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We study the electronic properties of strongly spin-orbit coupled electrons on the elastic pyrochlore lattice. Akin to the Peierls transition in one-dimensional systems, the coupling of the lattice to the electronic degrees of freedom can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-16 Tomáš Bzdušek , Andreas Rüegg , Manfred Sigrist

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

An external orbital magnetic field applied perpendicular to the separation vector of a pair of Weyl points can couple them and induce a gap in the electronic spectrum. In this work, we investigate the gap-opening behavior in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Faruk Abdulla , Anna Keselman , Daniel Podolsky

Based on symmetry arguments and the latest density functional results for the copper-substituted lead phosphate apatite (`LK-99'), we show that, at the non-interacting level, the material is an inversion-asymmetric Weyl semimetal. A pair of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-16 Benjamin T. Zhou , Marcel Franz

A band gap for electronic states in crystals governs various properties of solids, such as transport, optical and magnetic properties. Its estimation and control have been an important issue in solid state physics. The band gap can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-16 Shuichi Murakami , Motoaki Hirayama , Ryo Okugawa , Takashi Miyake

We study Weyl-loop semi-metals with short range interactions, focusing on the possible interaction driven instabilities. We introduce an $\epsilon$ expansion regularization scheme by means of which the possible instabilities may be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-30 Shouvik Sur , Rahul Nandkishore

We study the intrinsic and extrinsic Hall effects in disordered magnetic Weyl semimetals numerically. We show that in Weyl metals, where the Fermi energy deviates from the Weyl point, the Hall and longitudinal conductances exhibit a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-16 Koji Kobayashi , Kentaro Nomura

We study superconducting states of doped inversion-symmetric Weyl semimetals. Specifically, we consider a lattice model realizing a Weyl semimetal with an inversion symmetry and study the superconducting instability in the presence of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-01-01 Gil Young Cho , Jens H. Bardarson , Yuan-Ming Lu , Joel E. Moore

We investigate the effect of the incommensurate potential on Weyl semimetal, which is proposed to be realized in ultracold atomic systems trapped in three-dimensional optical lattices. For the system without the Fermi arc, we find that the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-05-31 Yucheng Wang , Shu Chen

Weyl semimetal is a recently discovered state of quantum matter, which generally possesses tilted energy dispersion. Here, we investigate the electron tunneling through a Weyl semimetal p-n-p junction. The angular dependence of electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Can Yesilyurt , Seng Ghee Tan , Gengchiau Liang , Shengyuan A. Yang , Mansoor B. A. Jalil

We present a theory of the anomalous Hall effect in a topological Weyl superconductor with broken time reversal symmetry. Specifically, we consider a ferromagnetic Weyl metal with two Weyl nodes of opposite chirality near the Fermi energy.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-24 G. Bednik , A. A. Zyuzin , A. A. Burkov

In this work we explore the effects of nonlinearity on three-dimensional topological phases. Of particular interest are the so-called Weyl semimetals, known for their Weyl nodes, i.e., point-like topological charges which always exist in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-17 Thomas Tuloup , Raditya Weda Bomantara , Jiangbin Gong

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

Many topologically non-trivial systems have been recently realized using electromagnetic, acoustic, and other classical wave-based platforms. As the simplest class of three-dimensional topological systems, Weyl semimetals have attracted…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-22 Kunal Shastri , Francesco Monticone

We predict a nonlinear Hall effect in certain Weyl semimetals with broken inversion symmetry. When the energy dispersions about pairs of Weyl nodes are skewed -- the Weyl cones are "tilted" -- the concerted actions of the anomalous velocity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-19 Rui-Hao Li , Olle G. Heinonen , Anton A. Burkov , Steven S. -L. Zhang

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

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

Weyl-semimetal superstructures with a spiraling position of a pair of Weyl nodes of opposite chirality can host a chiral-symmetry preserving Fermi-arc metal state, where the chirality is carried by cylindrical Fermi surfaces, electron- and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 Tommy Li , Maxim Breitkreiz

With electron and hole pockets touching at the Weyl node, type-II Weyl semimetal is a newly proposed topological state distinct from its type-I cousin. We numerically study the localization effect for tilted type-I as well as type-II Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-09 Yijia Wu , Haiwen Liu , Hua Jiang , X. C. Xie

The simplest Weyl semimetal with broken time-reversal symmetry consists of a pair of Weyl nodes located at wave vectors $\mathbf{K}_{\tau }=\tau \mathbf{b}$ in momentum space with $\tau =\pm 1$ the node index and chirality. The electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-03 René Côté , Gautier D. Duchesne , Santiago F. Lopez