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Weyl semimetals are a class of materials that can be regarded as three-dimensional analogs of graphene breaking time reversal or inversion symmetry. Electrons in a Weyl semimetal behave as Weyl fermions, which have many exotic properties,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-08-05 B. Q. Lv , H. M. Weng , B. B. Fu , X. P. Wang , H. Miao , J. Ma , P. Richard , X. C. Huang , L. X. Zhao , G. F. Chen , Z. Fang , X. Dai , T. Qian , H. Ding

We explore the stability of three-dimensional Weyl and Dirac semimetals subject to quasiperiodic potentials. We present numerical evidence that the semimetal is stable for weak quasiperiodic potentials, despite being unstable for weak…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-06-23 J. H. Pixley , Justin H. Wilson , David A. Huse , Sarang Gopalakrishnan

The discovery of Weyl semimetals represents a significant advance in topological band theory. They paradigmatically enlarged the classification of topological materials to gapless systems while simultaneously providing experimental evidence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 P. Rüßmann , A. P. Weber , F. Glott , N. Xu , M. Fanciulli , S. Muff , A. Magrez , P. Bugnon , H. Berger , M. Bode , J. H. Dil , S. Blügel , P. Mavropoulos , P. Sessi

Condensed-matter provides attractive platforms to realize exotic particles, originally proposed in high-energy physics. Weyl semimetal (WSM) is a material in which low-energy collective excitations are governed by massless Weyl fermions,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-20 Amar Bharti

Weyl semimetals are a new member of the topological materials family, featuring a pair of singly degenerate Weyl cones with linear dispersion around the nodes in the bulk, and Fermi arcs on the surface. Depending on whether the system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-29 Hao Zheng , M. Zahid Hasan

The generation of photocurrent in an ideal two-dimensional Dirac spectrum is symmetry-forbidden. In sharp contrast, we show that three-dimensional Weyl semimetals can generically support significant photocurrent generations due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-18 Ching-Kit Chan , Netanel H. Lindner , Gil Refael , Patrick A. Lee

We give a review of theoretical and experimental results concerning the magnetic susceptibility of the Weyl, Dirac, and nodal-line semimetals. In particular, dependences of the susceptibility on the chemical potential, temperature, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-28 G. P. Mikitik , Yu. V. Sharlai

Topological insulators and topological semimetals are both new classes of quantum materials, which are characterized by surface states induced by the topology of the bulk band structure. Topological Dirac or Weyl semimetals show linear…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-06-21 Binghai Yan , Claudia Felser

Exotic topological and transport properties of Weyl semimetals generated a lot of excitement in the condensed matter community. Here we show that Weyl semimetals in a strong magnetic field are highly unusual optical materials. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Zhongqu Long , Yongrui Wang , Maria Erukhimova , Mikhail Tokman , Alexey Belyanin

Weyl semimetals are a new class of Dirac material that posses bulk energy nodes in three dimensions. In this paper, we study a Weyl semimetal subject to an applied magnetic field. We derive expressions for the density of states, electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-04-30 Phillip E. C. Ashby , J. P. Carbotte

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

Weyl semimetal is a new topological state of matter, characterized by the presence of nondegenerate band-touching nodes, separated in momentum space, in its bandstructure. Here we discuss a particular realization of a Weyl semimetal: a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 A. A. Zyuzin , Si Wu , A. A. Burkov

Weyl and Dirac semimetals are three dimensional phases of matter with gapless electronic excitations that are protected by topology and symmetry. As three dimensional analogs of graphene, they have generated much recent interest. Deep…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-31 N. P. Armitage , E. J. Mele , Ashvin Vishwanath

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

We summarize recent work dealing with the characterization of effective actions giving the electromagnetic response of some topological materials, arising from their microscopic structure. The case of weakly tilted Weyl semimetals in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-04 L. F. Urrutia

A Weyl semimetal is a new type of topological quantum phase with intriguing physics near the Weyl nodes. Although the equilibrium state of Weyl semimetals has been investigated, the ultrafast dynamics near the Weyl node in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-03 Guoliang Wan , Wei Yao , Kenan Zhang , Changhua Bao , Hongyun Zhang , Haijun Zhang , Yang Wu , Shuyun Zhou

We design sub-wavelength high-performing non-reciprocal optical devices using recently discovered magnetic Weyl semimetals. These passive bulk topological materials exhibit anomalous Hall effect which results in magnetooptical effects that…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-09 Viktar Asadchy , Cheng Guo , Bo Zhao , Shanhui Fan

Weyl semimetals hold great promise in revolutionizing nonreciprocal optical components due to their unique topological properties. By exhibiting nonreciprocal magneto-optical effects without necessitating an external magnetic field, these…

We study the surface states of a strongly coupled Weyl semimetal within holography. By explicit numerical computation of an inhomogeneous holographic Weyl semimetal we observe the appearance of an electric current restricted to the surface…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-07 Martin Ammon , Markus Heinrich , Amadeo Jiménez-Alba , Sebastian Moeckel

Van Roosbroeck's equations constitute a versatile tool to determine the dynamics of electrons under time- and space-dependent perturbations. Extensively utilized in ordinary semiconductors, their potential to model devices made from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 Pierre-Antoine Graham , Simon Bertrand , Michaël Bédard , Robin Durand , Ion Garate