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The Weyl semimetal (WSM) is a newly proposed quantum state of matter. It has Weyl nodes in bulk excitations and Fermi arcs surface states. We study the effects of disorder and localization in WSMs and find three exotic phase transitions.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Chui-Zhen Chen , Juntao Song , Hua Jiang , Qing-feng Sun , Ziqiang Wang , X. C. Xie

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…

Weyl Semimetals (WSMs), a recently discovered topological state of matter, exhibit an electronic structure governed by linear band dispersions and degeneracy (Weyl) points leading to rich physical phenomena, which are yet to be exploited in…

One of the main features of Weyl semimetals is the existence of Fermi arc surface states at their surface, which cannot be realized in pure two-dimensional systems in the absence of many-body interactions. Due to the gapless bulk of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Guangze Chen , Oded Zilberberg , Wei Chen

We theoretically address the effects of strong magnetic fields in three-dimensional Weyl semimetals (WSMs) built out of Weyl nodes with a monopole charge $n$. For $n=1$, $2$, and $3$ we realize single, double, and triple WSM, respectively,…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-29 Xiao Li , Bitan Roy , S. Das Sarma

The optical nonlinear effects can provide different advanced electromagnetic functionalities, such as wave mixing and phase conjugation, which can be applied in a variety of new applications. However, these effects usually suffer from…

Optics · Physics 2020-06-29 Boyuan Jin , Christos Argyropoulos

Weyl semimetals are materials with topologically nontrivial band structure both in the bulk and on the surface, hosting chiral nodes which are sinks and sources of Berry curvature. Weyl semimetals have been predicted, and recently measured,…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-29 Christina A. C. Garcia , Jennifer Coulter , Prineha Narang

Theories have revealed the universality of the band tilting effect in topological Weyl semimetals (WSMs) and its implications for the material's physical properties. However, the experimental identification of tilted Weyl bands remains much…

The recent discovery of Weyl fermions in solids enables exploitation of relativistic physics and development of a spectrum of intriguing physical phenomena. They are constituted of pairs of Weyl points with two-fold band degeneracy, which…

We investigate the density and optical responses of a linear triple component fermionic system in both non-interacting and interacting regimes by computing its dynamical polarization function, RPA dielectric function, plasmon mode and long…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-20 Bashab Dey , Tarun Kanti Ghosh

Fermi arc surface states, the manifestation of the bulk-edge correspondence in Weyl semimetals, have attracted much research interest. In contrast to the conventional Fermi loop, the disconnected Fermi arcs provide an exotic 2D system for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Xi-Rong Chen , Guangze Chen , Yue Zheng , Wei Chen , D. Y. Xing

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 design sub-wavelength high-performing non-reciprocal optical devices using recently discovered magnetic Weyl semimetals. These passive bulk topological materials exhibit anomalous Hall effect which results in magnetooptical effects that…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-09 Viktar Asadchy , Cheng Guo , Bo Zhao , Shanhui Fan

The surface Fermi arc, as a hallmark of Weyl semimetals (WSMs), has been well known in current research, but it remains a challenge to unveil novel phenomena associated with the Fermi arc. Here, we predict a heretofore unrecognized process…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Jin Cao , Maoyuan Wang , Zhi-Ming Yu , Yugui Yao

Weyl semimetals are a new paradigmatic topological phase of matter featuring a gapless spectrum. One of its most distinctive features is the presence of Fermi arc surface states. Here, we report on atomistic simulations of the dc…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-20 Jose Chesta Lopez , Luis E. F. Foa Torres , Alvaro S. Nunez

Recent years have seen the rapid discovery of solids whose low-energy electrons have a massless, linear dispersion, such as Weyl, line-node, and Dirac semimetals. The remarkable optical properties predicted in these materials show their…

By combining bulk sensitive soft-X-ray angular-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and accurate first-principles calculations we explored the bulk electronic properties of WTe$_2$, a candidate type-II Weyl semimetal featuring a large…

Transport measurements are a powerful way to probe the electronic structure of quantum materials, but the information they contain is often convoluted. Yet, in particular for simple low-energy fermiologies, and by combining linear and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Andrea Kouta Dagnino , Xiaoxiong Liu , Titus Neupert

We discover three-dimensional intertwined Weyl phases, by developing a theory to create topological phases. The theory is based on intertwining existing topological gapped and gapless phases protected by the same crystalline symmetry. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 W. B. Rui , Zhen Zheng , Moritz M. Hirschmann , Song-Bo Zhang , Chenjie Wang , Z. D. Wang

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…