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Topological Weyl semimetal (TWS), a new state of quantum matter, has sparked enormous research interest recently. Possessing unique Weyl fermions in the bulk and Fermi arcs on the surface, TWSs offer a rare platform for realizing many…

Recently, time-reversal symmetric but inversion broken systems with non-trivial Berry curvature in the presence of a built-in electric field have been proposed to exhibit a new type of linear Hall effect in ballistic regime, namely, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 Sanjib Kumar Das , Tanay Nag , Snehasish Nandy

Altermagnetic (AM) compounds have recently emerged as a promising platform for realizing unconventional quantum phases, enabled by their unique spin-split band structure at zero net magnetization. Here, we present a first-principles…

One of the main features of Weyl semimetals is the existence of Fermi arc surface states at their surface, which cannot be realized in pure two-dimensional systems in the absence of many-body interactions. Due to the gapless bulk of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Guangze Chen , Oded Zilberberg , Wei Chen

Magnetic topological semimetals, a novel state of quantum matter with nontrivial band topology, have emerged as a new frontier in physics and materials science. An external stimulus like temperature or magnetic field could be expected to…

The resistance of layered conductors with a multisheet Fermi surface (FS), in a high magnetic field, in the immediate vicinity of Lifshic's topological transition when the separate FS sheets are drown together by an external action,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-31 O. Galbova , V. Peschansky

We study dispersions of Fermi arcs in the Weyl semimetal phase by constructing a simple effective model. We calculate how the surface Fermi-arc dispersions for the top- and bottom surfaces merge into the bulk Dirac cones in the Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-30 Ryo Okugawa , Shuichi Murakami

The antiferromagnetic (AFM) semimetal YbMnSb$_2$ has recently been identified as a candidate topological material, driven by time-reversal symmetry breaking. Depending on the ordered arrangement of Mn spins below the N\'{e}el temperature,…

We report magnetotransport evidence of a hybridized Weyl semimetal (WSM) Fermi arc/topological insulator (TI) surface state at the interface of a ferromagnetic Mn$_{3+x}$Sn$_{1-x}$/Bi$_{0.85}$Sb$_{0.15}$ heterostructure. High target…

Topological semimetals exhibit band crossings near the Fermi energy, which are protected by the nontrivial topological character of the wave functions. In many cases, these topological band degeneracies give rise to exotic surface states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 Jonathan Zhang , Y. -H. Chan , Ching-Kai Chiu , Maia G. Vergniory , Leslie M. Schoop , Andreas P. Schnyder

Electron correlations amplify quantum fluctuations and, as such, they have been recognized as the origin of a rich landscape of quantum phases. Whether and how they lead to gapless topological states is an outstanding question, and a…

Riemann surfaces are geometric constructions in complex analysis that may represent multi-valued holomorphic functions using multiple sheets of the complex plane. We show that the energy dispersion of surface states in topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-10 Chen Fang , Ling Lu , Junwei Liu , Liang Fu

We consider the dimensional crossover in the topological matter, which involves the transformation of different types of topologically protected zeroes in the fermionic spectrum. In the considered case, the multiple Dirac (Fermi) point in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-06-24 Tero T. Heikkilä , G. E. Volovik

One of the hallmarks of Weyl semi-metals is the existence of unusual topological surface states known as 'Fermi arcs' [1-3]. The formation of these states is guaranteed by the existence of bulk Weyl points with opposite chirality. Tantalum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-23 Rajib Batabyal , Noam Morali , Nurit Avraham , Yan Sun , Marcus Schmidt , Claudia Felser , Ady Stern , Binghai Yan , Haim Beidenkopf

While recent advances in band theory and sample growth have expanded the series of extremely large magnetoresistance (XMR) semimetals in transition metal dipnictides $TmPn_2$ ($Tm$ = Ta, Nb; $Pn$ = P, As, Sb), the experimental study on…

We present unconventional nodal crossings in a two-dimensional (2D) collinear altermagnet, which are enforced by crystal symmetries to lock spin polarization and valley degrees of freedom. The altermagnetism generate nonrelativistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Zhang Meng-Han , Guo Xuan , Dao-Xin Yao

Antiferromagnets hosting real-space topological spin textures are promising platforms to model fundamental ultrafast phenomena and explore spintronics. However, to date, they have only been fabricated epitaxially on specific…

Featuring exotic quantum transport and surface states, topological semimetals can be classified into nodal-point, nodal-line, and nodal-surface semimetals according to the degeneracy and dimensionality of their nodes. However, a topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-18 Bing-Bing Luo , Ming-Jian Gao , Jun-Hong An

The recent discovery of antiferromagnetic (AFM) topological insulator (TI) MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ has triggered great research efforts on exploring novel magnetic topological physics. Based on first-principles calculations, we find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Jiaheng Li , Chong Wang , Zetao Zhang , Bing-Lin Gu , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

Topological phases arise from the elegant mathematical structures imposed by the interplay between symmetry and topology1-5. From gapped topological insulators to gapless semimetals, topological materials in both quantum and classical…