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We study the tunneling density of states (DOS) in an interacting disordered three-dimensional metal and calculate its energy dependence in the quasiballistic regime, for the deviation from the Fermi energy, $E-E_F$, exceeding the elastic…

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We investigate multilayer systems of a normal insulator and a Weyl semimetal. We calculate the bulk band structure and determine phase diagrams by changing the thickness of the normal insulator and that of the Weyl semimetal layer using two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 Kazuki Yokomizo , Shuichi Murakami

Topological semimetals, such as the Weyl and Dirac semimetals, represent one of the most active research fields in modern condensed matter physics. The peculiar physical properties of these systems mainly originate from their underlying…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-09 Yu-Ping Lin , Giandomenico Palumbo

We develop a topological theory for disordered Weyl semimetals in the framework of gauge invariance of replica formalism and boundary-bulk correspondence of Chern insulators. An anisotropic topological $\theta$-term is analytically derived…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-21 Y. X. Zhao , Z. D. Wang

We study the effects of disorder on semi-infinite Weyl and Dirac semimetals where the presence of a boundary leads to the formation of either Fermi arcs/rays or Dirac surface states. Using a local version of the self-consistent Born…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Eric Brillaux , Andrei A. Fedorenko

We generalize the concept of three-dimensional topological Weyl semimetal to a class of five dimensional (5D) gapless solids, where Weyl points are generalized to Weyl surfaces which are two-dimensional closed manifolds in the momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-06 Biao Lian , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We study dynamical instability and chiral symmetry breaking in three dimensional Weyl semimetals, which turns Weyl semimetals into "axion insulators". Charge density waves (CDW) is found to be the natural consequence of the chiral symmetry…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-16 Zhong Wang , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We classify all possible gap-closing procedures which can be achieved in two-dimensional time-reversal invariant noncentrosymmetric systems. For exhaustive classification, we examine the space group symmetries of all 49 layer groups lacking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-20 Sungjoon Park , Bohm-Jung Yang

We investigate the tunneling conductance of Weyl semimetal with tilted energy dispersion by considering electron transmission through a p-n-p junction with one-dimensional electric and magnetic barrier. In the presence of both electric and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-21 Can Yesilyurt , Seng Ghee Tan , Gengchiau Liang , Mansoor B. A. Jalil

We theoretically study the stability of three dimensional Dirac semimetals against short-range electron-electron interaction and quenched time-reversal symmetric disorder (but excluding mass disorder). First we focus on the clean…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-23 Bitan Roy , Sankar Das Sarma

Role of localized magnetic moments in metal-insulator transitions lies at the heart of modern condensed matter physics, for example, the mechanism of high T$_{c}$ superconductivity, the nature of non-Fermi liquid physics near heavy fermion…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-04-29 Kyoung-Min Kim , Yong-Soo Jho , Ki-Seok Kim

A family of topological semimetallic phases where twofold degenerate gapless points form linked rings is introduced. We refer to this phase as Weyl-link semimetals. A concrete two-band model with two linked nodal lines is constructed. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-30 Po-Yao Chang , Chuck-Hou Yee

Weyl semimetals harbor unusual surface states known as Fermi arcs, which are essentially disjoint segments of a two dimensional Fermi surface. We describe a prescription for obtaining Fermi arcs of arbitrary shape and connectivity by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-11-08 Pavan Hosur

The Brillouin zone of the clean Weyl semimetal contains points at which the density of states (DoS) vanishes. Previous work suggested that below a certain critical concentration of impurities this features is preserved including in the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-11-29 Michael Buchhold , Sebastian Diehl , Alexander Altland

We study Weyl-loop semi-metals with short range interactions, focusing on the possible interaction driven instabilities. We introduce an $\epsilon$ expansion regularization scheme by means of which the possible instabilities may be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-30 Shouvik Sur , Rahul Nandkishore

We consider the effects of momentum relaxation on the topological quantum phase transitions in holographic Weyl semimetals. The translational symmetry breaking in the field theory is realized in the framework of massive gravity. We find…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-20 Junkun Zhao

Double Weyl nodes are topologically protected band crossing points which carry chiral charge $\pm2$. They are stabilized by $C_{4}$ point group symmetry and are predicted to occur in $\mathrm{SrSi_{2}}$ or $\mathrm{HgCr_{2}Se_{4}}$. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-02 Björn Sbierski , Maximilian Trescher , Emil J. Bergholtz , Piet W. Brouwer

We investigate the interplay of many-body and band structure effects of interacting Weyl semimetals (WSM). Attractive and repulsive Hubbard interactions are studied within a model for a time-reversal-breaking WSM with tetragonal symmetry,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-01-06 Manuel Laubach , Christian Platt , Ronny Thomale , Titus Neupert , Stephan Rachel

We study odd viscosity in a holographic model of a Weyl semimetal. The model is characterised by a quantum phase transition from a topological semimetal to a trivial semimetal state. Since the model is axisymmetric in three spatial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Karl Landsteiner , Yan Liu , Ya-Wen Sun

We study superconductivity in a Weyl semimetal with broken time-reversal symmetry and stabilized by a point-group symmetry. The resulting superconducting phase is characterized by topologically protected bulk nodes and surface states with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Vasudha Shivamoggi , Matthew J. Gilbert