl- or Dirac-quasiparticles, and continue to intrigue physicists due to their close resemblance to elusive ultra-relativistic particles as well as their potential for future…

Condensed-matter provides attractive platforms to realize exotic particles, originally proposed in high-energy physics. Weyl semimetal (WSM) is a material in which low-energy collective excitations are governed by massless Weyl fermions,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-20 Amar Bharti

Quantum anomalies in Weyl semimetal (for either ${\bf E}\cdot{\bf B} \neq 0$ or ${\bf \nabla}T\cdot{\bf B} \neq 0$) leads to chiral charge and energy pumping between the opposite chirality nodes. This results in chiral charge and energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Kamal Das , Amit Agarwal

Spin field effect transistors (SpinFET) are an iconic class of spintronic devices that exploit gate tuned spin-orbit interaction in semiconductor channels interposed between ferromagnetic source and drain contacts to elicit transistor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-08 Rahnuma Rahman , Supriyo Bandyopadhyay

We consider effects of spatial dispersion in noncentrosymmetric time-reversal invariant Weyl metals in the presence of a static magnetic field. In particular, we study currents that are linear in both the spatial derivatives of an applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 S. Nandy , D. A. Pesin

The co-occurrence of phase transitions with local and global order parameters, such as the entangled magnetization and topological invariant, is attractive but has been seldom realized experimentally. Here, by using high-pressure in-situ…

Electrical control of the non-trivial topology in Weyl antiferromagnet is of great interests to develop next-generation spintronic devices. Recent works suggest that spin Hall effect can switch the topological antiferromagnetic order.…

Topological quantum materials (TQMs) possess abundant and attractive spin physics, and a Weyl semimetal is the representative material because of the generation of spin polarization that is available for spin devices due to fictitious Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-28 Kosuke Ohnishi , Motomi Aoki , Ryo Ohshima , Ei Shigematsu , Yuichiro Ando , Taishi Takenobu , Masashi Shiraishi

Spin-1 chiral semimetal is a new state of quantum matter hosting unconventional chiral fermions that extend beyond the common Dirac and Weyl fermions. B20-type CoSi is a prototypal material that accommodates such an exotic quasiparticle. To…

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

The interplay between magnetic ordering and band topology has emerged as a fertile ground for discovering novel quantum states with profound implications for fundamental physics and next-generation electronics. Here, we theoretically…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-09 Qingqing Li , Li Chen , Run-Wu Zhang , Botao Fu

Altermagnets (AMs) - magnetic materials that have spin-split bandstructure with zero net spin polarization can be classified as weak or strong depending upon the strength of altermagnetic term in the Hamiltonian. We theoretically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Shubham Ghadigaonkar , Sachchidanand Das , Abhiram Soori

Recently discovered Weyl semimetals (WSM) have found special place in topological condensed matter studies for they represent first example of massless Weyl fermions found in condensed matter systems. A WSM shows gapless bulk energy spectra…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-23 Satyaki Kar , Arun M Jayannavar

Weyl semimetals (WSMs) are three-dimensional topological materials that exhibit fascinating properties due to the presence of Weyl nodes in their band structure. However, existing WSMs discovered so far often possess multiple pairs of Weyl…

We investigate how tilting affects the off-diagonal, dissipationless response of a pair of chirally imbalanced Weyl cones to various external perturbations. The pair of chirally imbalanced Weyl cones can be described as a chiral electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 E. C. I. van der Wurff , H. T. C. Stoof

Chirality, a characteristic handedness that distinguishes 'left' from 'right', cuts widely across all of nature$^1$, from the structure of DNA$^2$ to opposite chirality of particles and antiparticles$^3$. In condensed matter chiral fermions…