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The interplay between electronic interactions and strong spin-orbit coupling is expected to create a plethora of fascinating correlated topological states of quantum matter. Of particular interest are magnetic Weyl semimetals originally…

Topological semimetals, particularly Weyl semimetals (WSMs), are crucial platforms for exploring emergent quantum phenomena due to their unique electronic structures and potential to transition into various topological phases. In this…

Weyl semimetals possess unique electrodynamic properties due to a combination of strongly anisotropic and gyrotropic bulk conductivity, surface conductivity, and surface dipole layer. We explore the potential of popular tip-enhanced optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-01 Qianfan Chen , Maria Erukhimova , Mikhail Tokman , Alexey Belyanin

Multi-band touchings such as 3-band, 6-band and 8-band touchings together with the emergence of high pseudospin fermions were predicted recently at high-symmetry points in three-dimensional space. In this paper, we propose a simple cubic…

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Currently, topological semimetals are being actively investigated from both theoretical and experimental perspectives due to their unique physical properties, including topologically protected states, large magnetoresistivity, and high…

Hall effect of topological quantum materials often reveals essential new physics and possesses potential for application. Magnetic Weyl semimetal is one especially interesting example that hosts an interplay between the spontaneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-18 Xiao-Xiao Zhang , Naoto Nagaosa

Weyl semimetals are new states of matter which feature novel Fermi arcs and exotic transport phenomena. Based on first-principles calculations, we report that the chalcopyrites CuTlSe2, AgTlTe2, AuTlTe2 and ZnPbAs2 are ideal Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-06 Jiawei Ruan , Shao-Kai Jian , Dongqin Zhang , Hong Yao , Haijun Zhang , Shou-Cheng Zhang , Dingyu Xing

Experiments show that the Weyl semimetal PtBi$_2$ hosts unconventional superconductivity in its topological surface states. Hence, the material is a candidate for intrinsic topological superconductivity. Measurements indicate nodal gaps in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-16 Kristian Mæland , Giorgio Sangiovanni , Björn Trauzettel

Topological elastic metamaterials provide a topologically robust way to manipulate the phononic energy and information beyond the conventional approaches. Among various topological elastic metamaterials, Weyl elastic metamaterials stand…

Weyl fermions are massless chiral quasiparticles existing in materials known as Weyl semimetals. Topological surface states, associated with the unusual electronic structure in the Weyl semimetals, have been recently demonstrated in linear…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-18 Ce Shang , Yuanlin Zheng , Boris A. Malomed

Weyl semimetals (WSMs) are characterized by topologically stable pairs of nodal points in the band structure, that typically originate from splitting a degenerate Dirac point by breaking symmetries such as time reversal or inversion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-29 L. Crippa , A. Amaricci , N. Wagner , G. Sangiovanni , J. C. Budich , M. Capone

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

Topological Weyl semimetal (TWS), a new state of quantum matter, has sparked enormous research interest recently. Possessing unique Weyl fermions in the bulk and Fermi arcs on the surface, TWSs offer a rare platform for realizing many…

Layered transition metal chalcogenides are promising hosts of electronic Weyl nodes and topological superconductivity. MoTe$_2$ is a striking example that harbors both noncentrosymmetric T$_d$ and centrosymmetric T' phases, both of which…

In this Letter, we report the observation of disorder-driven anisotropic Kondo screening and spontaneous Hall effect in bulk WTe${_2}$, a nonmagnetic type-II Weyl semimetal. We show that Kondo scattering emerges more prominently in…

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In this letter, we report the presence of novel type of plasmon Weyl points in a naturally existing material - magnetized plasma. In such a medium, conventional, purely longitudinal bulk plasma oscillations exists only along the direction…

Weyl semimetals are a new member of the topological materials family, featuring a pair of singly degenerate Weyl cones with linear dispersion around the nodes in the bulk, and Fermi arcs on the surface. Depending on whether the system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-29 Hao Zheng , M. Zahid Hasan

Weyl semimetal is a new quantum state of matter [1-12] hosting the condensed matter physics counterpart of relativisticWeyl fermion [13] originally introduced in high energy physics. The Weyl semimetal realized in the TaAs class features…

The intrinsic nonlinear planar Hall effect proposed in recent studies offers a new way to probe intrinsic band geometric properties in a large class of materials. However, the search of material platforms with a large response remains a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Fan Yang , Xu-Tao Zeng , Huiying Liu , Cong Xiao , Xian-Lei Sheng , Shengyuan A. Yang

The heavy fermion compound CeRu$_4$Sn$_6$ was recently shown to exhibit a spontaneous nonlinear Hall effect, indicating its topological nature. This is consistent with the lack of inversion symmetry that allows for the existence of Weyl…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-27 Jorūnas Dobilas , Martin Brass , Frank T. Ebel , Silke Paschen , Karsten Held