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Quantum phase transitions of three-dimensional (3D) Weyl semimetals (WSMs) subject to uncorrelated on-site disorder are investigated through quantum conductance calculations and finite-size scaling of localization length. Contrary to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-06-27 Ying Su , X. S. Wang , X. R. Wang

Weyl semimetals, featuring massless linearly dispersing chiral fermions in three dimensions, provide an excellent platform for studying the interplay of electronic interactions and topology, and exploring new correlated states of matter.…

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We study the transport properties of interacting electrons in a disordered quantum wire within the framework of the Luttinger liquid model. We demonstrate that the notion of weak localization is applicable to the strongly correlated…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin , D. G. Polyakov

We theoretically investigate the thermoelectric properties (electronic contribution) of a hybrid structure comprising of an inversion symmetry broken Weyl semimetal (WSM) and intrinsic Weyl superconductor (WSC) with $s$-wave pairing,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Ruchi Saxena , Nirnoy Basak , Pritam Chatterjee , Sumathi Rao , Arijit Saha

Double Weyl nodes are topologically protected band crossing points which carry chiral charge $\pm2$. They are stabilized by $C_{4}$ point group symmetry and are predicted to occur in $\mathrm{SrSi_{2}}$ or $\mathrm{HgCr_{2}Se_{4}}$. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-02 Björn Sbierski , Maximilian Trescher , Emil J. Bergholtz , Piet W. Brouwer

Weyl superconductivity is a topological phase in three-dimensional crystals in which the Weyl equation describes quasiparticle excitation near band-touching points in momentum space called Weyl nodes. For quasicrystals which lack…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-09 Masahiro Hori , Ryo Okugawa , K. Tanaka , Takami Tohyama

A Weyl semimetal (WSM)\ is a three-dimensional topological phase of matter where pairs of nondegenerate bands cross at isolated points in the Brillouin zone called Weyl nodes. Near these points, the electronic dispersion is gapless and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-20 Samuel Vadnais , Rene Cote

Weyl semimetals are characterized by an electronic structure with linearly dispersed nodes and distinguished chirality, protected by broken inversion or time reversal symmetry. The intercalated transition metal dichalcogenide…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-08 Shreenanda Ghosh , Chris Lygouras , Zili Feng , Mingxuan Fu , Satoru Nakatsuji , Natalia Drichko

Weyl fermions scattering from a random Coulomb potential are predicted to exhibit resistivity versus temperature $\rho \space \alpha \space T^{-4}$ in a single particle model. Here we show that, in closed environment-grown polycrystalline…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-14 P. G. LaBarre , L. Dong , J. Trinh , T. Siegrist , A. P. Ramirez

The Weyl semimetal exhibits various interesting physical phenomena because of the Weyl points, i.e., linear band-crossings. We show by Floquet theory that a linearly polarized light applied to a band insulator can induce controllable Weyl…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-19 Xiao-Xiao Zhang , Tze Tzen Ong , Naoto Nagaosa

Topological materials, such as topological insulators or semimetals, usually not only reveal the nontrivial properties of their electronic wavefunctions through the appearance of stable boundary modes, but also through very specific…

For several decades, it was widely believed that a non-interacting disordered electronic system could only undergo an Anderson metal-insulator transition due to Anderson localization. However, numerous recent theoretical works have…

A Weyl semimetal is a three dimensional topological gapless phase. In the presence of strong enough disorder it undergoes a quantum transition towards a diffusive metal phase whose universality class depends on the range of disorder…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-10-18 Eric Brillaux , David Carpentier , Andrei A. Fedorenko

We demonstrate that in an ideal Weyl semimetal, in which the Fermi energy coincides with the band-touching nodes, weak direct inter-nodal scattering is irrelevant and, as a result, the chiral charge is (almost) exactly conserved. This leads…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-25 A. A. Burkov

We demonstrate that a disordered magnetic Weyl semimetal may be mapped onto a two-dimensional array of coupled replicated Hubbard chains, where the Hubbard $U$ is directly related to the variance of the disorder potential. This is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-11 Jinmin Yi , A. A. Burkov

We study three-dimensional Dirac fermions with weak finite-range scalar potential disorder. In the clean system, the density of states vanishes quadratically at the Dirac point. Disorder is known to be perturbatively irrelevant, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-12 Rahul Nandkishore , David A. Huse , S. L. Sondhi

We study light propagation in a neutral Weyl semimetal with the Fermi level lying at the Weyl nodes in the weak self-interacting regime. The nontrivial topology induces a screening effect in one of the two transverse gauge fields, for which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-14 Yago Ferreiros , Alberto Cortijo

The manifestation of Weyl fermions in strongly correlated electron systems is of particular interest. We report evidence for Weyl fermions in the heavy fermion semimetal YbPtBi from electronic structure calculations, angle-resolved…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-07 C. Y. Guo , F. Wu , Z. Z. Wu , M. Smidman , C. Cao , A. Bostwick , C. Jozwiak , E. Rotenberg , Y. Liu , F. Steglich , H. Q. Yuan

Bulk 1T$^\prime$-MoTe$_2$ shows a structural phase transition from 1T$^\prime$ to Weyl semimetallic (WSM) $ T_{d} $ phase at $\sim$ 240 K. This phase transition and transport properties in the two phases have not been investigated on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-06 Manabendra Kuiri , Subhadip Das , D. V. S. Muthu , Anindya Das , A K Sood

We consider the properties of the type II Weyl semimetals at low temperatures basing on the particular tight - binding model. In the presence of electric field directed along the line connecting the Weyl points of opposite chirality the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 M. A. Zubkov , M. Lewkowicz