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We experimentally compare two types of interface structures with magnetic and non-magnetic Weyl semimetals. They are the junctions between a gold normal layer and magnetic Weyl semimetal Ti$_2$MnAl, and a ferromagnetic nickel layer and…

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Dynamics and textures of magnetic domain walls (DWs) may largely alter the electronic behaviors in a Weyl semimetal system via emergent gauge fields. However, very little is known about even the basic properties of these domain walls in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-01 Bochao Xu , Jacob Franklin , Hung-Yu Yang , Fazel Tafti , Ilya Sochnikov

The minimal coupling of strain to Dirac and Weyl semimetals, and its modeling as a pseudo-gauge field has been extensively studied, resulting in several proposed topological transport signatures. In this work, we study the effects of strain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-21 Varsha Subramanyan , Shi-Zeng Lin , Avadh Saxena

In this paper, the chiral Hall effect of strained Weyl semimetals without any external magnetic field is proposed. Electron-phonon coupling emerges in the low-energy fermionic sector through a pseudogauge potential. We show that, by using…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-22 Shiva Heidari , Reza Asgari

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

We investigate the tunneling of the quasiparticles arising in multi-Weyl semimetals through a barrier consisting of both electrostatic and vector potentials, existing uniformly in a finite region along the transmission axis. The dispersion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Ipsita Mandal , Aritra Sen

Weyl semimetals are gapless topological states of matter with broken inversion and/or time reversal symmetry, which can support unconventional responses to externally applied electrical, optical and magnetic fields. Here we report a new…

By means of high-resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy, we investigate the low-energy excitation spectrum of transition-metal monopnictides hosting Weyl fermions. We observe gapped plasmonic modes in (001)-oriented surfaces of single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 Gennaro Chiarello , Johannes Hofmann , Zhilin Li , Vito Fabio , Liwei Guo , Xiaolong Chen , Sankar Das Sarma , Antonio Politano

The spectrum of collective excitations in Weyl materials is studied by using consistent hydrodynamics. The corresponding framework includes the vortical and chiral anomaly effects, as well as the dependence on the separations between the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-13 P. O. Sukhachov , E. V. Gorbar , I. A. Shovkovy , V. A. Miransky

Theories have revealed the universality of the band tilting effect in topological Weyl semimetals (WSMs) and its implications for the material's physical properties. However, the experimental identification of tilted Weyl bands remains much…

The collapse of Landau levels under an electric field perpendicular to the magnetic field is one of the distinctive features of Dirac materials. So is the coupling of lattice deformations to the electronic degrees of freedom in the form of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-19 Yang-Jun Lee , Cheol-Hwan Park , María A. H. Vozmediano

Weyl semimetals are characterized by their bulk Weyl points -- conical band touching points that carry a topological monopole charge -- and Fermi arc states that span between the Weyl points on the surface of the material. Recently,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-13 Guangze Chen , Wei Chen , Oded Zilberberg

We demonstrate that the introduction of a subwavelength periodic modulation into a metallic structure strongly modifies the guiding characteristics of the surface plasmon modes supported by the system. Moreover, it is also shown how a new…

A two-dimensional (2D) Weyl semimetal featuring a spin-polarized linear band dispersion and a nodal Fermi surface is a new topological phase of matter. It is a solid-state realization of Weyl fermions in an intrinsic 2D system. The…

We explore the unusual non-reciprocal and diffraction-less properties of surface plasmon polaritons propagating in drift-biased graphene-based metasurfaces. We show that applying a drift-current on a graphene sheet leads to extremely…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 D. Correas-Serrano , J. S. Gomez-Diaz

Weyl semimetals are gapless quasi-topological materials with a set of isolated nodal points forming their Fermi surface. They manifest their quasi-topological character in a series of topological electromagnetic responses including the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-05 Hassan Shapourian , Taylor L. Hughes

We study the effects of short-range interactions on a generalized three-dimensional Weyl semimetal, where the band touching points act as the (anti)monopoles of Abelian Berry curvature of strength $n$. We show that any local interaction has…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-05-10 Bitan Roy , Pallab Goswami , Vladimir Juricic

The Weyl semimetal is characterized by three-dimensional linear band touching points called Weyl nodes. These nodes come in pairs with opposite chiralities. We show that the coupling of circularly polarized photons with these chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-19 Ching-Kit Chan , Patrick A. Lee , Kenneth S. Burch , Jung Hoon Han , Ying Ran

We study the spectra and damping of surface plasmon-polaritons in double graphene layer structures. It is shown that application of bias voltage between layers shifts the edge of plasmon absorption associated with the interband transitions.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-31 D. Svintsov , V. Vyurkov , V. Ryzhii , T. Otsuji

We study the transport properties and superconducting proximity effect in NSN junctions formed by a time-reversal symmetry broken Weyl semimetal (WSM) in proximity to an $s$-wave superconductor. We find that the differential conductance and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-07-02 Daniel Breunig , Song-Bo Zhang , Martin Stehno , Björn Trauzettel