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We show that under the effect of an external electric field and a gradient of chemical potential, a topological electric current can be induced in Weyl semimetals without inversion and mirror symmetries. We derive analytic expressions for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 R. Flores-Calderón , A. Martín-Ruiz

Weyl semimetals are a new paradigmatic topological phase of matter featuring a gapless spectrum. One of its most distinctive features is the presence of Fermi arc surface states. Here, we report on atomistic simulations of the dc…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-20 Jose Chesta Lopez , Luis E. F. Foa Torres , Alvaro S. Nunez

Weyl semimetal is a new topological state of matter, characterized by the presence of nondegenerate band-touching nodes, separated in momentum space, in its bandstructure. Here we discuss a particular realization of a Weyl semimetal: a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 A. A. Zyuzin , Si Wu , A. A. Burkov

Weyl semimetals are gapless quasi-topological materials with a set of isolated nodal points forming their Fermi surface. They manifest their quasi-topological character in a series of topological electromagnetic responses including the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-05 Hassan Shapourian , Taylor L. Hughes

We experimentally compare two types of interface structures with magnetic and non-magnetic Weyl semimetals. They are the junctions between a gold normal layer and magnetic Weyl semimetal Ti$_2$MnAl, and a ferromagnetic nickel layer and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-28 V. D. Esin , D. N. Borisenko , N. N. Kolesnikov , E. V. Deviatov

A Weyl semimetal denotes an electronic phase of solids in which two bands cross linearly. In this paper we study the effect of a spatially correlated disorder on such a phase. Using a renormalization group analysis, we show that in three…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-06 Thibaud Louvet , David Carpentier , Andrei A. Fedorenko

Weyl semimetal may be thought of as a gapless topological phase protected by the chiral anomaly, where the symmetries involved in the anomaly are the $U(1)$ charge conservation and the crystal translational symmetry. The absence of a band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-09 Chong Wang , L. Gioia , A. A. Burkov

Topological Dirac and Weyl semimetals have an energy spectrum that hosts Weyl nodes appearing in pairs of opposite chirality. Topological stability is ensured when the nodes are separated in momentum space and unique spectral and transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-13 Adolfo G. Grushin , Jorn W. F. Venderbos , Ashvin Vishwanath , Roni Ilan

We review recent theoretical and experimental developments in magnetic Weyl semimetals, focusing on the electromagnetic responses emerging from the interplay of their electronic band topology and magnetism. We begin by introducing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Akihiro Ozawa , Yasufumi Araki , Koji Kobayashi , Kentaro Nomura

A Weyl semimetal pierced by a screw dislocation accommodates one-dimensional (1D) chiral states along the corresponding dislocation line. As these states propagate in a particular direction determined by their chirality, a persistent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Kentaro Kodama , Yositake Takane

The nonlocal response of chiral electron fluid in a semi-infinite Weyl semimetal slab with the electric current source and drain attached to its surface is studied by using the consistent hydrodynamic framework. It is found that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-24 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , P. O. Sukhachov

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

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

A Weyl semimetal with a pair of Weyl nodes accommodates chiral states on its flat surface if the Weyl nodes are projected onto two different points in the corresponding surface Brillouin zone. These surface states are collectively referred…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-18 Yositake Takane

We propose a realization of the Weyl semimetal phase that is invariant under time reversal and occurs due to broken inversion symmetry. We consider both a simple superlattice model and a more realistic tight-binding model describing an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-28 Gábor B. Halász , Leon Balents

Weyl nodal loop semimetals are gapless topological phases that, unlike their insulator counterparts, may be unstable to small perturbations that respect their topology-protecting symmetries. Here, we analyze a clean system perturbed by…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-02-07 João S. Silva , Miguel Gonçalves , Eduardo V. Castro , Pedro Ribeiro , Miguel A. N. Araújo

Weyl semimetals are three-dimensional topological states of matter, in a sense that they host paired monopoles and antimonopoles of Berry curvature in momentum space, leading to the chiral anomaly. The chiral anomaly has long been believed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Hai-Zhou Lu , Song-Bo Zhang , Shun-Qing Shen

Despite the tremendous interest raised by the recent realization of magnetic Weyl semimetals and the observation of giant anomalous Hall signals, most of the theories used to interpret experimental data overlook the influence of magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Konstantinos Sourounis , Aurélien Manchon

We study superconductivity in a Weyl semimetal with broken time-reversal symmetry and stabilized by a point-group symmetry. The resulting superconducting phase is characterized by topologically protected bulk nodes and surface states with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Vasudha Shivamoggi , Matthew J. Gilbert

Multi-Weyl semimetals are a kind of topological phase of matter with discrete Weyl nodes characterized by multiple monopole charges, in which the chiral anomaly, the anomalous nonconservation of an axial current, occurs in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-09 Ze-Min Huang , Jianhui Zhou , Shun-Qing Shen