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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

Anomaly cancelation has been shown to occur in time-reversal symmetry-broken Weyl metals, which explains the existence of a Fermi arc. We extend this result in the case of inversion symmetry-broken Weyl metals. Constructing a minimal model…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-18 Iksu Jang , Ki-Seok Kim

The existence and topological classification of lower-dimensional Fermi surfaces is often tied to the crystal symmetries of the underlying lattice systems. Artificially engineered lattices, such as heterostructures and other superlattices,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-08 Jan Behrends , Jun-Won Rhim , Shang Liu , Adolfo G. Grushin , Jens H. Bardarson

The discovery of Weyl semimetals represents a significant advance in topological band theory. They paradigmatically enlarged the classification of topological materials to gapless systems while simultaneously providing experimental evidence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 P. Rüßmann , A. P. Weber , F. Glott , N. Xu , M. Fanciulli , S. Muff , A. Magrez , P. Bugnon , H. Berger , M. Bode , J. H. Dil , S. Blügel , P. Mavropoulos , P. Sessi

Recently discovered Weyl semimetals (WSM) have found special place in topological condensed matter studies for they represent first example of massless Weyl fermions found in condensed matter systems. A WSM shows gapless bulk energy spectra…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-23 Satyaki Kar , Arun M Jayannavar

The topological nature of the band structure of a Weyl semimetal leads to a number of unique transport and optical properties. For example, the description of the propagation of an electromagnetic wave in a Weyl semimetal with broken…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Olivier Trépanier , Rémi N. Duchesne , Jérémie J. Boudreault , René Côté

We report a study of Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations in high quality single crystals of ferromagnetic Weyl semimetal Co$_3$Sn$_2$S$_2$. The Fermi surfaces resolved in our experiments are three-dimensional and reflect an underlying trigonal…

In Weyl semimetals with broken inversion and time-reversal symmetries, the Maxwell equations are modified by the presence of the axion terms $\mathbf{b} $ and $b_{0}$ where, in the simplest case of a two-node Weyl semimetal, $% 2\hslash…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-04 René Côté , Rémi N. Duchesne , Gautier D. Duchesne , Olivier Trépanier

A Weyl semimetal wire with an axial magnetization has metallic surface states (Fermi arcs) winding along its perimeter, connecting bulk Weyl cones of opposite topological charge (Berry curvature). We investigate what happens to this "Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-23 P. Baireuther , J. Tworzydło , M. Breitkreiz , I. Adagideli , C. W. J. Beenakker

We investigate the interplay of many-body and band structure effects of interacting Weyl semimetals (WSM). Attractive and repulsive Hubbard interactions are studied within a model for a time-reversal-breaking WSM with tetragonal symmetry,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-01-06 Manuel Laubach , Christian Platt , Ronny Thomale , Titus Neupert , Stephan Rachel

We generalize a semiclassical theory and use the argument of angular momentum conservation to examine the ballistic transport in lightly-doped Weyl semimetals, taking into account various phase-space Berry curvatures. We predict universal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-14 Shengyuan A. Yang , Hui Pan , Fan Zhang

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

Spintronics has emerged as a viable alternative to traditional electronics based technologies in the past few decades. While on one hand, the discovery of topological phases of matter with protected spin-polarized states has opened up…

We extend the study of fermionic particle-hole symmetric semi-Dirac (alternatively, semi-Weyo) dispersion of quasiparticles, $\varepsilon_K = \pm \sqrt{(k_x^2/2m)^2 + (vk_y)^2)} = \pm \varepsilon_0 \sqrt{K_x^4 + K_y^2}$ in dimensionless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Swapnonil Banerjee , Warren E. Pickett

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

Weyl semimetals constitute a newly discovered class of three-dimensional topological materials with linear touchings of valence and conduction bands in the bulk. The most striking property of topological origin in these materials, so far…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 Stefanos Kourtis , Jian Li , Zhijun Wang , Ali Yazdani , B. Andrei Bernevig

Previous work has shown that time-reversal symmetric Weyl semimetals with a quadrupolar arrangement of first-order Weyl nodes exhibit a mixed crystalline-electromagnetic response. For systems with higher order Weyl nodes, which are attached…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Mark R. Hirsbrunner , Alexander D. Gray , Taylor L. Hughes

The discovery of topological phases introduces new perspectives and platforms for various interesting physics originally investigated in quantum context and then, on an equal footing, in classic wave systems, such as photonics, acoustics…

Creating and manipulating topological states is a key goal of condensed matter physics. Periodic driving offers a powerful method to manipulate electronic states, and even to create topological states in solids. Here, we investigate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-03 Xiu-Li Du , Rui Chen , Rui Wang , Dong-Hui Xu

We predict a novel metallic state of matter that emerges in a Weyl-semimetal superstructure with spatially varying Weyl-node positions. In the new state, the Weyl nodes are stretched into extended, anisotropic Fermi surfaces, which can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-15 Maxim Breitkreiz , Piet W. Brouwer