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Higher-order topology yields intriguing multidimensional topological phenomena, while Weyl semimetals have unconventional properties such as chiral anomaly. However, so far, Weyl physics remain disconnected with higher-order topology. Here,…

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For first-order topological semimetals, non-Hermitian perturbations can drive the Weyl nodes into Weyl exceptional rings having multiple topological structures and no Hermitian counterparts. Recently, it was discovered that higher-order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-11 Tao Liu , James Jun He , Zhongmin Yang , Franco Nori

Higher-order Weyl semimetals are a family of recently predicted topological phases simultaneously showcasing unconventional properties derived from Weyl points, such as chiral anomaly, and multidimensional topological phenomena originating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-06 Yuang Pan , Chaoxi Cui , Qiaolu Chen , Fujia Chen , Li Zhang , Yudong Ren , Ning Han , Wenhao Li , Xinrui Li , Zhi-Ming Yu , Hongsheng Chen , Yihao Yang

The Weyl semimetal phase is a recently discovered topological quantum state of matter characterized by the presence of topologically protected degeneracies near the Fermi level. These degeneracies are the source of exotic phenomena,…

We report the discovery of a time-reversal symmetric Weyl semimetal obtained by modifying a model Hamiltonian describing the electronic properties of conventional alkali metals. The artificially generated Weyl semimetal features four…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-06-11 Joseba Goikoetxea , Jorge Bravo-Abad , Jaime Merino

Weyl semimetals are conductors whose low-energy bulk excitations are Weyl fermions, whereas their surfaces possess metallic Fermi arc surface states. These Fermi arc surface states are protected by a topological invariant associated with…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-24 M. Zahid Hasan , Su-Yang Xu , Ilya Belopolski , Shin-Ming Huang

Topological states of matter have been a subject of intensive studies in recent years because of their exotic properties such as the topologically protected edge and surface states. The initial studies were exclusively for electron systems.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 Ying Su , X. S. Wang , X. R. Wang

Physicists have discovered a novel topological semimetal, the Weyl semimetal, whose surface features a non-closed Fermi surface while the low energy quasiparticles in the bulk emerge as Weyl fermions. Here they share a brief review of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-08 Shuang Jia , Su-Yang Xu , M. Zahid Hasan

We discover three-dimensional intertwined Weyl phases, by developing a theory to create topological phases. The theory is based on intertwining existing topological gapped and gapless phases protected by the same crystalline symmetry. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 W. B. Rui , Zhen Zheng , Moritz M. Hirschmann , Song-Bo Zhang , Chenjie Wang , Z. D. Wang

We begin this review with an introduction and a discussion of Weyl fermions as emergent particles in condensed matter systems, and explain how high energy phenomena like the chiral anomaly can be seen in low energy experiments. We then…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Sumathi Rao

Weyl semimetal is a new quantum state of matter [1-12] hosting the condensed matter physics counterpart of relativisticWeyl fermion [13] originally introduced in high energy physics. The Weyl semimetal realized in the TaAs class features…

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

Weyl semimetals display a novel topological phase of matter where the Weyl nodes emerge in pairs of opposite chirality and can be seen as either a source or a sink of Berry curvature. The exotic effects in Weyl semimetals, such as surface…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-02 Davide Iaia , Guoqing Chang , Tay-Rong Chang , Jin Hu , Zhiqiang Mao , Hsin Lin , Shichao Yan , Vidya Madhavan

Topological semimetal, hosting spin-1 Weyl point beyond Dirac and Weyl points, has attracted a great deal of attention. However, the spin-1 Weyl semimetal, which possesses exclusively the spin-1 Weyl points in a clean frequency window,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-25 Weiyin Deng , Xueqin Huang , Jiuyang Lu , Feng Li , Jiahong Ma , Shuqi Chen , Zhengyou Liu

Weyl semimetals are a new member of the topological materials family, featuring a pair of singly degenerate Weyl cones with linear dispersion around the nodes in the bulk, and Fermi arcs on the surface. Depending on whether the system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-29 Hao Zheng , M. Zahid Hasan

We review the differential topology underlying the topological protection of energy band crossings in Weyl semimetals, and how they lead to the experimental signature of surface Fermi arcs.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-12-24 Guo Chuan Thiang

Topological materials have been a main focus of studies in the past decade due to their protected properties that can be exploited for the fabrication of new devices. Among them, Weyl semimetals are a class of topological semimetals with…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-05 Davide Grassano , Luca Binci , Nicola Marzari

Weyl points emerge as topological monopoles of Berry flux in the three-dimensional (3D) momentum space and have been extensively studied in topological semimetals. As the underlying topological principles apply to any type of waves under…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 Hao Ge , Xu Ni , Yuan Tian , Samit Kumar Gupta , Ming-Hui Lu , Xin Lin , Wei-Dong Huang , C. T. Chan , Yan-Feng Chen

Fermi arcs on Weyl semimetals exhibit many exotic quantum phenomena. Usually considered on atomically-flat surfaces with approximate translation symmetry, Fermi arcs are rooted in peculiar topology of bulk Bloch bands of three-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-15 Xiaohu Zheng , Qiangqiang Gu , Yiyuan Liu1 , Bingbing Tong , Jian-Feng Zhang , Chi Zhang , Shuang Jia , Ji Feng , Rui-Rui Du1

In the recently discovered Weyl semimetals, the Fermi surface may feature disjoint, open segments -- the so-called Fermi arcs -- associated with topological states bound to exposed crystal surfaces. Here we show that the collective dynamics…

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