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Symmetry protected topology has been studied extensively in the past twenty years, but the topology protected by spin symmetry has just begun to be studied. In this work, based on spin symmetry analysis, we propose that a class of Weyl…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-04 Shuai Qu , Xiao-Yao Hou , Zheng-Xin Liu , Peng-Jie Guo , Zhong-Yi Lu

Spin-momentum locking in Weyl semimetals correlates the orbital motion of electrons with background magnetic textures. We show here that the dynamics of a magnetic texture in a magnetic Weyl semimetal induces a pumped electric current that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 Yasufumi Araki , Kentaro Nomura

We theoretically investigate ferromagnetic ordering in magnetically doped solid-solution narrow-gap semiconductors with the strong spin-orbit interaction such as Cr-doped Bi$_2$(Se$_x$Te$_{1-x}$)$_3$. We compute the spontaneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 Daichi Kurebayashi , Kentaro Nomura

Reliable and energy efficient magnetization switching by electrically-induced spin-orbit torques is of crucial technological relevance for spintronic devices implementing memory and logic functionality. Here we predict that the strength of…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-15 Jan-Philipp Hanke , Frank Freimuth , Chengwang Niu , Stefan Blügel , Yuriy Mokrousov

The magnetotransport properties of disordered ferromagnetic Weyl semimetals are investigated numerically. We found an extraordinarily stable and huge magnetoresistance effect in domain walls of Weyl semimetals. This effect originates from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-25 Koji Kobayashi , Yuya Ominato , Kentaro Nomura

We experimentally investigate electron transport in kagome-lattice ferromagnet Co$_3$Sn$_2$S$_2$, which is regarded as a time-reversal symmetry broken Weyl semimetal candidate. We demonstrate $dV/dI(I)$ curves with pronounced asymmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-14 O. O. Shvetsov , V. D. Esin , A. V. Timonina , N. N. Kolesnikov , E. V. Deviatov

Tunneling transport across the p-n-p junction of Weyl semimetal with tilted energy dispersion is investigated. We report that the electrons around different valleys experience opposite direction refractions at the barrier interface when the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-12 Can Yesilyurt , Zhuo Bin Siu , Seng Ghee Tan , Gengchiau Liang , Shengyuan A. Yang , Mansoor B. A. Jalil

Weyl semimetals host linear energy dispersions around Weyl nodes, as well as monopoles of Berry curvature in momentum space around these points. These features give rise to unique transport signatures in a Weyl semimetal, such as transverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Robert C. McKay , Timothy M. McCormick , Nandini Trivedi

We study Weyl nodes in materials with broken inversion symmetry. We find based on first-principles calculations that trigonal Te and Se have multiple Weyl nodes near the Fermi level. The conduction bands have a spin splitting similar to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-28 Motoaki Hirayama , Ryo Okugawa , Shoji Ishibashi , Shuichi Murakami , Takashi Miyake

Magnetic Weyl semimetals are an emerging material class that combines magnetic order and a topologically non-trivial band structure. Here, we study ultrafast optically driven spin injection from thin films of the magnetic Weyl semimetals…

Quantum materials governed by emergent topological fermions have become a cornerstone of physics. Dirac fermions in graphene form the basis for moir\'e quantum matter, and Dirac fermions in magnetic topological insulators enabled the…

We investigate linear and nonlinear transverse planar transport phenomena (viz. linear and nonlinear Hall and Nernst coefficients) induced by chiral anomaly in three-dimensional spin-orbit coupled metallic systems. Unlike Weyl semimetals,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Rishi G. Gopalakrishnan , Binayyak B. Roy , Gargee Sharma , Sumanta Tewari

Magnetic Weyl semimetals (WSM) have recently attracted much attention due to their potential in realizing strong anomalous Hall effects. Yet, how to design such systems remains unclear. Based on first-principles calculations, we show here…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-21 Xiaosong Bai , Yan Wang , Wenwen Yang , Qiunan Xu , Wenjian Liu

We employ {\it ab-initio} fully-relativistic electronic structure calculations to study the stability of the Weyl points in the momentum space within the class of the half-metallic ferromagnetic full Heusler materials, by focusing on…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-02 S. Chadov , S. -C. Wu , C. Felser , I. Galanakis

We experimentally study lateral electron transport between two 5~$\mu$m spaced superconducting indium leads on a top of magnetic Weyl semimetal Co$_3$Sn$_2$S$_2$. For the disordered magnetic state of Co$_3$Sn$_2$S$_2$ crystal, we only…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-27 O. O. Shvetsov , V. D. Esin , Yu. S. Barash , A. V. Timonina , N. N. Kolesnikov , E. V. Deviatov

A heterostructure consisting of a magnetic Weyl semimetal and a conventional superconductor exhibits an equilibrium current parallel to the superconductor interface and perpendicular to the magnetization. Analyzing a minimal model, which as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Kevin A. Madsen , Piet W. Brouwer , Maxim Breitkreiz

We theoretically study the band structure and the electronic transport in the Weyl semimetal nanowires in magnetic fields, and demonstrate that the interplay of the Fermi-arc surface states and the bulk Landau levels plays a crucial role in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Akira Igarashi , Mikito Koshino

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

We investigate transport in a superconducting nanostructure housing a Weyl point in the spectrum of Andreev bound states. A minimum magnet state is realized in the vicinity of the point. One or more normal-metal leads are tunnel-coupled to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Yuguang Chen , Yuli Nazarov

Nonsymmorphic magnetic Weyl semimetal materials such as ReAlX (Re=rare earth, X=Si/Ge) provide a unique opportunity to explore the correlated phenomena between Weyl fermions and nontrivial magnetic configurations. To be specific, we study a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Xi Luo , Yu-Ge Chen , Ye-Min Zhan , Yue Yu