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We propose a 3D topolectrical (TE) network that can be tuned to realize various higher-order topological gapless and chiral phases. We first study a higher-order Dirac semimetal phase that exhibits a hinge-like Fermi arc linking the Dirac…

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We compute the transmission coefficients and zero-temperature conductance for chiral quasiparticles propagating through various geometries, which consist of junctions of three-dimensional nodal-point semimetals. In the first scenario, we…

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Recently discovered Dirac semimetals (DSMs) with two Dirac nodes, such as Na$_{3}$Bi and Cd$_{2}$As$_{3}$, are regarded to carry the $\mathbb{Z}_{2}$ topological charge in addition to the chiral charge. Here, we study the Floquet phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-20 Xiao-Shi Li , Chen Wang , Ming-Xun Deng , Hou-Jian Duan , Pei-Hao Fu , Rui-Qiang Wang , L. Sheng , D. Y. Xing

Transport of charge and valley degrees of freedom coupled to order-parameter dynamics in magnetic Weyl semimetals is studied in the framework of nonequilibrium thermodynamics. In addition to the established valley-related transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-10 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Plasmons in van der Waals heterostructures comprised of graphene and related layered materials demonstrate deep subwavelength confinement and large propagation length. In this letter, we show that graphene-insulator-graphene tunnel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-14 Dmitry Svintsov , Zhanna Devizorova , Taiichi Otsuji , Victor Ryzhii

Topological insulators, in contrast to ordinary semiconductors, accompany protected metallic surfaces described by Dirac-type fermions. Here, we theoretically show another emergent two-dimensional metal embedded in the bulk insulator is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-30 Youhei Yamaji , Masatoshi Imada

The realization of graphene has provided a bench-top laboratory for quantum electrodynamics. The low-energy excitations of graphene are two-dimensional massless Dirac fermions with opposite chiralities at the $\pm$K valleys of the graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Liguo Ma , Raghav Chaturvedi , Phuong X. Nguyen , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Kin Fai Mak , Jie Shan

Ideal Weyl semimetals with all Weyl nodes exactly at the Fermi level and no coexisting trivial Fermi surfaces in the bulk, similar to graphene, could feature deep physics such as exotic transport phenomena induced by the chiral anomaly.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-06 Jiawei Ruan , Shao-Kai Jian , Hong Yao , Haijun Zhang , Shou-Cheng Zhang , Dingyu Xing

Three-dimensional (3D) topological Weyl semimetals (TWSs) represent a novel state of quantum matter with unusual electronic structures that resemble both a "3D graphene" and a topological insulator by possessing pairs of Weyl points…

Graphene/(Poly)vinyl alcohol (PVA) composite film with thickness $60 \mu m$ were synthesized by solidification of a PVA solution comprising of dispersed graphene nanosheets. The close proximity of the graphene sheets enables the fluctuation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-23 Sreemanta Mitra , Sourish Banerjee , Dipankar Chakravorty

Weyl semimetals are gapless three-dimensional (3D) phases whose bandstructures contain Weyl point (WP) degeneracies. WPs carry topological charge and can only be eliminated by mutual annihilation, a process that generates the various…

Recent discovery of both gapped and gapless topological phases in weakly correlated electron systems has introduced various relativistic particles and a number of exotic phenomena in condensed matter physics. The Weyl fermion is a prominent…

Stacking two graphene layers twisted by the 'magic angle' $\theta \approx 1.1^\circ$ generates flat energy bands, which in turn catalyzes various strongly correlated phenomena depending on filling and sample details. At charge neutrality,…

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We study the electronic properties of strongly spin-orbit coupled electrons on the elastic pyrochlore lattice. Akin to the Peierls transition in one-dimensional systems, the coupling of the lattice to the electronic degrees of freedom can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-16 Tomáš Bzdušek , Andreas Rüegg , Manfred Sigrist

We theoretically investigate 3D layered crystals of alternating graphene and hBN layers with different symmetries. Depending on the hopping parameters between the graphene layers, we find that these synthetic 3D materials can feature…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-26 Xi Chen , Klaus Zollner , Christian Moulsdale , Vladimir I. Fal'ko , Angelika Knothe

PrAlSi, a non-centrosymmetric ferromagnetic Weyl semimetal candidate with a Curie temperature of 17.8K, offers a unique platform for exploring the interplay of symmetry breaking and topological electronic structures. Up to now, the Weyl…

Weyl semimetals are conductors whose low-energy bulk excitations are Weyl fermions, whereas their surfaces possess metallic Fermi arc surface states. These Fermi arc surface states are protected by a topological invariant associated with…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-24 M. Zahid Hasan , Su-Yang Xu , Ilya Belopolski , Shin-Ming Huang

Three-dimensional topological gapless phases have attracted significant attention due to their unique electronic properties. A flagship example are Weyl semimetals, which require breaking time-reversal or inversion symmetry. In two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-16 Jose. D. Mella , Luis E. F. Foa Torres

We propose a directional switching effect in a metallic device. To such end we exploit a graphene-based device with a three-terminal geometry in the presence of a magnetic field. We show that unidirectional charge and valley currents can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 M. Berdakin , J. E. Barrios Vargas , L. E. F. Foa Torres

Higher-order Weyl semimetals are a family of recently predicted topological phases simultaneously showcasing unconventional properties derived from Weyl points, such as chiral anomaly, and multidimensional topological phenomena originating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-06 Yuang Pan , Chaoxi Cui , Qiaolu Chen , Fujia Chen , Li Zhang , Yudong Ren , Ning Han , Wenhao Li , Xinrui Li , Zhi-Ming Yu , Hongsheng Chen , Yihao Yang
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