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Weyl points are the degenerate points in three-dimensional momentum space with nontrivial topological phase, which are usually realized in classical system with structure and symmetry designs. Here we proposed a one-dimensional…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-01 Ying Chen , Hai-xiao Wang , Qiaoliang Bao , Jian-Hua Jiang , Huanyang Chen

Weyl points (WPs), as nodal degenerate points in three-dimensional (3D) momentum space, are ideal if they are symmetry-related, well-separated, residing at the same energy and far from the nontopological bands. Although type-II WPs show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-04 Rujiang Li , Bo Lv , Huibin Tao , Jinhui Shi , Yidong Chong , Baile Zhang , Hongsheng Chen

Weyl fermions have not been found in nature as elementary particles, but they emerge as nodal points in the band structure of electronic and classical wave crystals. Novel phenomena such as Fermi arcs and chiral anomaly have fueled the…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-22 Qiang Wang , Meng Xiao , Hui Liu , Shining Zhu , C. T. Chan

Weyl points, serving as monopoles in the momentum space and laying the foundation of topological gapless phases, have recently been experimentally demonstrated in various physical systems. However, none of the observed Weyl degeneracies are…

Weyl semimetals exhibitinging the topologically nontrivial touching points in electronic band dispersion of solids pave the wave way to novel electronic devices and functionalities. Here, we demonstrate the signature of topologically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-28 Jian Liu , Wenjie Hou , En Wang , Shengjie Zhang , Jia-Tao Sun , Sheng Meng

Given the importance of crystal symmetry for the emergence of topological quantum states, we have studied, as exemplified in NbNiTe2, the interplay of crystal symmetry, atomic displacements (lattice vibration), band degeneracy, and band…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-27 Lin-Lin Wang , Na Hyun Jo , Yun Wu , QuanSheng Wu , Adam Kaminski , Paul C. Canfield , Duane D. Johnson

We discover three-dimensional intertwined Weyl phases, by developing a theory to create topological phases. The theory is based on intertwining existing topological gapped and gapless phases protected by the same crystalline symmetry. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 W. B. Rui , Zhen Zheng , Moritz M. Hirschmann , Song-Bo Zhang , Chenjie Wang , Z. D. Wang

Weyl points emerge as topological monopoles of Berry flux in the three-dimensional (3D) momentum space and have been extensively studied in topological semimetals. As the underlying topological principles apply to any type of waves under…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 Hao Ge , Xu Ni , Yuan Tian , Samit Kumar Gupta , Ming-Hui Lu , Xin Lin , Wei-Dong Huang , C. T. Chan , Yan-Feng Chen

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 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

Weyl points and line nodes are three-dimensional linear point- and line-degeneracies between two bands. In contrast to Dirac points, which are their two-dimensional analogues, Weyl points are stable in the momentum space and the associated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-29 Ling Lu , Liang Fu , John D. Joannopoulos , Marin Soljačić

Weyl fermions1 do not appear in nature as elementary particles, but they are now found to exist as nodal points in the band structure of electronic and classical wave crystals. Novel phenomena such as Fermi arcs and chiral anomaly have…

Optics · Physics 2016-10-17 Qiang Wang , Meng Xiao , Hui Liu , Xiangang Wan , Shining Zhu , C. T. Chan

Weyl semimetals are a new member of the topological materials family, featuring a pair of singly degenerate Weyl cones with linear dispersion around the nodes in the bulk, and Fermi arcs on the surface. Depending on whether the system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-29 Hao Zheng , M. Zahid Hasan

Three-dimensional Weyl fermions are found to emerge from simple cubic lattices with staggered fluxes. The mechanism is to gap the quadratic band touching by time-reversal-symmetry-breaking hoppings. The system exhibits rich phase diagrams…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-04-03 Jian-Hua Jiang

Weyl semimetals are extraordinary systems where exotic phenomena such as Fermi arcs, pseudo-gauge fields and quantum anomalies arise from topological band degeneracy in crystalline solids for electrons and metamaterials for photons and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Li Luo , Hai-Xiao Wang , Bin Jiang , Ying Wu , Zhi-Kang Lin , Feng Li , Jian-Hua Jiang

Novel "quasi two dimensional" typically layered (semi) metals offer a unique opportunity to control the density and even the topology of the electronic matter. Along with doping and gate voltage, a robust tuning is achieved by application…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-28 Baruch Rosenstein , B. Ya. Shapiro

Higher-order Weyl semimetals are a family of recently predicted topological phases simultaneously showcasing unconventional properties derived from Weyl points, such as chiral anomaly, and multidimensional topological phenomena originating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-06 Yuang Pan , Chaoxi Cui , Qiaolu Chen , Fujia Chen , Li Zhang , Yudong Ren , Ning Han , Wenhao Li , Xinrui Li , Zhi-Ming Yu , Hongsheng Chen , Yihao Yang

The recent discovery of the Lorentz symmetry-violating 'Type II' Weyl semimetal phase has renewed interest in the study of Weyl physics in condensed matter systems. However, tuning the exceptional properties of this novel state has remained…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-01-25 Kunal Shastri , Zhaoju Yang , Baile Zhang

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 discovery of Weyl semimetals represents a significant advance in topological band theory. They paradigmatically enlarged the classification of topological materials to gapless systems while simultaneously providing experimental evidence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 P. Rüßmann , A. P. Weber , F. Glott , N. Xu , M. Fanciulli , S. Muff , A. Magrez , P. Bugnon , H. Berger , M. Bode , J. H. Dil , S. Blügel , P. Mavropoulos , P. Sessi
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