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As a special type of collinear antiferromagnetism (AFM), altermagnetism has garnered significant research interest recently. Altermagnets exhibit broken parity-time symmetry and zero net magnetization in real space, leading to substantial…

Based on irreducible representations (or symmetry eigenvalues) and compatibility relations, a material can be predicted to be a topological/trivial insulator [satisfying compatibility relations] or a topological semimetal [violating…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-23 Jiacheng Gao , Yuting Qian , Simin Nie , Zhong Fang , Hongming Weng , Zhijun Wang

Heavy fermion semimetals represent a promising setting to explore topological metals driven by strong correlations. In this paper, we i) summarize the theoretical results in a Weyl-Kondo semimetal phase for a strongly correlated model with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-22 Sarah E. Grefe , Hsin-Hua Lai , Silke Paschen , Qimiao Si

There is considerable current interest to explore electronic topology in strongly correlated metals, with heavy fermion systems providing a promising setting. Recently, a Weyl-Kondo semimetal phase has been concurrently discovered in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-01 Sarah E. Grefe , Hsin-Hua Lai , Silke Paschen , Qimiao Si

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 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

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

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

A Weyl semimetal (WSM) features Weyl fermions in its bulk and topological surface states on surfaces, and is novel material hosting Weyl fermions, a kind of fundamental particles. The WSM was regarded as a three-dimensional version of…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-26 Shumeng Chi , Zhilin Li , Haohai Yu , Gang Wang , Shuxian Wang , Huaijin Zhang , Jiyang Wang

We propose a one-parameter family of noninteracting lattice models for Weyl semimetals with 4 Weyl nodes and tunable Fermi arcs. These 2-band model Hamiltonians are time-reversal symmetric with $\mathrm{T}^2 = + 1$, and tuning the parameter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Vatsal Dwivedi , Srinidhi T Ramamurthy

Insulating states can be topologically nontrivial, a well-established notion that is exemplified by the quantum Hall effect and topological insulators. By contrast, topological metals have not been experimentally evidenced until recently.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-09 Hsin-Hua Lai , Sarah E. Grefe , Silke Paschen , Qimiao Si

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 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

We introduce a general mechanism for obtaining Weyl points in a stack of 2D quasicrystals, which can be extended to any stack of aperiodic layers. We do so by driving a topological phase transition with the vertical crystal-momentum as the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-21 André Grossi e Fonseca , Thomas Christensen , John D. Joannopoulos , Marin Soljačić

Weyl degeneracies in spectra of magnetoplasma waves enable nonreciprocal energy flow and topologically protected modes, yet conventional materials require impractical magnetic fields to operate. Developing an effective Hamiltonian framework…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Yuanzhao Wang , Oleg V. Kotov , Dmitry K. Efimkin

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.…

Topological semimetals are a class of novel three-dimensional (3D) electronic phases that feature topologically protected conical band-touchings at the Fermi level. These band-touching points are monopoles of Berry curvature in momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-23 J. P. Santos Pires

Nodal semimetals, materials systems with nodal-point or -line Fermi surfaces, are much sought after for their novel transport and topological properties. Identification of experimental materials candidates, however, has mainly relied on…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-06 Ru Chen , Hoi Chun Po , Jeffrey B. Neaton , Ashvin Vishwanath

Symmetry-protected topological semimetals are at the focus of solid-state research due to their unconventional properties, for example, regarding transport. By investigating local two-band Bloch Hamiltonians in the spin-1/2 basis for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Andy Knoll , Carsten Timm

The Weyl semimetals [1-6] are three-dimensional (3D) gapless topological phases with Weyl cones in the bulk band, and host massless quasiparticles known as Weyl fermions which were theorized by Hermann Weyl in the last twenties [7]. The…