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One of the fundamental facts of condensed matter physics is that sufficient amount of disorder always turns a Fermi liquid metal into an Anderson insulator: a compressible, but non-conducting phase of matter. Recently, topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-17 Jinmin Yi , A. A. Burkov

We develop a topological theory for disordered Weyl semimetals in the framework of gauge invariance of replica formalism and boundary-bulk correspondence of Chern insulators. An anisotropic topological $\theta$-term is analytically derived…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-21 Y. X. Zhao , Z. D. Wang

Motivated by the exciting prediction of Multi-Weyl topological semimetals that are stabilized by point group symmetries [Phys. Rev. Lett. 108 (2012) 266802], we study tunneling phenomena for a class of anisotropic Multi-Weyl semimetals. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-04 Ahmed Bouhlal , Adel Abbout , Ahmed Jellal , Hocine Bahlouli , Michael Vogl

As a function of the disorder strength in a mesoscopic system, the electron dynamics crosses over from the ballistic through the diffusive towards the localized regime. The ballistic and the localized situation correspond to integrable or…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Dietmar Weinmann , Sigmund Kohler , Gert-Ludwig Ingold , Peter Hänggi

Topological semimetals, particularly Weyl semimetals (WSMs), are crucial platforms for exploring emergent quantum phenomena due to their unique electronic structures and potential to transition into various topological phases. In this…

The search for topological systems has recently broadened to include random substitutional alloys, which lack the specific crystalline symmetries that protect topological phases, raising the question whether topological properties can be…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-19 Zhi Wang , Qihang Liu , Alex Zunger

Weyl fermions are one of the simplest objects that link ideas in geometry and topology to highenergy physics and condensed matter physics. Although the existence of Weyl fermions as elementary particles remains dubious, there is mounting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-05 Azaz Ahmad , Gautham Varma K. , Gargee Sharma

Antiferromagnets (AFMs) with anomalous quantum responses have lead to new progress for the understanding of their magnetic and electronic structures from symmetry and topology points of view. Two typical topological states are the collinear…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-14 Jie Zhan , Jiangxu Li , Wujun Shi , Xing-Qiu Chen , Yan Sun

Weyl semimetals and nodal line semimetals are characterized by linear band touching at zero-dimensional points and one-dimensional lines, respectively. We predict that a circularly polarized light drives nodal line semimetals into Weyl…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-19 Zhongbo Yan , Zhong Wang

Two-dimensional Weyl superconductor is the most elusive member of a group of materials with Weyl fermions as low-energy excitations. Here, we propose to realize this state in a heterostructure consisting of thin films of half-metal and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-02-24 Lei Hao , C. S. Ting

We investigate an unconventional topological phase transition that occurs in quantum spin Hall (QSH) systems when applying an external in-plane magnetic field. We show that this transition between QSH and trivial insulator phases is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-02 Fernando Dominguez , Benedikt Scharf , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

We study the effects of quenched one-dimensional disorder on the holographic Weyl semimetal quantum phase transition (QPT), with a particular focus on the quantum critical region. We observe the smearing of the sharp QPT linked to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-06 Martin Ammon , Matteo Baggioli , Amadeo Jiménez-Alba , Sebastian Moeckel

We give a bulk-hinge correspondence for higher-order topological phases protected by rotoinversion $C_{4}\mathcal{I}$ symmetry in magnetic systems. Our approach allows us to show the emergence of the chiral hinge modes only from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-16 Yutaro Tanaka , Ryo Takahashi , Ryo Okugawa , Shuichi Murakami

We clarify novel forms of scaling functions of conductance, critical conductance distribution and localization length in a disorder-driven quantum phase transition between band insulator and Weyl semimetal phases. Quantum criticality of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-11 Xunlong Luo , Tomi Ohtsuki , Ryuichi Shindou

Magnetic topological systems based on MnBi2Te4 have recently attracted significant attention due to their rich interplay between magnetism and topological electronic states. In this work, using density functional theory (DFT), we…

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

The existence of $1/2$ modes in the entanglement spectrum (ES) has been shown to be a powerful quantum-informative signature of boundary states of gapped topological phases of matter, e.g., topological insulators and topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-09 Yao Zhou , Peng Ye

We propose and investigate numerically a one-dimensional model which exhibits a non-Anderson disorder-driven transition. Such transitions have recently been attracting a great deal of attention in the context of Weyl semimetals,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 Björn Sbierski , Sergey Syzranov

Weyl semimetals (WSMs) constitute a 3D phase with linearly-dispersing Weyl excitations at low energy, which lead to unusual electrodynamic responses and open Fermi arcs on boundaries. We derive a simple criterion to identify and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-28 William Witczak-Krempa , Michael Knap , Dmitry Abanin

The interplay of electronic band structures and electron-electron interactions is known to brew new phases in condensed matter. In this paper, we investigate thermodynamic phases and corresponding electronic structures of the Weyl semimetal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-22 Liang-Jun Zhai , Po-Hao Chou , Chung-Yu Mou
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