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Weyl semimetals typically appear in systems in which either time-reversal (T) or inversion (P}) symmetry are broken. Here we show that in the presence of gauge potentials these topological states of matter can also arise in fermionic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-08-08 L. Lepori , I. C. Fulga , A. Trombettoni , M. Burrello

Klein tunneling refers to the absence of normal backscattering of electrons even under the case of high potential barriers. At the barrier interface, the perfect matching of electron and hole wavefunctions enables a unit transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-20 Can Yesilyurt , Seng Ghee Tan , Gengchiau Liang , Mansoor B. A. Jalil

Weyl semimetals (WSMs) constitute a 3D phase with linearly-dispersing Weyl excitations at low energy, which lead to unusual electrodynamic responses and open Fermi arcs on boundaries. We derive a simple criterion to identify and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-28 William Witczak-Krempa , Michael Knap , Dmitry Abanin

Topological band theory has revolutionized our understanding of electronic structure of materials, in particular, a novel state - Weyl semimetal - has been predicted for systems with strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC). Here, a new class of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-20 Yuanping Chen , Yuee Xie , Shengyuan A. Yang , Hui Pan , Fan Zhang , Marvin L. Cohen , Shengbai Zhang

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

Weyl semimetals and nodal line semimetals are characterized by linear band touching at zero-dimensional points and one-dimensional lines, respectively. We predict that a circularly polarized light drives nodal line semimetals into Weyl…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-19 Zhongbo Yan , Zhong Wang

A Weyl semimetal possesses spin-polarized band-crossings, called Weyl nodes, connected by topological surface arcs. The low-energy excitations near the crossing points behave the same as massless Weyl fermions, leading to exotic properties…

Torsion can be realized as dislocation in the crystal lattice of material. It is particularly interesting if the material has fermions in the spectrum, such as graphene, topological insulators, Dirac and Weyl semimetals, as it's transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Chong-Sun Chu , Rong-Xin Miao

The Weyl particle is the massless fermionic cousin of the photon. While no fundamental Weyl particles have been identified, they arise in condensed matter and meta-material systems, where their spinor nature imposes topological constraints…

We calculate the surface dc conductivity of Weyl semimetals and show that it contains an anomalous contribution in addition to a Drude contribution from the Fermi arc. The anomalous part is independent of the surface scattering time, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-23 Hridis K. Pal , Osakpolor Eki Obakpolor , Pavan Hosur

We predict a novel metallic state of matter that emerges in a Weyl-semimetal superstructure with spatially varying Weyl-node positions. In the new state, the Weyl nodes are stretched into extended, anisotropic Fermi surfaces, which can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-15 Maxim Breitkreiz , Piet W. Brouwer

We provide a manifestly topological classification scheme for generalised Weyl semimetals, in any spatial dimension and with arbitrary Weyl surfaces which may be non-trivially linked. The classification naturally incorporates that of Chern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-22 Varghese Mathai , Guo Chuan Thiang

Weyl semimetals have been intensely studied as a three dimensional realization of a Dirac-like excitation spectrum where the conduction bands and valence bands touch at isolated Weyl points in momentum space. Like in graphene, this property…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-22 Tobias Holder , Chia-Wei Huang , Pavel Ostrovsky

The key feature of Weyl semimetals (WSM) is the presence of topologically protected Dirac cones in a 3D material. We consider the effect of restricting geometry on the spectrum of excitations in WSM using as a model a cylindrical WSM wire.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-23 Mikhail Erementchouk , Pinaki Mazumder

We use the exact analytical technique introduced in Phys. Rev. B 101, 115405 to recover the surface Green's functions and the corresponding Fermi-arc surface states for various lattice models of Weyl semimetals. For these models we use the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 Sarah Pinon , Vardan Kaladzhyan , Cristina Bena

We re-examine the question of quantum oscillations from surface Fermi arcs and chiral modes in Weyl semimetals. By introducing two tools - semiclassical phase-space quantization and a numerical implementation of a layered construction of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-14 Yi Zhang , Daniel Bulmash , Pavan Hosur , Andrew C. Potter , Ashvin Vishwanath

We present a theory of the anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in a doped Weyl semimetal, or Weyl metal, including both intrinsic and extrinsic (impurity scattering) contributions. We demonstrate that a Weyl metal is distinguished from an ordinary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-05 A. A. Burkov

This study presents Fermi-arcs mediated transport in a Weyl semimetal thin slab, interfacing two $s$-wave superconductors. We present detailed study with both time-reversal and inversion symmetry broken Weyl semimetals under grounding,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-29 Rekha Kumari , Dibya Kanti Mukherjee , Arijit Kundu

In periodic media, despite the close relationship between geometrical effects in the bulk and topological surface states, the two are typically probed separately. We show that when beams in a Weyl medium reflect off an interface with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Udvas Chattopadhyay , Li-Kun Shi , Baile Zhang , Justin C. W. Song , Y. D. Chong

By using Wilsonian Renormalization Group (RG) methods we rigorously establish the existence of a Weyl semimetallic phase in an interacting three dimensional fermionic lattice system, by showing that the zero temperature Schwinger functions…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-10 Vieri Mastropietro