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Topological materials have been a main focus of studies in the past decade due to their protected properties that can be exploited for the fabrication of new devices. Among them, Weyl semimetals are a class of topological semimetals with…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-05 Davide Grassano , Luca Binci , Nicola Marzari

We present a study of "nodal semimetal" phases, in which non-degenerate conduction and valence bands touch at points (the "Weyl semimetal") or lines (the "line node semimetal") in three-dimensional momentum space. We discuss a general…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 A. A. Burkov , M. D. Hook , Leon Balents

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 propose an analytical model describing Fermi arc surface states observed in the recent investigations of Weyl semimetals. The effective two-valley Hamiltonian is supplemented by the boundary conditions taking into account both the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-01 Zh. A. Devizorova , V. A. Volkov

Weyl semimetals (WSMs) have unusual optical response originated from unique topological properties of their bulk and surface electron states. Their third-order optical nonlinearity is expected to be very strong, especially at long…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Sultan Almutairi , Qianfan Chen , Mikhail Tokman , Alexey Belyanin

We present a theory of the anomalous Hall effect in a topological Weyl superconductor with broken time reversal symmetry. Specifically, we consider a ferromagnetic Weyl metal with two Weyl nodes of opposite chirality near the Fermi energy.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-24 G. Bednik , A. A. Zyuzin , A. A. Burkov

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

We present a feasible protocol to mimic topological Weyl semimetal phase in a small one-dimensional circuit-QED lattice. By modulating the photon hopping rates and on-site photon frequencies in parametric spaces, we demonstrate that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-20 Feng Mei , Zheng-Yuan Xue , Dan-Wei Zhang , Lin Tian , Chaohong Lee , Shi-Liang Zhu

The intersections of topology, geometry and strong correlations offer many opportunities for exotic quantum phases to emerge in condensed matter systems. Weyl fermions, in particular, provide an ideal platform for exploring the dynamical…

Recent advances in the study of nodal Weyl fermions (WFs), quasi-relativistic massless particles, constitute a novel realm of quantum many-body phenomena. The Coulomb interaction in such systems, having a zero density of states at the Fermi…

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

The Weyl semimetal is characterized by three-dimensional linear band touching points called Weyl nodes. These nodes come in pairs with opposite chiralities. We show that the coupling of circularly polarized photons with these chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-19 Ching-Kit Chan , Patrick A. Lee , Kenneth S. Burch , Jung Hoon Han , Ying Ran

Weyl semimetals have been intensely studied as a three dimensional realization of a Dirac-like excitation spectrum where the conduction bands and valence bands touch at isolated Weyl points in momentum space. Like in graphene, this property…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-22 Tobias Holder , Chia-Wei Huang , Pavel Ostrovsky

We study interaction effects, including both long-ranged Coulomb and short-range interactions, in three-dimensional topological triple-Weyl semimetals whose triple-Weyl points are protected by crystal symmetries. By performing Wilsonian…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-27 Shi-Xin Zhang , Shao-Kai Jian , Hong Yao

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

Condensed matter systems provide a rich setting to realize Dirac and Majorana fermionic excitations and the possibility to manipulate them in materials for potential applications. Recently, it has been proposed that Weyl fermions, which are…

A Weyl semimetal is a new state of matter that host Weyl fermions as quasiparticle excitations. The Weyl fermions at zero energy correspond to points of bulk band degeneracy, Weyl nodes, which are separated in momentum space and are…

Weyl fermions can be created in materials with both time reversal and inversion symmetry by applying a magnetic field, as evidenced by recent measurements of anomalous negative magnetoresistance. Here, we do a thorough analysis of the Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 Jennifer Cano , Barry Bradlyn , Zhijun Wang , Max Hirschberger , N. P. Ong , B. A. Bernevig

Weyl semimetals are gapless three-dimensional (3D) phases whose bandstructures contain Weyl point (WP) degeneracies. WPs carry topological charge and can only be eliminated by mutual annihilation, a process that generates the various…

In this work, we describe a method to realize 3D Weyl semimetal by coupling multilayers of honeycomb optical lattice in the presence of a pair of Raman lasers. The Raman lasers render each isolated honeycomb layer a Chern insulator. With…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-07-15 Wen-Yu He , Shizhong Zhang , K. T. Law