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The Nambu-Gorkov Green's function approach is applied to strongly type-II superconductivity in a 2D spin-momentum locked (Weyl) Fermi gas model at high perpendicular magnetic fields. When the chemical potential is sufficiently close to the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-02-14 Vladimir Zhuravlev , Wenye Duan , Tsofar Maniv

Surface Fermi arcs are the most prominent manifestation of the topological nature of Weyl semimetals. In the presence of a static magnetic field oriented perpendicular to the sample surface, their existence leads to unique inter-surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-22 Yuval Baum , Erez Berg , S. A. Parameswaran , Ady Stern

We present a semiclassical explanation for the morphology of the surface Fermi arcs of Weyl semimetals. Viewing the surface states as a two-dimensional Fermi gas subject to band bending and Berry curvatures, we show that it is the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 Jiajia Huang , Luyang Wang , Dao-Xin Yao

We begin this review with an introduction and a discussion of Weyl fermions as emergent particles in condensed matter systems, and explain how high energy phenomena like the chiral anomaly can be seen in low energy experiments. We then…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Sumathi Rao

Smooth interfaces of topological systems are known to host massive surface states along with the topologically protected chiral one. We show that in Weyl semimetals these massive states, along with the chiral Fermi arc, strongly alter the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Xin Lu , Dibya Kanti Mukherjee , Mark O. Goerbig

Weyl semimetals (WSMs) constitute a 3D phase with linearly-dispersing Weyl excitations at low energy, which lead to unusual electrodynamic responses and open Fermi arcs on boundaries. We derive a simple criterion to identify and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-28 William Witczak-Krempa , Michael Knap , Dmitry Abanin

We study the dynamics of a non-magnetic impurity interacting with the surface states of a 3D and 2D topological insulator. Employing the linked cluster technique we develop a formalism for obtaining the Greens function of the mobile…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-26 Ajit Kumar Sorout , Surajit Sarkar , Suhas Gangadharaiah

We study impurity scattering in the normal and d-wave superconducting states of line nodal semimetals and show that, due to additional scattering phase space available for impurities on the surface, the quasiparticle interference pattern…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-05-03 Chandan Setty , Philip W. Phillips , Awadhesh Narayan

Physicists have discovered a novel topological semimetal, the Weyl semimetal, whose surface features a non-closed Fermi surface while the low energy quasiparticles in the bulk emerge as Weyl fermions. Here they share a brief review of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-08 Shuang Jia , Su-Yang Xu , M. Zahid Hasan

Weyl semimetal showing open-arc surface states is a prominent example of topological quantum matter in three dimensions. With the bulk-boundary correspondence present, nontrivial surface-bulk hybridization is inevitable but less understood.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Xiao-Xiao Zhang , Naoto Nagaosa

For the application of topological materials, the specific location of their topological surface states with respect to the Fermi level are important. {\gamma}-PtBi2 has been demonstrated to be a Weyl semimetal possessing superconducting…

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

The surface states of Weyl semi-metals (SM's) consist of disjointed Fermi-arcs. This unusual surface-Fermiology provides a fingerprint of the topological features of the bulk Weyl-phase. Using a combination of semiclassical and numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-22 Andrew C. Potter , Itamar Kimchi , Ashvin Vishwanath

We introduce the concept of quasi-metaparticles based on the theory of metaparticles, the zero modes of the metastring. We apply the concept of quasi-metaparticles to the problem of non-Fermi liquids and the properties of strange metals. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-23 Edwin Barnes , J. J. Heremans , Djordje Minic

Recent experiments on non-magnetic Weyl semimetals have seen separate bulk and surface superconductivity in Weyl semimetals, which raises the question of whether the surface Fermi arcs can support intrinsic superconductivity while the bulk…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-21 Aymen Nomani , Pavan Hosur

Recent breakthrough in search for the analogs of fundamental particles in condensed matter systems lead to experimental realizations of 3D Dirac and Weyl semimetals. Weyl state can be hosted either by non-centrosymmetric or magnetic…

Weyl semimetals are 3D condensed matter systems characterized by a degenerate Fermi surface, consisting of a pair of `Weyl nodes'. Correspondingly, in the infrared limit, these systems behave effectively as Weyl fermions in $3+1$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-10 A. Giuliani , V. Mastropietro , M. Porta

We define and study a three dimensional lattice model which displays a Weyl semi-metallic phase. This model consists of coupled layers of quantum (anomalous) Hall insulators. The Weyl semi-metallic phase appears between a resulting quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-26 Pierre Delplace , Jian Li , David Carpentier

Weyl semimetals exhibit exotic Fermi-arc surface states, which strongly affect their electromagnetic properties. We derive analytical expressions for all components of the composite density-spin response tensor for the surfaces states of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-07 Sayandip Ghosh , Carsten Timm

The chiral surface states of Weyl semimetals have an open Fermi surface called Fermi arc. At the interface between two Weyl semimetals, these Fermi arcs are predicted to hybridize and alter their connectivity. In this letter, we numerically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-07 D. -H. -Minh Nguyen , Chiara Devescovi , Dung Xuan Nguyen , Hai Son Nguyen , Dario Bercioux