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We investigate magnetotransport across an interface between two Weyl semimetals (finite in both directions) whose Weyl nodes project onto two different surfaces which are twisted with respect to each other before being coupled. This gives…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Nirnoy Basak , Sumathi Rao , Faruk Abdulla

The chiral anomaly is the predicted break down of chiral symmetry in a Weyl semimetal with monopoles of opposite chirality when an electric field parallel to a magnetic field is applied. It occurs because of charge pumping from a positive…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-09 Dung Vu , Wenjuan Zhang , Cüneyt Şahin , Michael E. Flatté , Nandini Trivedi , Joseph P. Heremans

The transport properties and electron states in cylinder nanowires of Dirac and Weyl semimetals are studied paying special attention to the structure and properties of the surface Fermi arcs. The latter make the electric charge and current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-24 P. O. Sukhachov , M. V. Rakov , O. M. Teslyk , E. V. Gorbar

We investigate the low-energy scaling behavior of an interacting 3D Weyl semimetal in the presence of disorder. In order to achieve a renormalization group analysis of the theory, we focus on the effects of a short-ranged-correlated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-16 J. Gonzalez

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 experimentally study electron transport between two superconducting indium leads, coupled to a single WTe$_2$ crystal, which is a three-dimensional Weyl semimetal. We demonstrate Josephson current in long 5~$\mu$m In-WTe$_2$-In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-21 O. O. Shvetsov , A. Kononov , A. V. Timonina , N. N. Kolesnikov , E. V. Deviatov

The Weyl semimetal surface is modeled by applying the Bogolyubov boundary conditions, in which the quasiparticles have an infinite Dirac mass outside the semimetal. For a Weyl semimetal shaped as a slab of finite thickness, we derive an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-19 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , P. O. Sukhachov

We study the static electric current due to the Chiral Magnetic Effect in samples of Weyl semimetals with slab geometry, where the magnetic field is parallel to the boundaries of the slab. We use the Wilson-Dirac Hamiltonian as a simplest…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-28 S. N. Valgushev , M. Puhr , P. V. Buividovich

We calculate the Josephson current density j(phi) for a Weyl superconductor--normal-metal--superconductor junction for which the outer terminals are superconducting Weyl metals and the normal layer is a Weyl (semi)metal. We describe the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-24 Kevin A. Madsen , Emil J. Bergholtz , Piet W. Brouwer

By introducing a superconducting gap in Weyl- or Dirac semi-metals, the superconducting state inherits the non-trivial topology of their electronic structure. As a result, Weyl superconductors are expected to host exotic phenomena such as…

Negative longitudinal magnetoresistance, in the presence of an external magnetic field parallel to the direction of an applied current, has recently been experimentally verified in Weyl semimetals and topological insulators in the bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 S. Nandy , A. Taraphder , Sumanta Tewari

We study the AC electrical conductivity at zero temperature in a holographic model for a Weyl semimetal. At small frequencies we observe a linear dependence in the frequency. The model shows a quantum phase transition between a topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-26 Gianluca Grignani , Andrea Marini , Francisco Pena-Benitez , Stefano Speziali

Magnetic Weyl semimetal (MWS) is a unique topological state with open surface Fermi arc states and other exotic transport phenomena. However, most reported MWSs show multiple pairs of Weyl points and complicated Fermi surfaces, which…

We study the transport properties and superconducting proximity effect in NSN junctions formed by a time-reversal symmetry broken Weyl semimetal (WSM) in proximity to an $s$-wave superconductor. We find that the differential conductance and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-07-02 Daniel Breunig , Song-Bo Zhang , Martin Stehno , Björn Trauzettel

We propose that the topological semimetal features can co-exist with ferromagnetic ground state in vanadium-phosphorous-oxide $\beta$-V$_2$OPO$_4$ compound from first-principles calculations. In this magnetic system with inversion symmetry,…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-08 Y. J. Jin , R. Wang , J. Z. Zhao , Z. J. Chen , Y. J. Zhao , H. Xu

Inducing superconductivity in systems with unconventional band structures is a promising approach for realising unconventional superconductivity. Of particular interest are single interface or Josephson Junction architectures involving Weyl…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-02-12 Robert Dawson , Vivek Aji

It has been suggested recently, based on subtle field-theoretical considerations, that the electromagnetic response of Weyl semimetals and the closely related Weyl insulators can be characterized by an axion term E.B with space and time…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-11 M. M. Vazifeh , M. Franz

Quantum materials governed by emergent topological fermions have become a cornerstone of physics. Dirac fermions in graphene form the basis for moir\'e quantum matter, and Dirac fermions in magnetic topological insulators enabled the…

We study the chiral vortical conductivity in a holographic Weyl semimetal model, which describes a topological phase transition from the strongly coupled topologically nontrivial phase to a trivial phase. We focus on the temperature…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-16 Xuanting Ji , Yan Liu , Xin-Meng Wu

Three-dimensional Weyl and Dirac semimetals can support a chiral-symmetry-breaking, fully gapped, charge-density-wave order even for sufficiently weak repulsive electron-electron interactions, when placed in strong magnetic fields. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-25 Bitan Roy , Jay D. Sau