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Weyl semimetals host topologically protected surface states, the so-called Fermi arcs, that have a penetration depth into the bulk that depends on surface-momentum, and diverges at the Weyl points. It has recently been observed in PtBi$_2$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-12 Mattia Trama , Viktor Könye , Ion Cosma Fulga , Jeroen van den Brink

We develop the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian formalism to describe Weyl fermions of type III and IV. The spectrum of Hamiltonian has an unusual type of anisotropy. Namely, the hermiticity of Hamiltonian strongly depends on the direction in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-24 Zaur Z. Alisultanov , Edvin G. Idrisov

Non-Hermitian topological phases, which exhibit unique features such as skin effect and exceptional points originated from nontrivial band topologies in complex plane, have attracted enormous attention in condensed-matter physics and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Yejian Hu , Jien Wu , Peidong Ye , Weiyin Deng , Jiuyang Lu , Xueqin Huang , Ziyu Wang , Manzhu Ke , Zhengyou Liu

Weyl semimetals are topological materials with protected Weyl nodes in the band structure. In these materials the surface states form open curves at the Fermi surface, Fermi arcs in Weyl semimetals and drumhead states of nodal-line…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Enrique Benito-Matías , Rafael A. Molina

The electron-nuclear hyperfine interaction shows up in a variety of phenomena including e.g. NMR studies of correlated states and spin decoherence effects in quantum dots. Here we focus on the hyperfine coupling and the NMR spin relaxation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Zoltán Okvátovity , Ferenc Simon , Balázs Dóra

Recently, two-dimensional layered electrides have emerged as a new class of materials which possess anionic electron layers in the interstitial spaces between cationic layers. Here, based on first-principles calculations, we discover a…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-04 Shuyuan Liu , Chongze Wang , Liangliang Liu , Jin-Ho Choi , Hyun-Jung Kim , Yu Jia , Chul Hong Park , Jun-Hyung Cho

Numerous efforts have been devoted to reveal exotic semimetallic phases with topologically non-trivial bulk and/or surface states in materials with strong spin-orbit coupling. In particular, semimetals with nodal line Fermi surface (FS)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-04-22 Yige Chen , Heung-Sik Kim , Hae-Young Kee

Nonsymmoprhic symmetries, such as screw rotations or glide reflections, can enforce band crossings within high-symmetry lines or planes of the Brillouin zone. When these band degeneracies are close to the Fermi energy, they can give rise to…

The realization of a minimal Weyl semimetal (WSM) hosting a single pair of Weyl points (WPs) has thus far been restricted to magnetic systems, since time-reversal symmetry generally enforces a minimum of four WPs in nonmagnetic materials.…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-27 Hui-Jing Zheng , Yan Gao , Yanfeng Ge , Yong Liu , Zhong-Yi Lu

In magnetic pyrochlore materials, the interplay of spin-orbit coupling, electronic correlations, and geometrical frustration gives rise to exotic quantum phases, including topological semimetals and spin ice. While these phases have been…

Weyl semimetal (WSM) as a new type of quantum state of matter hosting low energy relativistic quasiparticles, has attracted significant attention for both scientific community and potential quantum device applications. Here, we report a…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-06 Weizheng Cao , Qi Wang , Cuiying Pei , Lingling Gao , Yi Zhao , Changhua Li , Na Yu , Jinghui Wang , Yulin Chen , Jun Li , Yanpeng Qi

The mathematical foundation of quantum mechanics is built on linear algebra, while the application of nonlinear operators can lead to outstanding discoveries under some circumstances. In this Letter, we propose a model of square-root…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-10-12 Lingling Song , Huanhuan Yang , Yunshan Cao , Peng Yan

Weyl fermions are expected to exhibit exotic physical properties such as the chiral anomaly, large negative magnetoresistance or Fermi arcs. Recently a new platform to realize these fermions has been introduced based on the appearance of a…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-17 M. G. Vergniory , L. Elcoro , F. Orlandi , B. Balke , Y. -H. Chan , J. Nuss , A. P. Schnyder , L. M. Schoop

Fermi arc surface states, the manifestation of the bulk-edge correspondence in Weyl semimetals, have attracted much research interest. In contrast to the conventional Fermi loop, the disconnected Fermi arcs provide an exotic 2D system for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Xi-Rong Chen , Guangze Chen , Yue Zheng , Wei Chen , D. Y. Xing

Multi-Weyl semimetals(m-WSMS) are characterized by anisotropic non-linear energy dispersion along 2-D plane and a linear dispersion in orthogonal direction. They have topological charge J and are realized when two or multiple Weyl nodes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-22 Amit Gupta

The current understanding of the role of topology in non-Hermitian (NH) systems and its far-reaching physical consequences observable in a range of dissipative settings are reviewed. In particular, how the paramount and genuinely NH concept…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Emil J. Bergholtz , Jan Carl Budich , Flore K. Kunst

Weyl fermions are one of the simplest objects that link ideas in geometry and topology to highenergy physics and condensed matter physics. Although the existence of Weyl fermions as elementary particles remains dubious, there is mounting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-05 Azaz Ahmad , Gautham Varma K. , Gargee Sharma

We study the interplay of disorder and bandstructure topology in a Weyl semimetal with a tilted conical spectrum around the Weyl points. The spectrum of particles is given by the eigenvalues of a non-Hermitian matrix, which contains…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 A. A. Zyuzin , A. Yu. Zyuzin

NbP is a recently realized Weyl semimetal (WSM), hosting Weyl points through which conduction and valence bands cross linearly in the bulk and exotic Fermi arcs appear. However, the most intriguing transport phenomenon of a WSM, the chiral…

We report the discovery of a time-reversal symmetric Weyl semimetal obtained by modifying a model Hamiltonian describing the electronic properties of conventional alkali metals. The artificially generated Weyl semimetal features four…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-06-11 Joseba Goikoetxea , Jorge Bravo-Abad , Jaime Merino