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By using first-principles calculations, we propose that WC-type ZrTe is a new type of topological semimetal (TSM). It has six pairs of chiral Weyl nodes in its first Brillouin zone, but it is distinguished from other existing TSMs by having…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 Hongming Weng , Chen Fang , Zhong Fang , Xi Dai

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

In the recently discovered Weyl semimetals, the Fermi surface may feature disjoint, open segments -- the so-called Fermi arcs -- associated with topological states bound to exposed crystal surfaces. Here we show that the collective dynamics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Justin C. W. Song , Mark S. Rudner

Fermi arc states are features of Weyl semimetal (WSM) surfaces which are robust due to the topological character of the bulk band structure. We demonstrate that Fermi arcs may undergo profound restructurings when surfaces of different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-01 Ganpathy Murthy , Herbert A Fertig , Efrat Shimshoni

Condensed-matter provides attractive platforms to realize exotic particles, originally proposed in high-energy physics. Weyl semimetal (WSM) is a material in which low-energy collective excitations are governed by massless Weyl fermions,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-20 Amar Bharti

Topological Quantum Chemistry and Symmetry-Based Indicators have facilitated large-scale searches for materials with topological properties at the Fermi energy ($E_{F}$). We report the completion of a publicly accessible catalog of stable…

PrAlSi, a non-centrosymmetric ferromagnetic Weyl semimetal candidate with a Curie temperature of 17.8K, offers a unique platform for exploring the interplay of symmetry breaking and topological electronic structures. Up to now, the Weyl…

Topological semimetals have recently attracted great attention due to prospective applications governed by their peculiar Fermi surfaces. Weyl semimetals host chiral fermions that manifest as pairs of non-degenerate massless Weyl points in…

Topological Weyl semimetals (WSMs) have been predicted to be excellent candidates for detecting Berry curvature dipole (BCD) and the related non-linear effects in electronics and optics due to the large Berry curvature concentrated around…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 Chuanchang Zeng , Snehasish Nandy , Sumanta Tewari

We study the second-order nonlinear optical response of a Weyl semimetal (WSM), i.e. a three-dimensional metal with linear band touchings acting as point-like sources of Berry curvature in momentum space, termed "Weyl-Berry monopoles". We…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-29 Habib Rostami , Marco Polini

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

Topological semimetals, such as the Weyl and Dirac semimetals, represent one of the most active research fields in modern condensed matter physics. The peculiar physical properties of these systems mainly originate from their underlying…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-09 Yu-Ping Lin , Giandomenico Palumbo

A developing frontier in condensed matter physics is the emergence of novel electromagnetic responses, such as topological and anomalous Hall effect (AHE), in ferromagnetic Weyl semimetals (FM-WSMs). Candidates of FM-WSM are limited to…

Weyl semimetals are crystalline solids that host emergent relativistic Weyl fermions and have characteristic surface Fermi-arcs in their electronic structure. Weyl semimetals with broken time reversal symmetry are difficult to identify…

Weyl electrons are intensely studied due to novel charge transport phenomena such as chiral anomaly, Fermi arcs, and photogalvanic effect. Recent theoretical works suggest that Weyl electrons can also participate in magnetic interactions,…

Weyl semimetals are expected to open up new horizons in physics and materials science because they provide the first realization of Weyl fermions and exhibit protected Fermi arc surface states. However, they had been found to be extremely…

One of the hallmarks of Weyl semi-metals is the existence of unusual topological surface states known as 'Fermi arcs' [1-3]. The formation of these states is guaranteed by the existence of bulk Weyl points with opposite chirality. Tantalum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-23 Rajib Batabyal , Noam Morali , Nurit Avraham , Yan Sun , Marcus Schmidt , Claudia Felser , Ady Stern , Binghai Yan , Haim Beidenkopf

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

In the search for stable topological semimetals with clean band profiles, we have screened all the 3$d$ metal-intercalated transition-metal dichalcogenides (3dI-TMDCs) by performing hybrid-functional-based ab initio calculations. Two…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-08 Takeshi Inoshita , Motoaki Hirayama , Noriaki Hamada , Hideo Hosono , Shuichi Murakami

The realization of Dirac and Weyl physics in solids has made topological materials one of the main focuses of condensed matter physics. Recently, the topic of topological nodal line semimetals, materials in which Dirac or Weyl-like…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-13 Shuo-Ying Yang , Hao Yang , Elena Derunova , Stuart S. P. Parkin , Binghai Yan , Mazhar N. Ali
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