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The interplay between magnetic ordering and band topology has emerged as a fertile ground for discovering novel quantum states with profound implications for fundamental physics and next-generation electronics. Here, we theoretically…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-09 Qingqing Li , Li Chen , Run-Wu Zhang , Botao Fu

For first-order topological semimetals, non-Hermitian perturbations can drive the Weyl nodes into Weyl exceptional rings having multiple topological structures and no Hermitian counterparts. Recently, it was discovered that higher-order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-11 Tao Liu , James Jun He , Zhongmin Yang , Franco Nori

Physicists have discovered a novel topological semimetal, the Weyl semimetal, whose surface features a non-closed Fermi surface while the low energy quasiparticles in the bulk emerge as Weyl fermions. Here they share a brief review of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-08 Shuang Jia , Su-Yang Xu , M. Zahid Hasan

By combining bulk sensitive soft-X-ray angular-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and accurate first-principles calculations we explored the bulk electronic properties of WTe$_2$, a candidate type-II Weyl semimetal featuring a large…

Magnetic topological materials have recently drawn significant importance and interest, due to their topologically nontrivial electronic structure within spontaneous magnetic moments and band inversion. Based on first-principles…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-20 R. Wang , Y. J. Jin , J. Z. Zhao , Z. J. Chen , Y. J. Zhao , H. Xu

We report a combined experimental and theoretical study of the candidate type-II Weyl semimetal MoTe2. Using laser-based angle-resolved photoemission we resolve multiple distinct Fermi arcs on the inequivalent top and bottom (001) surfaces.…

In electronics systems, the Weyl points can be classified into three types based on the geometry of the Fermi surface, and each type exhibits various unique and intriguing phenomena. While the type-I and type-II Weyl points have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Xiao-Ping Li , Feng Li , Di Zhou , Ying Wu , Zhi-Ming Yu , Yugui Yao

3+1-dimensional Weyl fermions in interacting systems are described by effective quasi-relativistic Green's functions parametrized by a 16 element matrix $e^\mu_\alpha$ in an expansion around the Weyl point. The matrix $e^{\mu}_{\alpha}$ can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-07 J. Nissinen , G. E. Volovik

Weyl semimetals host topologically protected surface states, with arced Fermi surface contours that are predicted to propagate through the bulk when their momentum matches that of the surface projections of the bulk's Weyl nodes. We use…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-14 Hiroyuki Inoue , Andras Gyenis , Zhijun Wang , Jian Li , Seong Woo Oh , Shan Jiang , Ni Ni , B. Andrei Bernevig , Ali Yazdani

Weyl semimetals are a newly discovered class of materials that host relativistic massless Weyl fermions as their low-energy bulk excitations. Among this new class of materials, there exist two general types of semimetals that are of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Moon Jip Park , Bora Basa , Matthew J. Gilbert

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

Fermions in nature come in several types: Dirac, Majorana and Weyl are theoretically thought to form a complete list. Even though Majorana and Weyl fermions have for decades remained experimentally elusive, condensed matter has recently…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-01 Alexey A. Soluyanov , Dominik Gresch , Zhijun Wang , QuanSheng Wu , Matthias Troyer , Xi Dai , B. Andrei Bernevig

Fermi arcs on Weyl semimetals exhibit many exotic quantum phenomena. Usually considered on atomically-flat surfaces with approximate translation symmetry, Fermi arcs are rooted in peculiar topology of bulk Bloch bands of three-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-15 Xiaohu Zheng , Qiangqiang Gu , Yiyuan Liu1 , Bingbing Tong , Jian-Feng Zhang , Chi Zhang , Shuang Jia , Ji Feng , Rui-Rui Du1

Distinct to type-I Weyl semimetals (WSMs) that host quasiparticles described by the Weyl equation, the energy dispersion of quasiparticles in type-II WSMs violates Lorentz invariance and the Weyl cones in the momentum space are tilted.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-07 M. -Y. Yao , N. Xu , Q. Wu , G. Autès , N. Kumar , V. N. Strocov , N. C. Plumb , M. Radovic , O. V. Yazyev , C. Felser , J. Mesot , M. Shi

Type II Weyl semimetal, a three dimensional gapless topological phase, has drawn enormous interest recently. These topological semimetals enjoy overtilted dispersion and Weyl nodes that separate the particle and hole pocket. Using…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-02 Weizhu Yi , Qiu-Shi Wang , Rui Wang , Baigeng Wang

The emergence of a charge density wave (CDW) in a Weyl semimetal -- a correlated topological phase, is exceptionally rare in condensed matter systems. In this context, the quasi-one-dimensional type-III Weyl semimetal (TaSe$_4$)$_2$I…

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

In this work we predict a family of noncentrosymmetric two-dimensional (2D) Weyl semimetals composed by porous Ge and SiGe structures. These systems are energetically stable graphenylene-like structures with a buckling, spontaneously…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-06 Emmanuel V. C. Lopes , Rogerio J. Baierle , Roberto H. Miwa , Tome M. Schmidt

Topological semimetals with different types of band crossings provide a rich platform to realize novel fermionic excitations, known as topological fermions. In particular, some fermionic excitations can be direct analogues of elementary…

Weyl semimetals may open a new era in condensed matter physics because they provide the first example of Weyl fermions, realize a new topological classification even though the system is gapless, exhibit Fermi arc surface states and…