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Electrical manipulation of emergent phenomena due to nontrivial band topology is a key to realize next-generation technology using topological protection. A Weyl semimetal is a three-dimensional gapless system that hosts Weyl fermions as…

We propose and investigate a spin transistor device consisting of two ferromagnetic leads connected by a two-dimensional topological insulator as the channel material. It exploits the unique features of the topological spin-helical edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-31 Xianbo Xiao , Ying Liu , Zhengfang Liu , Guoping Ai , Shengyuan A. Yang , Guanghui Zhou

Weyl semimetals (WSM) have been extensively studied due to their exotic properties such as topological surface states and anomalous transport phenomena. Their band structure topology is usually predetermined by material parameters and can…

We propose a new topological quantum state of matter---the two-dimensional (2D) Weyl half semimetal (WHS), which features 2D Weyl points at Fermi level belonging to a single spin channel, such that the low-energy electrons are described by…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-28 Jing-Yang You , Cong Chen , Zhen Zhang , Xian-Lei Sheng , Shengyuan A. Yang , Gang Su

A Weyl semimetal is a topologically non-trivial phase of matter that hosts mass-less Weyl fermions, the particles that remained elusive for more than 80 years since their theoretical discovery. The Weyl semimetals exhibit unique transport…

We investigate an unconventional topological phase transition that occurs in quantum spin Hall (QSH) systems when applying an external in-plane magnetic field. We show that this transition between QSH and trivial insulator phases is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-02 Fernando Dominguez , Benedikt Scharf , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

The spin-transfer torque is a fundamental physical quantity to operate the spintronics devices such as racetrack memory. We theoretically study the spin-transfer torque and analyze the dynamics of the magnetic domain walls in magnetic Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-08 Daichi Kurebayashi , Kentaro Nomura

We demonstrate theoretically the non-reciprocal heating dynamics of two nanoparticles in the vicinity of a substrate all made of the ferromagnetic Weyl semi-metal Co$_3$Sn$_2$S$_2$. We show that the thermal routing effect is due to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 A. Naeimi , S. -A. Biehs

Weyl semimetal (WSM) is expected to be an ideal spintronic material owing to its spin currents carried by the bulk and surface states with spin-momentum locking. A photocurrent generation in noncentrosymmetric WSM was also predicted owing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-22 Kai Sun , Shuaishuai Sun , Cong Guo , Linlin Wei , Huanfang Tian , Huaixin Yang , Genfu Chen , Jianqi Li

Giant spin-splitting was recently predicted in collinear antiferromagnetic materials with a specific class of magnetic space group. In this work, we have predicted a two-dimensional (2D) antiferromagnetic Weyl semimetal (WS), CrO with large…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-17 Xin Chen , Duo Wang , Linyang Li , Biplab Sanyal

The search for a material platform for topological quantum computation has recently focused on unconventional superconductors. Such material systems, where the superconducting order parameter breaks a symmetry of the crystal point group,…

Spintronics aims to exploit the spin degree of freedom in solid state devices for data storage and information processing technologies. The fundamental spintronic device concepts such as creation, manipulation and detection of spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-21 André Dankert , Saroj P. Dash

Weyl semimetals are well-known for hosting topologically protected linear band crossings, serving as the analog of the relativistic Weyl Fermions in the condensed matter context. Such analogy persists deeply, allowing the existence of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-15 Yang Gao

We study dynamical mass generation and the resultant helical spin orders in topological Dirac and Weyl semimetals, including the edge states of quantum spin Hall insulators, the surface states of weak topological insulators, and the bulk…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-08-14 Xiao-Qi Sun , Shou-Cheng Zhang , Zhong Wang

Currently, there is a flurry of research interest on materials with an unconventional electronic structure, and we have already seen significant progress in their understanding and engineering towards real-life applications. The interest…

We investigate ferroelectric polariation as well as the formation of long-range order and the carrier density distribution in type-II Weyl semimetal WTe$_{2}$ in $T_{d}$ phase. It is been found that the metallicity and ferroelectricity can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-27 Chen-Huan Wu , Yujie Ren

Two-dimensional Chern insulators have emerged as crucial platforms for the realization of the quantum anomalous Hall effect, and as such have attracted significant interest in spintronics and topological quantum physics due to their unique…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Panjun Feng , Miao Gao , Xun-Wang Yan , Fengjie Ma

The discovery of van der Waals (vdW) magnets opened up a new paradigm for condensed matter physics and spintronic technologies. However, the operations of active spintronic devices with vdW magnets are so far limited to cryogenic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-02 Bing Zhao , Roselle Ngaloy , Anamul Md. Hoque , Bogdan Karpiak , Dmitrii Khokhriakov , Saroj P. Dash

Symmetry protected topology has been studied extensively in the past twenty years, but the topology protected by spin symmetry has just begun to be studied. In this work, based on spin symmetry analysis, we propose that a class of Weyl…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-04 Shuai Qu , Xiao-Yao Hou , Zheng-Xin Liu , Peng-Jie Guo , Zhong-Yi Lu

Quantum topological materials, exemplified by topological insulators, three-dimensional Dirac semimetals and Weyl semimetals, have attracted much attention recently because of their unique electronic structure and physical properties. Very…