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We study the quasiparticle interference (QPI) patterns caused by scattering off nonmagnetic, magnetic point impurities, and edge impurities, separately, in a two dimensional helical liquid, which describes the surface states of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Xiaoting Zhou , Chen Fang , Wei-Feng Tsai , Jiangping Hu

The layered compound $\gamma$-PtBi$_2$ is a topological semimetal with Fermi arcs at the surface joining bulk Weyl points. Recent work has found signatures of surface superconductivity consisting of gap openings compatible with a critical…

Weyl semimetals are topological materials with protected Weyl nodes in the band structure. In these materials the surface states form open curves at the Fermi surface, Fermi arcs in Weyl semimetals and drumhead states of nodal-line…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Enrique Benito-Matías , Rafael A. Molina

The measurement of quasiparticle scattering patterns on material surfaces using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) is now an established technique for accessing the momentum-resolved electronic band structure of solids. However, since…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-03 Xinze Yang , Alexander F. Kemper , Adrian Gozar , Eduardo H. da Silva Neto

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

Weyl semimetals host topologically protected surface states, the so-called Fermi arcs, that have a penetration depth into the bulk that depends on surface-momentum, and diverges at the Weyl points. It has recently been observed in PtBi$_2$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-12 Mattia Trama , Viktor Könye , Ion Cosma Fulga , Jeroen van den Brink

Understanding correlation effects in topological phases of matter is at the forefront of current research in condensed matter physics. Here we try to clarify some subtleties in studying topological behaviors of interacting Weyl semimetals.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-30 Min-Fong Yang

Fermi arcs, i.e., surface states connecting topologically-distinct Weyl points, represent a paradigmatic manifestation of the topological aspects of Weyl physics. Here, we investigate a light-matter interface based on the photonic…

We report the direct evidence of impacts of the Coulomb interaction in a prototypical Weyl semimetal, MoTe2, that alter its bare bands in a wide range of energy and momentum. Our quasiparticle interference patterns measured using scanning…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-10 Seoung-Hun Kang , Sangjun Jeon , Hyun-Jung Kim , Wonhee Ko , Suyeon Cho , Se Hwang Kang , Sung Wng Kim , Heejun Yang , Hyo Won Kim , Young-Woo Son

Very recently, the half-metallic compound Co$_3$Sn$_2$S$_2$ was predicted to be a magnetic WSM with Weyl points only 60 meV above the Fermi level ($E_F$). Owing to the low charge carrier density and large Berry curvature…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-24 Qiunan Xu , Enke Liu , Wujun Shi , Lukas Muechler , Jacob Gayles , Claudia Felser , Yan Sun

We solve the Weyl electron scattered by a spherical step potential barrier. Tuning the incident energy and the potential radius, one can enter both quasiclassical and quantum regimes. Transport features related to far-field currents and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-07 Ming Lu , Xiao-Xiao Zhang

We predict that CeBi in the ferromagnetic state is a Weyl semimetal. Our calculations within density functional theory show the existence of two pairs of Weyl nodes on the momentum path $(0, 0, k_z)$ at $15$ meV} above and $100$ meV below…

The Weyl semimetal surface is modeled by applying the Bogolyubov boundary conditions, in which the quasiparticles have an infinite Dirac mass outside the semimetal. For a Weyl semimetal shaped as a slab of finite thickness, we derive an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-19 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , P. O. Sukhachov

Recent neutron scattering and thermodynamic measurements suggest that Weyl electrons in the emergent Weyl semimetal SmAlSi mediate unconventional magnetic interactions and induce spiral magnetic order. In this work, we investigate the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-18 Lasin Thaivalappil , Rahul Verma , Hsin Lin , Bahadur Singh , Shin-Ming Huang

An efficient surface integral equation-based method is proposed for the analysis of electromagnetic scattering from multilayered media containing complex periodic inclusions. The proposed method defines equivalent currents at the interfaces…

Optics · Physics 2014-08-19 Nilufer A. Ozdemir , Christophe Craeye

We study the effects of disorder on semi-infinite Weyl and Dirac semimetals where the presence of a boundary leads to the formation of either Fermi arcs/rays or Dirac surface states. Using a local version of the self-consistent Born…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Eric Brillaux , Andrei A. Fedorenko

Topological band theory has revolutionized our understanding of electronic structure of materials, in particular, a novel state - Weyl semimetal - has been predicted for systems with strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC). Here, a new class of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-20 Yuanping Chen , Yuee Xie , Shengyuan A. Yang , Hui Pan , Fan Zhang , Marvin L. Cohen , Shengbai Zhang

We perform ultrahigh resolution angle-resolved photoemission experiments at a temperature T=0.8 K on the type-II Weyl semimetal candidate WTe$_{2}$. We find a surface Fermi arc connecting the bulk electron and hole pockets on the (001)…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-12 J. Sánchez-Barriga , M. G. Vergniory , D. Evtushinsky , I. Aguilera , A. Varykhalov , S. Blügel , O. Rader

We report angle-resolved photoemission experiments resolving the distinct electronic structure of the inequivalent top and bottom (001) surfaces of WTe2. On both surfaces, we identify a surface state that forms a large Fermi-arc emerging…

Resonant X-ray scattering (RXS) has recently become an increasingly important tool for the study of ordering phenomena in correlated electron systems. Yet, the interpretation of the RXS experiments remains theoretically challenging due to…