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The tetragonal ferrimagnetic Mn$_3$Ga exhibits a wide range of intriguing magnetic properties. Here, we report the emergence of topologically nontrivial nodal lines in the absence of spin orbit coupling (SOC) which are protected by both…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-09 Cheng-Yi Huang , Hugo Aramberri , Hsin Lin , Nicholas Kioussis

We present a new switching mechanism that utilizes the proximity coupling between the surface spin texture of a Weyl semimetal and a superconductor, in a Weyl semimetal/superconductor/Weyl semimetal trilayer heterostructure. We show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-20 Narayan Mohanta , A. Taraphder , Elbio Dagotto , Satoshi Okamoto

We consider magnetic Weyl metals as a platform to achieve current control of magnetization textures with transport currents, utilizing their underlying band geometry. We show that the transport current in a Weyl semimetal produces an axial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 J. G. Yang , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , D. A. Pesin

We investigate the non-resonant all-optical switching of magnetization. We treat the inverse Faraday effect (IFE) theoretically in terms of the spin-selective optical Stark effect for linearly or circularly polarized light. In the dilute…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-20 Alireza Qaiumzadeh , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Arne Brataas

Searching for the signature of the violation of chiral charge conservation in solids has inspired a growing passion on the magneto-transport in topological semimetals. One of the open questions is how the conductivity depends on magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 Song-Bo Zhang , Hai-Zhou Lu , Shun-Qing Shen

The separation of the Weyl nodes in a broken time-reversal symmetric Weyl semimetal leads to helical quasi-particle excitations at the Weyl nodes, which, when coupled with overall spin conservation allows only inter-nodal transport at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 Udit Khanna , Dibya Kanti Mukherjee , Arijit Kundu , Sumathi Rao

Photoinduced effects are now reckoned to be important tools to reveal a rich gamut of entrancing physics in topological materials, which are normally inaccessible to conventional probes. Here we investigate one of these intriguing effects,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Suvendu Ghosh , Chuanchang Zeng , A. Taraphder , Jian-Xin Zhu , Snehasish Nandy

We theoretically predict a spin-current analog of the quantized circular photogalvanic effect in Weyl semimetals. This phenomenon is forbidden in antiferromagnets by symmetry but uniquely allowed in altermagnets, highlighting a novel and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Hiroki Yoshida , Jan Priessnitz , Libor Šmejkal , Shuichi Murakami

We propose a non-dissipative transport effect and vortical response in Weyl semimetals in the presence of spatial inhomogeneities, namely a spatially varying tilt of the Weyl cones. We show that when the spectrum is anisotropic and tilted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-28 Saber Rostamzadeh , Sevval Tasdemir , Mustafa Sarisaman , S. A. Jafari , Mark-Oliver Goerbig

Inspired by the discovery of quantum hall effect and topological insulator, topological properties of classical waves start to draw worldwide attention. Topological non-trivial bands characterized by non-zero Chern numbers are realized with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Meng Xiao , Wen-Jie Chen , Wen-Yu He , Z. Q. Zhang , C. T. Chan

Kramers Weyl semimetals are Weyl semimetals that have Weyl points pinned at the time reversal invariant momenta. Recently it has been discovered that all chiral crystals host Weyl points at time reversal invariant momenta, so metals with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-01 Wen-Yu He , Xiao Yan Xu , K. T. Law

$\mathsf{Mn_{3}Sn}$ has recently attracted considerable attention as a magnetic Weyl semimetal exhibiting concomitant transport anomalies at room temperature. The topology of the electronic bands, their relation to the magnetic ground state…

A Weyl node is characterized by its chirality and tilt. We develop a theory of how $n$th-order nonlinear optical conductivity behaves under transformations of anisotropic tensor and tilt, which clarify how chirality-dependent and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-06 Zhuocheng Lu , Ji Feng

In this work, we show that suitably designed spatially varying linearly polarized light provides a versatile route to generate and control pseudo-magnetic fields in Weyl semimetals through Floquet engineering. Within a high-frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Arpit Raj , Swati Chaudhary , Martin Rodriguez-Vega , Maia G. Vergniory , Roni Ilan , Gregory A. Fiete

The low-energy quasiparticles of Weyl semimetals are a condensed-matter realization of the Weyl fermions introduced in relativistic field theory. Chiral anomaly, the nonconservation of the chiral charge under parallel electric and magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-29 Pilkwang Kim , Ji Hoon Ryoo , Cheol-Hwan Park

Topological Dirac and Weyl semimetals have an energy spectrum that hosts Weyl nodes appearing in pairs of opposite chirality. Topological stability is ensured when the nodes are separated in momentum space and unique spectral and transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-13 Adolfo G. Grushin , Jorn W. F. Venderbos , Ashvin Vishwanath , Roni Ilan

The magnetotransport properties of disordered ferromagnetic Weyl semimetals are investigated numerically. We found an extraordinarily stable and huge magnetoresistance effect in domain walls of Weyl semimetals. This effect originates from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-25 Koji Kobayashi , Yuya Ominato , Kentaro Nomura

We consider theoretically surface plasmon polaritons in Weyl semimetals. These materials contain pairs of band touching points - Weyl nodes - with a chiral topological charge, which induces an optical anisotropy and anomalous transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-15 Johannes Hofmann , Sankar Das Sarma

The nodal points in a Weyl semimetal are generally considered as the causes of the chiral anomaly and the chiral magnetic effect (CME). Employing a linear-response analysis of a two-band lattice model, we show that the Weyl nodes and thus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-10 Ming-Che Chang , Min-Fong Yang

Periodically driven systems provide tunable platforms to realize interesting Floquet topological phases and phase transitions. In electronic systems with Weyl dispersions, the band crossings are topologically protected even in the presence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-14 Ching-Kit Chan , Yun-Tak Oh , Jung Hoon Han , Patrick A. Lee