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The Weyl semimetal exhibits various interesting physical phenomena because of the Weyl points, i.e., linear band-crossings. We show by Floquet theory that a linearly polarized light applied to a band insulator can induce controllable Weyl…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-19 Xiao-Xiao Zhang , Tze Tzen Ong , Naoto Nagaosa

We study the phase diagram for a lattice model of a time-reversal-broken three-dimensional Weyl semimetal (WSM) in an orbital magnetic field $B$ with a flux of $p/q$ per unit cell ($0\le p \le q-1$), with minimal crystalline symmetry. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-05 Faruk Abdulla , Ankur Das , Sumathi Rao , Ganpathy Murthy

In the time-reversal-breaking centrosymmetric systems, the appearance of Weyl points can be guaranteed by an odd number of all the even/odd parity occupied bands at eight inversion-symmetry-invariant momenta. Here, based on symmetry…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-05-06 Yuting Qian , Jiacheng Gao , Zhida Song , Simin Nie , Zhijun Wang , Hongming Weng , Zhong Fang

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

The propagation of light in Weyl semimetal films is analyzed. The magnetic family of these materials is known by anomalous Hall effect, which, being enhanced by the large Berry curvature, allows one to create strong gyrotropic and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-21 O. V. Kotov , Yu. E. Lozovik

Electric field manipulation plays a key role in applications such as electron acceleration, nonlinear light-matter interaction, and radiation engineering. Nonreciprocal materials, such as Weyl semimetals, enable the manipulation of the…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-30 Lu Wang

Weyl semimetals (WSM) have been discovered in time-reversal symmetric materials, featuring monopoles of Berry's curvature in momentum space. WSM have been distinguished between Type-I and II where the velocity tilting of the cone in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-19 Xu Yang , Kenneth Burch , Ying Ran

We show that the electrical transport across a minimal model for a time-reversal symmetry(TRS) breaking Weyl semi-metal (WSM) involving two Weyl nodes can be interpreted as an interferometer in momentum space. The interference phase depends…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-21 Dibya Kanti Mukherjee , Sumathi Rao , Sourin Das

Periodic laser driving, known as Floquet engineering, is a powerful tool to manipulate the properties of quantum materials. Using circularly polarized light, artificial magnetic fields, called Berry curvature, can be created in the…

We demonstrate that in Weyl semimetals, the momentum-space helical spin texture can couple to the chirality of the Weyl node to generate a frequency-independent magnetization in response to circularly polarized light through the inverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-29 Yang Gao , Chong Wang , Di Xiao

The subtle interplay of band topology and symmetry broken phase, induced by electron correlations, has immense contemporary relevance and potentially offers novel physical insights. Here, we demonstrate charge density wave (CDW) in bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-13 Abhishek Juyal , Vinod Kumar Dwivedi , Sonu Verma , Shibabrata Nandi , Amit Agarwal , Soumik Mukhopadhyay

Van Roosbroeck's equations constitute a versatile tool to determine the dynamics of electrons under time- and space-dependent perturbations. Extensively utilized in ordinary semiconductors, their potential to model devices made from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 Pierre-Antoine Graham , Simon Bertrand , Michaël Bédard , Robin Durand , Ion Garate

We study the optical properties of Weyl semimetal (WSM) in a model which features, in addition to the usual term describing isolated Dirac cones proportional to the Fermi velocity $v_{F}$, a gap term $m$ and a Zeeman spin-splitting term $b$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-11 S. P. Mukherjee , J. P. Carbotte

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

The electric and chiral current response to the time- and coordinate-dependent pseudoelectric field $\mathbf{E}_5$ in Weyl semimetals is studied. It is found that $\mathbf{E}_5$ leads to an electric current in the direction perpendicular to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 A. A. Herasymchuk , P. O. Sukhachov , E. V. Gorbar

We investigate the dynamics of the Weyl quasiparticles emerged in an optical lattice where the topological Weyl semimental and trivial band insulator phases can be adjusted with the on-site energy. The evolution of the density distribution…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-10-19 Zhi Li , Huai-Qiang Wang , Dan-Wei Zhang , Shi-Liang Zhu , Ding-Yu Xing

A magnetic Weyl semimetal is a recent focus of extensive research as it may exhibit large and robust transport phenomena associated with topologically protected Weyl points in momentum space. Since a magnetic texture provides a handle for…

We propose the linear and nonlinear planar Hall effect (PHE) in tilted Weyl semimetals in the presence of an in-plane magnetic and electric field, where the field-induced Berry connection (FBC) plays a key role. We show that the PHE is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-08 YuanDong Wang , Zhen-Gang Zhu , Gang Su

Magnetic Weyl semimetal (WSM) is of great importance both for fundamental physics and potential applications due to its spontaneous magnetism, robust band topology, and enhanced Berry curvature. It possesses many unique quantum effects,…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-15 Yuefang Hu , Changming Yue , Danwen Yuan , Jiacheng Gao , Zhigao Huang , Zhong Fang , Chen Fang , Hongming Weng , Wei Zhang

We investigate the tunneling conductance of Weyl semimetal with tilted energy dispersion by considering electron transmission through a p-n-p junction with one-dimensional electric and magnetic barrier. In the presence of both electric and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-21 Can Yesilyurt , Seng Ghee Tan , Gengchiau Liang , Mansoor B. A. Jalil