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Insulating states can be topologically nontrivial, a well-established notion that is exemplified by the quantum Hall effect and topological insulators. By contrast, topological metals have not been experimentally evidenced until recently.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-09 Hsin-Hua Lai , Sarah E. Grefe , Silke Paschen , Qimiao Si

We study light propagation in a neutral Weyl semimetal with the Fermi level lying at the Weyl nodes in the weak self-interacting regime. The nontrivial topology induces a screening effect in one of the two transverse gauge fields, for which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-14 Yago Ferreiros , Alberto Cortijo

Ideal Weyl semimetals with all Weyl nodes exactly at the Fermi level and no coexisting trivial Fermi surfaces in the bulk, similar to graphene, could feature deep physics such as exotic transport phenomena induced by the chiral anomaly.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-06 Jiawei Ruan , Shao-Kai Jian , Hong Yao , Haijun Zhang , Shou-Cheng Zhang , Dingyu Xing

Recently discussed topological materials Weyl-semimetals (WSs) combine both: high electron mobility comparable with graphene and unique topological protection of Dirac points. We present novel results related to electromagnetic field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 Nikolay M. Chtchelkatchev , Oleg L. Berman , Roman Ya. Kezerashvili , Yurii E. Lozovik

Optical conductivity (OC) can serve as a measure of correlation effects in a wide range of condensed matter systems. We here show that the long-range tail of the Coulomb interaction yields a universal correction to the OC in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-18 Bitan Roy , Vladimir Juricic

Weyl fermions, which are fermions with definite chiralities, can give rise to anomalous breaking of the symmetry of the physical system which they are a part of. In their (3+1)-dimensional realizations in condensed matter systems, i.e., the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-17 Jimmy A. Hutasoit , Jiadong Zang , Radu Roiban , Chao-Xing Liu

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

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

Nonsymmoprhic symmetries, such as screw rotations or glide reflections, can enforce band crossings within high-symmetry lines or planes of the Brillouin zone. When these band degeneracies are close to the Fermi energy, they can give rise to…

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, particularly Weyl semimetals (WSMs), are crucial platforms for exploring emergent quantum phenomena due to their unique electronic structures and potential to transition into various topological phases. In this…

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

Heavy fermion semimetals represent a promising setting to explore topological metals driven by strong correlations. In this paper, we i) summarize the theoretical results in a Weyl-Kondo semimetal phase for a strongly correlated model with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-22 Sarah E. Grefe , Hsin-Hua Lai , Silke Paschen , Qimiao Si

Nonlinear optical responses are a crucial probe of physical systems including periodic solids. In the absence of electron-electron interactions, they are calculable with standard perturbation theory starting from the band structure of Bloch…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-16 Daniel E. Parker , Takahiro Morimoto , Joseph Orenstein , Joel E. Moore

Weyl fermions as emergent quasiparticles can arise in Weyl semimetals (WSMs) in which the energy bands are nondegenerate, resulting from inversion or time-reversal symmetry breaking. Nevertheless, experimental evidence for magnetically…

For first-order topological semimetals, non-Hermitian perturbations can drive the Weyl nodes into Weyl exceptional rings having multiple topological structures and no Hermitian counterparts. Recently, it was discovered that higher-order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-11 Tao Liu , James Jun He , Zhongmin Yang , Franco Nori

We study interaction effects, including both long-ranged Coulomb and short-range interactions, in three-dimensional topological triple-Weyl semimetals whose triple-Weyl points are protected by crystal symmetries. By performing Wilsonian…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-27 Shi-Xin Zhang , Shao-Kai Jian , Hong Yao

We explore optical activity in thin films and bulk of type-I and type II Weyl semimetals (WSM), and demonstrate the existence of a giant Kerr effect in both. In time-reversal symmetry broken WSM thin films, the polarization rotation is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Kabyashree Sonowal , Ashutosh Singh , Amit Agarwal

We introduce superconducting proximity effects in Weyl semi-metals (WSM) with broken time reversal symmetry by tunnel coupling one of its surfaces to an s-wave superconductor using the Green's function approach. We find that the band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-09 Udit Khanna , Arijit Kundu , Saurabh Pradhan , Sumathi Rao

Weyl semimetals hold great promise in revolutionizing nonreciprocal optical components due to their unique topological properties. By exhibiting nonreciprocal magneto-optical effects without necessitating an external magnetic field, these…