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A Weyl semimetal possesses spin-polarized band-crossings, called Weyl nodes, connected by topological surface arcs. The low-energy excitations near the crossing points behave the same as massless Weyl fermions, leading to exotic properties…

We investigate the surface electronic structures of polar 1T'-MoTe2, the Weyl semimetal candidate realized through the nonpolar-polar structural phase transition, by utilizing the laser angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES)…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-08 M. Sakano , M. S. Bahramy , H. Tsuji , I. Araya , K. Ikeura , H. Sakai , S. Ishiwata , K. Yaji , K. Kuroda , A. Harasawa , S. Shin , K. Ishizaka

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

Magnetotransport and magneto-optics experiments offer a very powerful probe for studying the physical properties of materials. Here, we investigate the second-order nonlinear magnetoconductivity of tilted type-I Weyl and multi-Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Sunit Das , Kamal Das , Amit Agarwal

Negative magnetoresistance is one of the manifestations of the chiral anomaly in Weyl semimetals. The magneto-optical conductivity also shows transitions between Landau levels that are not spaced as in an ordinary electron gas. How are such…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-05 S. Acheche , R. Nourafkan , J. Padayasi , N. Martin , A. -M. S. Tremblay

Realization of noncentrosymmetric magnetic Weyl metals is expected to exhibit anomalous transport properties stemming from the interplay of unusual bulk electronic topology and magnetism. Here, we present spin-valve-like magnetoresistance…

Weyl fermions are powerful yet simple entities that connect geometry, topology, and physics. While their existence as fundamental particles is still uncertain, growing evidence shows they emerge as quasiparticles in special materials called…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Azaz Ahmad

We study the hydrodynamic transport of electrons in a Weyl semimetal in a strong magnetic field. Impurity scattering in a Weyl semimetal with two Weyl nodes is strongly anisotropic as a function of the direction of the field and is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Siyu Zhu , Grigory Bednik , Sergey Syzranov

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…

Magnetic Weyl semimetals, which couple magnetic order with topological features, have emerged as promising candidates for advanced topological-materials-based applications. The switching of magnetization and the driving of domain wall…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-30 Qing-Qi Zeng , Xi-Tong Xu , En-Ke Liu , Zhe Qu

The last decade has witnessed great advancements in the science and engineering of systems with unconventional band structures, seeded by studies of graphene and topological insulators. While the band structure of graphene simulates…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-12-09 Pavan Hosur , Xiaoliang Qi

Weyl semimetals, featuring massless linearly dispersing chiral fermions in three dimensions, provide an excellent platform for studying the interplay of electronic interactions and topology, and exploring new correlated states of matter.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-03 Sarbajaya Kundu , David Sénéchal

The recent discoveries of ferroelectric metal and Weyl semimetal (WSM) have stimulated a natural question: whether these two exotic states of matter can coexist in a single material or not. These two discoveries ensure us that physically it…

Characterized by the absence of inversion symmetry, non-centrosymmetric materials are of great interest because they exhibit ferroelectricity, second harmonic generation, emergent Weyl fermions, and other fascinating phenomena. It is…

We study the transport properties and superconducting proximity effect in NSN junctions formed by a time-reversal symmetry broken Weyl semimetal (WSM) in proximity to an $s$-wave superconductor. We find that the differential conductance and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-07-02 Daniel Breunig , Song-Bo Zhang , Martin Stehno , Björn Trauzettel

Topological Dirac and Weyl semimetals have an energy spectrum that hosts Weyl nodes appearing in pairs of opposite chirality. Topological stability is ensured when the nodes are separated in momentum space and unique spectral and transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-13 Adolfo G. Grushin , Jorn W. F. Venderbos , Ashvin Vishwanath , Roni Ilan

The progress in exploiting new electronic materials and devices has been a major driving force in solid-state physics. As a new state of matter, a Weyl semimetal (WSM), particularly a type-II WSM, hosts Weyl fermions as emergent…

An outstanding feature of topological quantum materials is their novel spin topology in the electronic band structures with an expected large charge-to-spin conversion efficiency. Here, we report a charge current-induced spin polarization…

The pyrite compound CoS2 has been intensively studied in the past due to its itinerant ferromagnetism and potential for half-metallicity, which make it a promising material for spintronic applications. However, its electronic structure…

We consider magnetic Weyl metals as a platform to achieve current control of magnetization textures with transport currents, utilizing their underlying band geometry. We show that the transport current in a Weyl semimetal produces an axial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 J. G. Yang , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , D. A. Pesin