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We explore the stability of three-dimensional Weyl and Dirac semimetals subject to quasiperiodic potentials. We present numerical evidence that the semimetal is stable for weak quasiperiodic potentials, despite being unstable for weak…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-06-23 J. H. Pixley , Justin H. Wilson , David A. Huse , Sarang Gopalakrishnan

We study the stability of three-dimensional incompressible Weyl semimetals in the presence of random quenched charge impurities. Combining numerical analysis and scaling theory we show that in the presence of sufficiently weak randomness…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-06-01 Soumya Bera , Jay D. Sau , Bitan Roy

Weyl semimetals are gapless quasi-topological materials with a set of isolated nodal points forming their Fermi surface. They manifest their quasi-topological character in a series of topological electromagnetic responses including the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-05 Hassan Shapourian , Taylor L. Hughes

A Weyl semimetal denotes an electronic phase of solids in which two bands cross linearly. In this paper we study the effect of a spatially correlated disorder on such a phase. Using a renormalization group analysis, we show that in three…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-06 Thibaud Louvet , David Carpentier , Andrei A. Fedorenko

Weyl and Dirac semimetals are three dimensional phases of matter with gapless electronic excitations that are protected by topology and symmetry. As three dimensional analogs of graphene, they have generated much recent interest. Deep…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-31 N. P. Armitage , E. J. Mele , Ashvin Vishwanath

Weyl semimetal is a new phase of matter that provides the first solid state realization of chiral Weyl fermions. Most of its unique physics is a consequence of chiral anomaly, namely nonconservation of the number of particles of a given…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-11 Y. Chen , Si Wu , A. A. Burkov

Weyl semimetals are a new class of Dirac material that posses bulk energy nodes in three dimensions. In this paper, we study a Weyl semimetal subject to an applied magnetic field. We derive expressions for the density of states, electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-04-30 Phillip E. C. Ashby , J. P. Carbotte

Weyl semimetals have been intensely studied as a three dimensional realization of a Dirac-like excitation spectrum where the conduction bands and valence bands touch at isolated Weyl points in momentum space. Like in graphene, this property…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-22 Tobias Holder , Chia-Wei Huang , Pavel Ostrovsky

Typical Weyl semimetals host chiral surface states and hence show an anomalous Hall response. Although a Weyl semimetal phase is known to be robust against weak disorder, the influence of disorder on chiral states is not fully clarified so…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Yositake Takane

Weyl semimetals are a newly discovered class of materials that host relativistic massless Weyl fermions as their low-energy bulk excitations. Among this new class of materials, there exist two general types of semimetals that are of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Moon Jip Park , Bora Basa , Matthew J. Gilbert

We investigate the nature of the magnetic phase transition induced by the short-ranged electron-electron interactions in a Weyl semimetal by using the perturbative renormalization-group method. We find that the critical point associated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-19 Yu-Li Lee , Yu-Wen Lee

Motivated by the proposal of a Weyl-semimetal phase in pyrochlore iridates, we consider a Hubbard-type model on the pyrochlore lattice. To shed light on the question as to why such a state has not been observed experimentally, its…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-23 Christoph Berke , Paolo Michetti , Carsten Timm

Weyl semimetals are paradigmatic topological gapless phases in three dimensions. We here address the effect of disorder on charge transport in Weyl semimetals. For a single Weyl node with energy at the degeneracy point and without…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-14 Björn Sbierski , Gregor Pohl , Emil J. Bergholtz , Piet W. Brouwer

We study Weyl semimetals in the presence of generic disorder, consisting of a random vector potential as well as a random scalar potential. We derive renormalization group flow equations to second order in the disorder strength. These flow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-14 Björn Sbierski , Kevin S. C. Decker , Piet W. Brouwer

Weyl semimetal is a solid material with isolated touching points between conduction and valence bands in its Brillouin zone -- Weyl points. Low energy excitations near these points exhibit a linear dispersion and act as relativistic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-01-24 M. E. Ismagambetov , P. M. Ostrovsky

Dirac semimetal is a phase of matter, whose elementary excitation is described by the relativistic Dirac equation. In the limit of zero mass, its parity-time symmetry enforces the Dirac fermion in the momentum space, which is composed of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-04 Pengfei Liu , Ao Zhang , Jingzhi Han , Qihang Liu

A Weyl semimetal (WSM) is a topological material that hosts Weyl fermions as quasiparticles in the bulk. We study the combined effect of intra- and interorbital disorders on WSMs by adopting a tight-binding model that supports the WSM,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-08 Rui Chen , Chui-Zhen Chen , Jin-Hua Sun , Bin Zhou , Dong-Hui Xu

We extend the study of fermionic particle-hole symmetric semi-Dirac (alternatively, semi-Weyo) dispersion of quasiparticles, $\varepsilon_K = \pm \sqrt{(k_x^2/2m)^2 + (vk_y)^2)} = \pm \varepsilon_0 \sqrt{K_x^4 + K_y^2}$ in dimensionless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Swapnonil Banerjee , Warren E. Pickett

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…

In this work we address the physics of individual three dimensional Weyl nodes subject to a moderate concentration of disorder. Previous analysis indicates the presence of a quantum phase transition below which disorder becomes irrelevant…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-11-29 Michael Buchhold , Sebastian Diehl , Alexander Altland
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