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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

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

We have found a ferromagnetic Weyl semimetal (WSM) in half metallic Co$_3$Sn$_2$Se$_2$. The three pairs of Weyl points near Fermi level (E$_F$) are derived from nodal lines gapped by spin-orbit coupling (SOC). Though the Weyl points are…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-29 Qiunan Xu , Enke Liu , Wujun Shi , Lukas Muechler , Claudia Felser , Yan Sun

Domain walls in three-dimensional Weyl semimetals, formed by localized magnetic moments, are investigated. There appear bound states around the domain wall with the discrete spectrum, among which we find "Fermi arc" states with the linear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-05 Yasufumi Araki , Akihide Yoshida , Kentaro Nomura

Weyl semimetals host topologically protected surface states, with arced Fermi surface contours that are predicted to propagate through the bulk when their momentum matches that of the surface projections of the bulk's Weyl nodes. We use…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-14 Hiroyuki Inoue , Andras Gyenis , Zhijun Wang , Jian Li , Seong Woo Oh , Shan Jiang , Ni Ni , B. Andrei Bernevig , Ali Yazdani

When a metal undergoes continuous quantum phase transition, the correlation length diverges at the critical point and the quantum fluctuation of order parameter behaves as a gapless bosonic mode. Generically, the coupling of this boson to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-05-22 Xin Li , Jing-Rong Wang , Guo-Zhu Liu

Electrical manipulation of emergent phenomena due to nontrivial band topology is a key to realize next-generation technology using topological protection. A Weyl semimetal is a three-dimensional gapless system that hosts Weyl fermions as…

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

Even if Weyl semimetals are characterized by quasiparticles with well-defined chirality, exploiting this experimentally is severely hampered by Weyl lattice-fermions coming in pairs with opposite chirality, typically causing the net…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 Rajyavardhan Ray , Banasree Sadhukhan , Manuel Richter , Jorge I. Facio , Jeroen van den Brink

Weyl nodes are topological objects in three-dimensional metals. Their topological property can be revealed by studying the high-field transport properties of a Weyl semimetal. While the energy of the lowest Landau band (LLB) of a…

Weyl semimetals host relativistic chiral quasiparticles, which display quantum anomalies in the presence of external electromagnetic fields. Here, we study the manifestations of chiral anomalies in the longitudinal and planar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-06 Kamal Das , Sahil Kumar Singh , Amit Agarwal

The condensed-matter version of the chiral anomaly describes how electrons are pumped from a Weyl node with negative chirality to a Weyl node with positive chirality using parallel electric and magnetic fields. Key experimental signatures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 Yongjian Wang , Alexander Wowchik , Thomas Boemerich , A. A. Taskin , Achim Rosch , Yoichi Ando

It has been suggested recently, based on subtle field-theoretical considerations, that the electromagnetic response of Weyl semimetals and the closely related Weyl insulators can be characterized by an axion term E.B with space and time…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-11 M. M. Vazifeh , M. Franz

A Weyl semimetal with a pair of Weyl nodes accommodates chiral states on its flat surface if the Weyl nodes are projected onto two different points in the corresponding surface Brillouin zone. These surface states are collectively referred…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-18 Yositake Takane

The hydrodynamic flow of the chiral electron fluid in a Weyl semimetal slab of finite thickness is studied by using the consistent hydrodynamic theory. The latter includes viscous, anomalous, and vortical effects, as well as accounts for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-23 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , P. O. Sukhachov

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

We present a theory of the anomalous Hall effect in a topological Weyl superconductor with broken time reversal symmetry. Specifically, we consider a ferromagnetic Weyl metal with two Weyl nodes of opposite chirality near the Fermi energy.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-24 G. Bednik , A. A. Zyuzin , A. A. Burkov

We report on exotic response properties in 3D time-reversal invariant Weyl semimetals with mirror symmetry. Despite having a vanishing anomalous Hall coefficient, we find that the momentum-space quadrupole moment formed by four Weyl nodes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-19 Oleg Dubinkin , F. J. Burnell , Taylor L. Hughes

Weyl semimetal with Weyl fermions at Fermi energy is one of the topological materials, and is a condensed-matter realization of the relativistic fermions. However, there are several crucial differences such as the shift of Fermi energy,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Hiroaki Ishizuka , Naoto Nagaosa

We show that Weyl semimetals exhibit a mixed axial-torsional anomaly in the presence of axial torsion, a concept exclusive of these materials with no known natural fundamental interpretation in terms of the geometry of spacetime. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-13 Yago Ferreiros , Yaron Kedem , Emil J. Bergholtz , Jens H. Bardarson