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Since the breakthrough of twistronics a plethora of topological phenomena in two dimensions has appeared, specially relating topology and electronic correlations. These systems can be typically analyzed in terms of lattice models of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 M. Alvarado , A. Levy Yeyati

Smooth interfaces of topological systems are known to host massive surface states along with the topologically protected chiral one. We show that in Weyl semimetals these massive states, along with the chiral Fermi arc, strongly alter the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Xin Lu , Dibya Kanti Mukherjee , Mark O. Goerbig

The semiconducting two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides MX$_{2}$ show an abundance of one-dimensional metallic edges and grain boundaries. Standard techniques for calculating edge states typically model nanoribbons, and require…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-10 Mojtaba Farmanbar , Taher Amlaki , Geert Brocks

We analyze the structure of the surface states and Fermi arcs of Weyl semimetals as a function of the boundary conditions parameterizing the Hamiltonian self-adjoint extensions of a minimal model with two Weyl points. These boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Michele Burrello , Enore Guadagnini , Luca Lepori , Mihail Mintchev

The topological invariant responsible for the stability of Fermi point/Fermi surface in homogeneous systems is expressed through the one particle Green function, which depends on momentum. It is given by an integral over the 3D hypersurface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 M. A. Zubkov

A Green's function formalism is used to calculate the spectrum of localized modes of an impurity layer implanted within a ferromagnetic thin film. The equations of motion for the Green's functions are determined in the framework of the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 R. V. Leite , B. T. F. Morais , J. Milton Pereira , R. N. Costa Filho

Topological semimetals are gapless states of matter which have robust and unique electromagnetic responses and surface states. In this paper, we consider semimetals which have point like Fermi surfaces in various spatial dimensions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 Srinidhi T. Ramamurthy , Taylor L. Hughes

It is necessary to study the properties of Weyl semimetal nanostructures for potential applications in nanoelectronics. Here we study the Weyl semimetal quantum dot with a most simple model Hamiltonian with only two Weyl points. We focus on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-13 Zhang Shu-feng , Zhang Chang-wen , Wang Pei-ji , Sun Qing-feng

Weyl semimetals display a novel topological phase of matter where the Weyl nodes emerge in pairs of opposite chirality and can be seen as either a source or a sink of Berry curvature. The exotic effects in Weyl semimetals, such as surface…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-02 Davide Iaia , Guoqing Chang , Tay-Rong Chang , Jin Hu , Zhiqiang Mao , Hsin Lin , Shichao Yan , Vidya Madhavan

We use the effective-mass approximation and the density-functional theory with the local-density approximation for modeling two-dimensional nano-structures connected phase-coherently to two infinite leads. Using the non-equilibrium Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Paula Havu , Ville Havu , Martti Puska , Risto Nieminen

In this paper we study analytically a one-dimensional model for a semiconductor-metal junction. We study the formation of Tamm states and how they evolve when the semi-infinite semiconductor and metal are coupled together. The non-linear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-12 N. M. R. Peres

We study the properties of the surface states in three-dimensional topological insulators in the presence of a ferromagnetic exchange field. We demonstrate that for layered materials like Bi$_2$Se$_3$ the surface states on the top surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-21 Tomi Paananen , Henning Gerber , Matthias Götte , Thomas Dahm

We study the behavior of fermion spectral functions for the holographic topological Weyl and nodal line semimetals. We calculate the topological invariants from the Green functions of both holographic semimetals using the topological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-19 Yan Liu , Ya-Wen Sun

We present a model in which a Hatsugai-Kohmoto interaction is added to a system of fermions with a Weyl point in their non-interacting dispersion relation, and analyze its behavior as a function of the chemical potential. We show that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-25 R. Flores-Calderón , C. Hooley

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

Weyl semimetals constitute a newly discovered class of three-dimensional topological materials with linear touchings of valence and conduction bands in the bulk. The most striking property of topological origin in these materials, so far…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 Stefanos Kourtis , Jian Li , Zhijun Wang , Ali Yazdani , B. Andrei Bernevig

Weyl semimetals are topological materials with protected Weyl nodes in the band structure. In these materials the surface states form open curves at the Fermi surface, Fermi arcs in Weyl semimetals and drumhead states of nodal-line…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Enrique Benito-Matías , Rafael A. Molina

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

Recent experiments on non-magnetic Weyl semimetals have seen separate bulk and surface superconductivity in Weyl semimetals, which raises the question of whether the surface Fermi arcs can support intrinsic superconductivity while the bulk…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-21 Aymen Nomani , Pavan Hosur

We study the dynamics of a non-magnetic impurity interacting with the surface states of a 3D and 2D topological insulator. Employing the linked cluster technique we develop a formalism for obtaining the Greens function of the mobile…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-26 Ajit Kumar Sorout , Surajit Sarkar , Suhas Gangadharaiah