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Weyl semimetals (WSMs) are characterized by topologically stable pairs of nodal points in the band structure, that typically originate from splitting a degenerate Dirac point by breaking symmetries such as time reversal or inversion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-29 L. Crippa , A. Amaricci , N. Wagner , G. Sangiovanni , J. C. Budich , M. Capone

The manifestation of Weyl fermions in strongly correlated electron systems is of particular interest. We report evidence for Weyl fermions in the heavy fermion semimetal YbPtBi from electronic structure calculations, angle-resolved…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-07 C. Y. Guo , F. Wu , Z. Z. Wu , M. Smidman , C. Cao , A. Bostwick , C. Jozwiak , E. Rotenberg , Y. Liu , F. Steglich , H. Q. Yuan

We analyze the effect of the tilt on the transverse thermoelectric coefficient of Weyl semimetals in the \emph{conformal} limit, i.e., zero temperature and zero chemical potential. Using the Kubo formalism, we find a nonmonotonic behavior…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Thorvald M. Ballestad , Alberto Cortijo , María A. H. Vozmediano , Alireza Qaiumzadeh

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

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

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

The recent discovery of Weyl fermions in solids enables exploitation of relativistic physics and development of a spectrum of intriguing physical phenomena. They are constituted of pairs of Weyl points with two-fold band degeneracy, which…

In topological Weyl semimetals, the low energy excitations are comprised of linearly dispersing Weyl fermions, which act as monopoles of Berry curvature in momentum space and result in topologically protected Fermi arcs on the surfaces. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-06 Timothy M. McCormick , Sarah J. Watzman , Joseph P. Heremans , Nandini Trivedi

Landau's Fermi-liquid theory is the standard model for metals, characterized by the existence of electron quasiparticles near a Fermi surface as long as Landau's interaction parameters lie below critical values for instabilities. Recently,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-27 Ki-Seok Kim , Heon-Jung Kim , M. Sasaki , J. -F. Wang , L. Li

Topological semimetals are three-dimensional topological states of matter, in which the conduction and valence bands touch at a finite number of points, i.e., the Weyl nodes. Topological semimetals host paired monopoles and antimonopoles of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-13 Hai-Zhou Lu , Shun-Qing Shen

Weyl metal is the first example of a conducting material with a nontrivial electronic structure topology, making it distinct from an ordinary metal. Unlike in insulators, the nontrivial topology is not related to invariants, associated with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 A. A. Burkov

We study the thermoelectric properties of a double-Weyl fermion system, possibly realized in $\mathrm{HgCr_2Se_4}$ and $\mathrm{SrSi_2}$, by a semi-classical Boltzmann transport theory. We investigate different relaxation processes…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-04-20 Qi Chen , Gregory A. Fiete

Solids with topologically robust electronic states exhibit unusual electronic and optical transport properties that do not exist in other materials. A particularly interesting example is chiral charge pumping, the so-called chiral anomaly,…

Weyl semimetals are predicted to realize the three-dimensional axial anomaly first discussed in particle physics. The anomaly leads to unusual transport phenomena such as the chiral magnetic effect in which an applied magnetic field induces…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Edwin Barnes , J. J. Heremans , Djordje Minic

We study viscoelastic response in Weyl semimetals with broken time-reversal symmetry. The principal finding is that topology and anisotropy of the Fermi surface are manifested in the viscoelasticity tensor of the electron fluid. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-24 A. A. Herasymchuk , E. V. Gorbar , P. O. Sukhachov

We consider the properties of the type II Weyl semimetals at low temperatures basing on the particular tight - binding model. In the presence of electric field directed along the line connecting the Weyl points of opposite chirality the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 M. A. Zubkov , M. Lewkowicz

In Weyl semimetals subjected to torsion, there are two different kinds of chirality: i) the (coordinate-space) shape of the twisted crystal is chiral, and ii) the momentum space contains chiral quasi-particles. Here we construct a general…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Lan-Lan Gao , Sahal Kaushik , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Evan John Philip

We analyze the structure of the surface states and Fermi arcs of Weyl semimetals as a function of the boundary conditions parameterizing the Hamiltonian self-adjoint extensions of a minimal model with two Weyl points. These boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Michele Burrello , Enore Guadagnini , Luca Lepori , Mihail Mintchev

Weyl semimetals in three-dimensional crystals provide the paradigm example of topologically protected band nodes. It is usually taken for granted that a pair of colliding Weyl points annihilate whenever they carry opposite chiral charge. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 Adrien Bouhon , QuanSheng Wu , Robert-Jan Slager , Hongming Weng , Oleg V. Yazyev , Tomáš Bzdušek

We review our recent works on the quantum transport, mainly in topological semimetals and also in topological insulators, organized according to the strength of the magnetic field. At weak magnetic fields, we explain the negative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-07 Hai-Peng Sun , Hai-Zhou Lu