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Weyl semimetals are gapless three-dimensional topological materials where two bands touch at even number of points in the Brillouin zone. In this work we study a zincblende lattice model realizing a time-reversal invariant Weyl semimetal.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-10 Teemu Ojanen

Topological semimetals are some of the topological phases of matter most intensely-studied experimentally. The Weyl semimetal phase, in particular, has garned tremendous, sustained interest given fascinating signatures such as the Fermi arc…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Adipta Pal , Ashley M. Cook

In this work, we explore the possible emergence of superconducting phases in a multi-Weyl semimetal. In particular, we show that the presence of a pair of Weyl nodes with chirality $|\nu| \ge 1$ leads to an effective description of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-07 Alonso Tapia , Enrique Muñoz

We study dynamical mass generation and the resultant helical spin orders in topological Dirac and Weyl semimetals, including the edge states of quantum spin Hall insulators, the surface states of weak topological insulators, and the bulk…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-08-14 Xiao-Qi Sun , Shou-Cheng Zhang , Zhong Wang

The quantum behaviour of electrons in materials lays the foundation for modern electronic and information technology. Quantum materials with novel electronic and optical properties have been proposed as the next frontier, but much remains…

We provide a systematic study of non-Hermitian topologically charged systems. Starting from a Hermitian Hamiltonian supporting Weyl points with arbitrary topological charge, adding a non-Hermitian perturbation transforms the Weyl points to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-21 Alexander Cerjan , Meng Xiao , Luqi Yuan , Shanhui Fan

The hallmark of Weyl semimetals is the existence of open constant-energy contours on their surface -- the so-called Fermi arcs -- connecting Weyl points. Here, we show that for time-reversal symmetric realizations of Weyl semimetals these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-21 Alexander Lau , Klaus Koepernik , Jeroen van den Brink , Carmine Ortix

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

Hexagonal warping (HW) in three-dimensional topological insulators is, by now, well-known. We show that non-Hermitian (NH) loss/gain can generate an exceptional HW effect in double Weyl-semimetals (DWSM). This unique feature of DWSMs has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 Debashree Chowdhury , Ayan Banerjee , Awadhesh Narayan

We show that compounds in a family that possess time-reversal symmetry and share a non-centrosymmetric cubic structure with the space group F-43m (No. 216) host robust ideal Weyl semi-metal fermions with desirable topologically protected…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-13 R. Wang , J. Z. Zhao , Y. J. Jin , W. P. Xu , L. -Y. Gan , X. Z. Wu , H. Xu , S. Y. Tong

We investigate novel features of three dimensional non-Hermitian Weyl semimetals, paying special attention to its unconventional bulk-boundary correspondence. We use the non-Bloch Chern numbers as the tool to obtain the topological phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-05 Xiaosen Yang , Yang Cao , Yunjia Zhai

Three-dimensional (3D) topological semimetals represent a new class of topological matters. The study of this family of materials has been at the frontiers of condensed matter physics, and many breakthroughs have been made. Several…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-10-03 Jin Hu , Su-Yang Xu , Ni Ni , Zhiqiang Mao

Weyl semimetals are a class of materials that can be regarded as three-dimensional analogs of graphene breaking time reversal or inversion symmetry. Electrons in a Weyl semimetal behave as Weyl fermions, which have many exotic properties,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-08-05 B. Q. Lv , H. M. Weng , B. B. Fu , X. P. Wang , H. Miao , J. Ma , P. Richard , X. C. Huang , L. X. Zhao , G. F. Chen , Z. Fang , X. Dai , T. Qian , H. Ding

Topological Weyl semimetal (TWS) is a metal, where low energy excitations behave like Weyl fermions of high-energy physics. It was recently shown that due to the lower symmetry of condensed matter systems, they can realize two distinct…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-18 Wenhan Zhang , Quansheng Wu , Lunyong Zhang , Sang-Wook Cheong , Alexey A. Soluyanov , Weida Wu

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…

Recent breakthrough in search for the analogs of fundamental particles in condensed matter systems lead to experimental realizations of 3D Dirac and Weyl semimetals. Weyl state can be hosted either by non-centrosymmetric or magnetic…

Using a systematic relation between topological gapless phases in three dimensions and topological gapped phases in two dimensions, we identify four types of higher-order topological semimetals or nodal superconductors (HOTS), hosting (i)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-07 Sophia Simon , Max Geier , Piet W. Brouwer

Recent interest in topological semimetals has lead to the proposal of many new topological phases that can be realized in real materials. Next to Dirac and Weyl systems, these include more exotic phases based on manifold band degeneracies…

Recently, higher-order topological matter and 3D quantum Hall effects have attracted great attention. The Fermi-arc mechanism of the 3D quantum Hall effect proposed in Weyl semimetals is characterized by the one-sided hinge states, which do…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Rui Chen , Tianyu Liu , C. M. Wang , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

The Fermi arcs of topological surface states in the three-dimensional multi-Weyl semimetals on surfaces by a continuum model are investigated systematically. We calculated analytically the energy spectra and wave function for bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-03 Y. C. Liu , V. Wang , J. B. Lin , J. Nara