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Chiral zeroth Landau levels are topologically protected bulk states that give rise to chiral anomaly. Previous discussions on such chiral Landau levels are based on three-dimensional Weyl degeneracies. Their realizations using…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-10 Hongwei Jia , Mudi Wang , Shaojie Ma , Ruo-Yang Zhang , Jing Hu , C. T. Chan

Nonlinear chiral photonics explores nonlinear response of chiral structures, and it offers a pathway to novel optical functionalities not accessible through linear or achiral systems. Here we present the first application of nanostructured…

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

We study a two-dimensional fermionic square lattice, which supports the existence of two-dimensional Weyl semimetal, quantum anomalous Hall effect, and $2\pi$-flux topological semimetal in different parameter ranges. We show that the band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-27 Jing-Min Hou

Magnetotransport and magneto-optics experiments offer a very powerful probe for studying the physical properties of materials. Here, we investigate the second-order nonlinear magnetoconductivity of tilted type-I Weyl and multi-Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Sunit Das , Kamal Das , Amit Agarwal

Topological semimetals, such as Dirac, Weyl, or line-node semimetals, are gapless states of matter characterized by their nodal band structures and surface states. In this work, we consider layered (topologically trivial) insulating systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-12 Saavanth Velury , Taylor L. Hughes

We review the recent, mainly theoretical, progress in the study of topological nodal line semimetals in three dimensions. In these semimetals, the conduction and the valence bands cross each other along a one-dimensional curve in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-10 Chen Fang , Hongming Weng , Xi Dai , Zhong Fang

Magnetic topological materials have recently drawn significant importance and interest, due to their topologically nontrivial electronic structure within spontaneous magnetic moments and band inversion. Based on first-principles…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-20 R. Wang , Y. J. Jin , J. Z. Zhao , Z. J. Chen , Y. J. Zhao , H. Xu

In condensed matter systems, chiral topological nodes are robust band crossing points in momentum space that carry nonzero Chern numbers. The chirality is manifested by the presence of surface Fermi arcs connecting the projections of nodes…

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

It was recently shown that nonsymmorphic space group symmetries can protect novel surface states with hourglass-like dispersions. In this paper, we show that such dispersions can also appear in the bulk of three-dimensional (3D) systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-10 Luyang Wang , Shao-Kai Jian , Hong Yao

Weyl points, serving as monopoles in the momentum space and laying the foundation of topological gapless phases, have recently been experimentally demonstrated in various physical systems. However, none of the observed Weyl degeneracies are…

A two-dimensional (2D) Weyl semimetal featuring a spin-polarized linear band dispersion and a nodal Fermi surface is a new topological phase of matter. It is a solid-state realization of Weyl fermions in an intrinsic 2D system. The…

Double-Weyl fermions, as novel topological states of matter, have been mostly discussed in nonmagnetic materials. Here, based on density-functional theory and symmetry analysis, we propose the realization of fully spin-polarized double-Weyl…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-30 Lei Jin , Xiaoming Zhang , Ying Liu , Xuefang Dai , Liying Wang , Guodong Liu

Double Weyl nodes are topologically protected band crossing points which carry chiral charge $\pm2$. They are stabilized by $C_4$ point group symmetry and are predicted to occur in $\mathrm{SrSi_2}$ or $\mathrm{HgCr_{2}Se_{4}}$. We study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Björn Sbierski , Maximilian Trescher , Emil J. Bergholtz , Piet W. Brouwer

Recently, magnetic topological semimetals have received a lot of attention due to their potential applications in the field of spintronics. By using first-principles calculations, we propose that two ferromagnetic spinel materials of X2MnO4…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-13 R. R. Kang , S. D. He , P. Zhou , L. Z. Sun

Using both an effective three-band model and {\it ab initio} calculations, we have investigated various topological features in the cubic ferromagnetic $5d^{1,2}$ systems showing large spin-orbit coupling (SOC): Ba$_2$NaOsO$_6$,…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-29 Young-Joon Song , K. -W. Lee

Using first--principles density functional calculations, we systematically investigate electronic structures and topological properties of InNbX2 (X=S, Se). In the absence of spin--orbit coupling (SOC), both compounds show nodal lines…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-03 Yongping Du , Xiangyan Bo , Di Wang , Er-jun Kan , Chun-Gang Duan , Sergey Y. Savrasov , Xiangang Wan

Nodal line semimetals are characterized by symmetry-protected band crossing lines and are expected to exhibit nontrivial electronic properties. Connections of the multiple nodal lines, resulting in nodal nets, chains, or links, are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Ding-Fu Shao , Shu-Hui Zhang , Xiaoqian Dang , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

Following the discovery of topological insulators (TIs), topological Dirac/Weyl semimetal has attracted much recent interest. A prevailing mechanism for the formation of Weyl points is by breaking time-reversal symmetry (TRS) or spatial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-23 Yinong Zhou , Kyung-Hwan Jin , Huaqing Huang , Zhengfei Wang , Feng Liu