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Topological semimetals is a new class of condensed matter systems with nontrivial electronic structure topology. Their unusual observable properties may often be understood in terms of quantum anomalies. In particular, Weyl and Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-06 A. A. Burkov

The low-energy quasiparticles of Weyl semimetals are a condensed-matter realization of the Weyl fermions introduced in relativistic field theory. Chiral anomaly, the nonconservation of the chiral charge under parallel electric and magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-29 Pilkwang Kim , Ji Hoon Ryoo , Cheol-Hwan Park

We report on exotic response properties in 3D time-reversal invariant Weyl semimetals with mirror symmetry. Despite having a vanishing anomalous Hall coefficient, we find that the momentum-space quadrupole moment formed by four Weyl nodes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-19 Oleg Dubinkin , F. J. Burnell , Taylor L. Hughes

We predict a novel metallic state of matter that emerges in a Weyl-semimetal superstructure with spatially varying Weyl-node positions. In the new state, the Weyl nodes are stretched into extended, anisotropic Fermi surfaces, which can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-15 Maxim Breitkreiz , Piet W. Brouwer

Condensed matter systems realizing Weyl fermions exhibit striking phenomenology derived from their topologically protected surface states as well as chiral anomalies induced by electromagnetic fields. More recently, inhomogeneous strain or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-20 Jan Behrends , Sthitadhi Roy , Michael H. Kolodrubetz , Jens H. Bardarson , Adolfo G. Grushin

Recent discovery of both gapped and gapless topological phases in weakly correlated electron systems has introduced various relativistic particles and a number of exotic phenomena in condensed matter physics. The Weyl fermion is a prominent…

The existence and topological classification of lower-dimensional Fermi surfaces is often tied to the crystal symmetries of the underlying lattice systems. Artificially engineered lattices, such as heterostructures and other superlattices,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-08 Jan Behrends , Jun-Won Rhim , Shang Liu , Adolfo G. Grushin , Jens H. Bardarson

Depending on the geometry of their Fermi surfaces, Weyl semimetals and their analogues in classical systems have been classified into two types. In type I Weyl semimetals (WSMs), the cone-like spectrum at the Weyl point (WP) is not tilted,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 Farzad Zangeneh-Nejad , Romain Fleury

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

The quasiparticle spectra of interacting Weyl and nodal-line semimetals on a cubic lattice are studied using the cluster perturbation theory. By tracking the spectral functions under interaction, we find that the Weyl points will move to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-19 Jing Kang , Jianfei Zou , Kai Li , Shun-Li Yu , Lu-Bing Shao

It was recently shown that nonsymmorphic space group symmetries can protect novel surface states with hourglass-like dispersions. In this paper, we show that such dispersions can also appear in the bulk of three-dimensional (3D) systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-10 Luyang Wang , Shao-Kai Jian , Hong Yao

We show that compounds in a family that possess time-reversal symmetry and share a non-centrosymmetric cubic structure with the space group F-43m (No. 216) host robust ideal Weyl semi-metal fermions with desirable topologically protected…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-13 R. Wang , J. Z. Zhao , Y. J. Jin , W. P. Xu , L. -Y. Gan , X. Z. Wu , H. Xu , S. Y. Tong

Three-dimensional (3D) topological Weyl semimetals (TWSs) represent a novel state of quantum matter with unusual electronic structures that resemble both a "3D graphene" and a topological insulator by possessing pairs of Weyl points…

We study the effect of long-ranged interactions on Weyl semimetals. Such interactions can give rise to unpaired Weyl nodes, which we demonstrate by explicitly constructing a system with just a single node - a situation that is fundamentally…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-06 Tobias Meng , Jan Carl Budich

Weyl fermions, first proposed for describing massless chiral Dirac fermions in particle physics, have not been observed yet in experiments. Recently, much effort has been devoted to explore Weyl fermions around band touching points of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-07-08 Yong Xu , Rui-Lin Chu , Chuanwei Zhang

We provide a manifestly topological classification scheme for generalised Weyl semimetals, in any spatial dimension and with arbitrary Weyl surfaces which may be non-trivially linked. The classification naturally incorporates that of Chern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-22 Varghese Mathai , Guo Chuan Thiang

We define and study a three dimensional lattice model which displays a Weyl semi-metallic phase. This model consists of coupled layers of quantum (anomalous) Hall insulators. The Weyl semi-metallic phase appears between a resulting quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-26 Pierre Delplace , Jian Li , David Carpentier

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

Chiral anomaly is a key feature of Lorentz-invariant quantum field theories: in presence of parallel external electric and magnetic fields, the number of massless Weyl fermions of a given chirality is not conserved. In condensed matter,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-20 Shantonu Mukherjee , Sayantan Sharma , Hridis K. Pal

We investigate the low-energy scaling behavior of an interacting 3D Weyl semimetal in the presence of disorder. In order to achieve a renormalization group analysis of the theory, we focus on the effects of a short-ranged-correlated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-16 J. Gonzalez