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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

Recognized as elementary particles in the standard model,Weyl fermions in condensed matter have received growing attention. However, most of the previously reportedWeyl semimetals exhibit rather complicated electronic structures that, in…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-12 Simin Nie , Gang Xu , Fritz B. Prinz , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We reconsider the problem of the anomalous Hall effect in ferromagnetic SrRuO$_3$, incorporating insights from the recently developed theory of Weyl semimetals. We demonstrate that SrRuO$_3$ possesses a large number of Weyl nodes, separated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-11 Y. Chen , D. L. Bergman , A. A. Burkov

Topological magnetic materials are expected to show multiple transport responses because of their unusual bulk electronic topology in momentum space and topological spin texture in real space. However, such multiple topological…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-05 Hang Li , Feng Zhou , Bei Ding , Jie Chen , Linxuan Song , Wenyun Yang , Yong-Chang Lau , Jinbo Yang , Yue Li , Yong Jiang , Wenhong Wang

Weyl semimetals are examples of a new class of topological states of matter which are gapless in the bulk with protected surface states. Their low energy sector is characterized by massless chiral fermions which are robust against…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-22 Michael Phillips , Vivek Aji

The concepts of Weyl fermions and topological semimetals emerging in three-dimensional momentum space are extensively explored owing to the vast variety of exotic properties that they give rise to. On the other hand, very little is known…

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

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

An exotic anomalous plasmon mode is found in strained Weyl semimetals utilizing the topological Landau Fermi liquid and chiral kinetic theories, in which quasiparticle interactions are modeled by long-range Coulomb and residual short-range…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-23 Shiva Heidari , Dimitrie Culcer , Reza Asgari

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

Topological phases of matter exhibit phase transitions between distinct topological classes. These phase transitions are exotic in that they do not fall within the traditional Ginzburg-Landau paradigm but are instead associated with changes…

Surface Fermi arcs are the most prominent manifestation of the topological nature of Weyl semimetals. In the presence of a static magnetic field oriented perpendicular to the sample surface, their existence leads to unique inter-surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-22 Yuval Baum , Erez Berg , S. A. Parameswaran , Ady Stern

Interplay between the topological surface states and bulk states gives rise to diverse exotic transport phenomena in topological materials. The recently proposed Weyl orbit in topological semimetals in the presence of magnetic field is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Xurui Zhang , Yeonghun Lee , Vivek Kakani , Kun Yang , Kyeongjae Cho , Xiaoyan Shi

We study a cylindrical plasmonic waveguide consisting of a magnetic Weyl semimetal embedded in a dielectric medium. We determine the dispersion relation of the surface plasmon polaritons and show how it depends on the plasma frequency, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Marco Peluso , Alessandro De Martino , Reinhold Egger , Francesco Buccheri

We investigate the topological properties of modified Dirac Hamiltonians with an altermagnetic mass term and reveal a novel mechanism for realizing altermagnetic Weyl semimetals. Unlike the conventional Wilson mass, the altermagnetic mass…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Yu-Hao Wan , Cheng-Ming Miao , Peng-Yi Liu , Qing-Feng Sun

We study the properties of the surface states in three-dimensional topological insulators in the presence of a ferromagnetic exchange field. We demonstrate that for layered materials like Bi$_2$Se$_3$ the surface states on the top surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-21 Tomi Paananen , Henning Gerber , Matthias Götte , Thomas Dahm

In this work, we propose a ferromagnetic Bi$_2$Se$_3$ as a candidate to hold the coexistence of Weyl- and nodal-line semimetal phases, which breaks the time reversal symmetry. We demonstrate that the type-I Weyl semimetal phase, type-I-,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 M. N. Chen , W. C. Chen , Yu Zhou

Recent experiments have established a type of nonsymmorphic symmetry protected nodal lines in the family of two-dimensional (2D) composition tunable materials NbSi$_x$Te$_2$. Here, we theoretically study the plasmonic properties of such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-03 Jin Cao , Hao-Ran Chang , Xiaolong Feng , Yugui Yao , Shengyuan A. Yang

In a topological semimetal with Dirac or Weyl points, the bulk edge correspondence principle predicts a gapless edge mode if the essential symmetry is still preserved at the surface. The detection of such topological surface state has been…

Fermi arc surface states, the manifestation of the bulk-edge correspondence in Weyl semimetals, have attracted much research interest. In contrast to the conventional Fermi loop, the disconnected Fermi arcs provide an exotic 2D system for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Xi-Rong Chen , Guangze Chen , Yue Zheng , Wei Chen , D. Y. Xing