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Weyl superconductivity or superfluidity, a fascinating topological state of matter, features novel phenomena such as emergent Weyl fermionic excitations and anomalies. Here we report that an anisotropic Weyl superfluid state can arise as a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-01-30 Bo Liu , Xiaopeng Li , Lan Yin , W. Vincent Liu

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 study the emergence of topological superconductivity in a two-dimensional (2D) Weyl system, composed of stacked Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chains. A previous analysis of the model showed that the addition of an attractive Hubbard…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-18 Peter Rosenberg , Efstratios Manousakis

We construct a holographic model with Weyl corrections in five dimensional spacetime. In particular, we introduce a coupling term between the axion fields and the Maxwell field such that the momentum is relaxed even in the probe limit in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-16 Yi Ling , Xiangrong Zheng

We investigate the tunneling conductance of Weyl semimetal with tilted energy dispersion by considering electron transmission through a p-n-p junction with one-dimensional electric and magnetic barrier. In the presence of both electric and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-21 Can Yesilyurt , Seng Ghee Tan , Gengchiau Liang , Mansoor B. A. Jalil

A generic semiclassical superconducting nanostructure connected to multiple superconducting terminals hosts a quasi-continuous spectrum of Andreev states. The spectrum is sensitive to the superconducting phases of the terminals. It can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Janis Erdmanis , Arpad Lukacs , Yuli Nazarov

As an analogy to the Weyl point in k-space, we search for energy levels which close at a single point as a function of a three dimensional parameter space. Such points are topologically protected in the sense that any perturbation which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 John P. T. Stenger , David Pekker

We investigate electronic transport across a junction between a Weyl semimetal (WSM) and a layered Chern insulator (LCI) in the presence of a magnetic field perpendicular to the interface. The topological mismatch between the gapless Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Nirnoy Basak , Sumathi Rao , Faruk Abdulla

Topological semimetals are predicted to exhibit unconventional electrodynamics, but a central experimental challenge is singling out the contributions from the topological bands. TaAs is the prototypical example, where 24 Weyl points and 8…

The discovery of Weyl semimetals opens the door for searching topological semimetals in physical science. The Weyl points are generally recognized as conventional, quadratic, spin-1, and those of high topological charges. Here we report the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Li Luo , Weiyin Deng , Yating Yang , Mou Yan , Jiuyang Lu , Xueqin Huang , Zhengyou Liu

We explore the thermoelectric transport properties of a coexistence topological semimetal, characterized by the presence of both a pair of Weyl points and a nodal ring in the quantum limit. This system gives rise to complex Landau bands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 L. W. Guo , C. M. Wang

We propose a general method to realize and calculate the transmission in a Weyl semimetal (WSM) heterostructure by employing a periodic three-dimensional topoelectrical (TE) circuit network. By drawing the analogy between inductor-capacitor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-13 S M Rafi-Ul-Islam , Zhuo Bin Siu , Mansoor B. A. Jalil

The search for artificial structure with tunable topological properties is an interesting research direction of today's topological physics. Here, we introduce a scheme to realize `topological semimetal states' with a three-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-11 Kaifa Luo , Rui Yu , Hongming Weng

A heterostructure consisting of a magnetic Weyl semimetal and a conventional superconductor exhibits an equilibrium current parallel to the superconductor interface and perpendicular to the magnetization. Analyzing a minimal model, which as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Kevin A. Madsen , Piet W. Brouwer , Maxim Breitkreiz

In this paper, we study the semiclassical behavior of Bloch electrons in the presence of Weyl nodes, which are singular points in the band structure of certain materials. We carry out asymptotic analysis and present a rigorous derivation of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Jianfeng Lu , Changhe Yang , Zhennan Zhou

We present a feasible protocol to mimic topological Weyl semimetal phase in a small one-dimensional circuit-QED lattice. By modulating the photon hopping rates and on-site photon frequencies in parametric spaces, we demonstrate that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-20 Feng Mei , Zheng-Yuan Xue , Dan-Wei Zhang , Lin Tian , Chaohong Lee , Shi-Liang Zhu

Weyl fermions1 do not appear in nature as elementary particles, but they are now found to exist as nodal points in the band structure of electronic and classical wave crystals. Novel phenomena such as Fermi arcs and chiral anomaly have…

Optics · Physics 2016-10-17 Qiang Wang , Meng Xiao , Hui Liu , Xiangang Wan , Shining Zhu , C. T. Chan

It is necessary to study the properties of Weyl semimetal nanostructures for potential applications in nanoelectronics. Here we study the Weyl semimetal quantum dot with a most simple model Hamiltonian with only two Weyl points. We focus on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-13 Zhang Shu-feng , Zhang Chang-wen , Wang Pei-ji , Sun Qing-feng

We theoretically show that IV-VI semiconducting compounds with low-temperature rhombohedral crystal structure represent a new potential platform for topological semimetals. By means of minimal $\mathbf{k}\cdot\mathbf{p}$ models we find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-09 Alexander Lau , Carmine Ortix

We study the physics of the superconducting variant of Weyl semimetals, which may be realized in multilayer structures comprising topological insulators and superconductors. We show how superconductivity can split each Weyl node into two.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-12 Tobias Meng , Leon Balents