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We analyze the structure of the surface states and Fermi arcs of Weyl semimetals as a function of the boundary conditions parameterizing the Hamiltonian self-adjoint extensions of a minimal model with two Weyl points. These boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Michele Burrello , Enore Guadagnini , Luca Lepori , Mihail Mintchev

Weyl semimetals are expected to open up new horizons in physics and materials science because they provide the first realization of Weyl fermions and exhibit protected Fermi arc surface states. However, they had been found to be extremely…

The precise control of Weyl physics in realistic materials oers a promising avenue to construct accessible topological quantum systems, and thus draw widespread attention in condensed-matter physics. Here, based on rst-principles…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-08-22 Ruoning Ji , Xianyong Ding , Fangyang Zhan , Xiaoliang Xiao , Jing Fan , Zhen Ning , Rui Wang

We consider interaction-induced broken symmetry states of two Weyl semimetal surfaces with multiple Fermi-arc (FA) states. In the presence of inter- and intra-surface Coulomb interactions, multiple broken symmetries may emerge which coexist…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-10 Ritajit Kundu , H. A. Fertig , Arijit Kundu

In paper [1] (Avotina et al. Phys. Rev. B,74, 085411 (2006)) the effect of Fermi surface anisotropy to the conductance of a tunnel point contact, in the vicinity of which a single point-like defect is situated, has been investigated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ye. S. Avotina , Yu. A. Kolesnichenko , S. B. Roobol , J. M. van Ruitenbeek

We study the electromagnetic properties of Weyl semimetals with strong interactions. Focusing on a single Weyl cone in the band structure, we induce strong interactions by coupling the Weyl fermion with a tunable coupling constant $g_f$ to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-11 V. P. J. Jacobs , Panagiotis Betzios , Umut Gursoy , H. T. C. Stoof

Realizing ideal Weyl semimetal state with a single pair of Weyl points has been a long-sought goal in the field of topological semimetals. Here, we reveal such a state in the Cr-based half-Heusler compounds XCrTe (X=K, Rb). We show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Hongshuang Liu , Jin Cao , Zeying Zhang , Jiashuo Liang , Liying Wang , Shengyuan A. Yang

For a Weyl semimetal (WSM) in a magnetic field, a semiclassical description of the Fermi-arc surface state dynamics is usually employed for explaining various unconventional magnetotransport phenomena, e.g., Weyl orbits, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-02 Tim Bauer , Francesco Buccheri , Alessandro De Martino , Reinhold Egger

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…

The topological nature of Weyl semimetals (WSMs) is corroborated by the presence of chiral surface states, which connect the projections of the bulk Weyl points by Fermi arcs (FAs). We study a bilayer structure realized by introducing a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Paolo Michetti , Carsten Timm

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 study the current-induced torques in asymmetric magnetic tunnel junctions containing a conventional ferromagnet and a magnetic Weyl semimetal contact. The Weyl semimetal hosts chiral bulk states and topologically protected Fermi arc…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 D. J. P. de Sousa , Fei Xue , J. P. Wang , P. M. Haney , Tony Low

We study the effects of disorder on semi-infinite Weyl and Dirac semimetals where the presence of a boundary leads to the formation of either Fermi arcs/rays or Dirac surface states. Using a local version of the self-consistent Born…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Eric Brillaux , Andrei A. Fedorenko

We systematically investigate the properties of bulk, surface and edge plasmons in Weyl semimetals in presence of a magnetic field. It is found that unidirectional plasmons with different properties exist on different surfaces, which is in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 Furu Zhang , Yang Gao , Wei Zhang

As a special type of collinear antiferromagnetism (AFM), altermagnetism has garnered significant research interest recently. Altermagnets exhibit broken parity-time symmetry and zero net magnetization in real space, leading to substantial…

The recent discovery of the first Weyl semimetal in TaAs provides the first observation of a Weyl fermion in nature and demonstrates a novel type of anomalous surface state, the Fermi arc. Like topological insulators, the bulk topological…

In this review we discuss a wide range of topological properties of electron quasiparticles in Dirac and Weyl semimetals. Their nontrivial topology is quantified by a monopole-like Berry curvature in the vicinity of Weyl nodes, as well as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-26 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , P. O. Sukhachov

We consider magnetic Weyl semimetals. First of all we review relation of intrinsic anomalous Hall conductivity, band contribution to intrinsic magnetic moment, and the conductivity of chiral separation effect (CSE) to the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-01 M. A. Zubkov

We study the generic band structures of the five-dimensional (5D) Weyl semimetal, in which the band degeneracies are 2D Weyl surfaces in the momentum space, and may have non-trivial linkings with each other if they carry nonzero second…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-01 Jing-Yuan Chen , Biao Lian , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We study superconductivity in a Weyl semimetal with a tilted dispersion around two Weyl points of opposite chirality. In the absence of any tilt, the state with zero momentum pairing between two Fermi sheets enclosing each Weyl point has…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-04-04 M. Alidoust , K. Halterman , A. A. Zyuzin