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Weyl semimetals are phases of matter with excitations effectively described by massless Dirac fermions. Their critical nature makes unclear the persistence of such phase in presence of disorder. We present a theorem ensuring the stability…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-08 Vieri Mastropietro

Weyl semimetals are novel topological conductors that host Weyl fermions as emergent quasiparticles. While the Weyl fermions in high-energy physics are strictly defined as the massless solution of the Dirac equation and uniquely fixed by…

Weyl semimetals are recently discovered materials supporting emergent relativistic fermions in the vicinity of band-crossing points known as Weyl nodes. The positions of the nodes and the low-energy spectrum depend sensitively on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Alex Westström , Teemu Ojanen

The Weyl semimetal, due to a non-zero energy difference in the pair of Weyl nodes shows chiral magnetic effect(CME). This leads to a flow of dissipationless electric current along an applied magnetic field. Such a chiral magnetic effect in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-06 Debanand Sa

We show that tilted Weyl semimetals with a spatially varying tilt of the Weyl cones provide a platform for studying analogues to problems in anisotropic optics as well as curved spacetime. Considering particular tilting profiles, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-08 Viktor Könye , Lotte Mertens , Corentin Morice , Dmitry Chernyavsky , Ali G. Moghaddam , Jasper van Wezel , Jeroen van den Brink

Non-Hermitian topological systems are the newest additions to the growing field of topological matter. In this work, we report of the light-driven exceptional physics in a multi-Weyl semi-metal. The driving is not only a key ingredient to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Debashree Chowdhury , Ayan Banerjee , Awadhesh Narayan

We present a theoretical investigation of the electronic band structure and optical properties of a two-dimensional anisotropic semimetal that is described by a tilted semi-Dirac type spectrum with a pair of Weyl nodes. We observe that a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-13 Suheel Ahmad Malik , M. A. H. Ahshan , SK Firoz Islam

Graphene, topological insulators, and Weyl semimetals are three widely studied materials classes which possess Dirac or Weyl cones arising from either sublattice symmetry or spin-orbit coupling. In this work, we present a theory of a new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-21 Kapildeb Dolui , Tanmoy Das

Topology and chirality of fermionic quasiparticles have enabled exciting discoveries, including quantum anomalous Hall liquids and topological superconductivity. Recently, topological and chiral phonons emerge as new and fast-evolving…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-16 Tiantian Zhang , Shuichi Murakami , Hu Miao

Weyl semimetals are extraordinary systems where exotic phenomena such as Fermi arcs, pseudo-gauge fields and quantum anomalies arise from topological band degeneracy in crystalline solids for electrons and metamaterials for photons and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Li Luo , Hai-Xiao Wang , Bin Jiang , Ying Wu , Zhi-Kang Lin , Feng Li , Jian-Hua Jiang

We match analytic results to numerical calculations to provide a detailed picture of the metal-insulator and topological transitions found in density functional plus cluster dynamical mean-field calculations of pyrochlore iridates. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-30 Runzhi Wang , Ara Go , Andrew Millis

Internodal dynamics of quasiparticles in Weyl semimetals manifest themselves in hydrodynamic, transport and thermodynamic phenomena and are essential for potential valleytronic applications of these systems. In an external magnetic field,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-19 G. Bednik , K. S. Tikhonov , S. V. Syzranov

The quasiparticle spectra of interacting Weyl and nodal-line semimetals on a cubic lattice are studied using the cluster perturbation theory. By tracking the spectral functions under interaction, we find that the Weyl points will move to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-19 Jing Kang , Jianfei Zou , Kai Li , Shun-Li Yu , Lu-Bing Shao

The recent discoveries of Dirac fermions in graphene and on the surface of topological insulators have ignited worldwide interest in physics and materials science. A Weyl semimetal is an unusual crystal where electrons also behave as…

Among different topological and related phases of condensed matter, nodal semimetals occupy a special place - the electronic band topology in these materials is related to three-dimensional bulk, rather than to surface, states. A great…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 A. V. Pronin , M. Dressel

Dirac and Weyl materials refer to a class of solid materials which host low-energy quasiparticle excitations that can be described by the Dirac and Weyl equations in relativistic quantum mechanics. Starting with the advent of graphene as…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-04 Shengyuan A. Yang

We study the interaction between elliptically polarized light and a three-dimensional Luttinger semimetal with quadratic band touching using Floquet theory. In the absence of light, the touching bands can have the same or the opposite signs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Pavan Hosur , Chin-Sen Ting

Weyl semimetal is a solid material with isolated touching points between conduction and valence bands in its Brillouin zone -- Weyl points. Low energy excitations near these points exhibit a linear dispersion and act as relativistic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-01-24 M. E. Ismagambetov , P. M. Ostrovsky

Weyl points are the simplest topologically-protected degeneracy in a three-dimensional dispersion relation. The realization of Weyl semimetals in photonic crystals has allowed these singularities and their consequences to be explored with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-23 R. L. Mc Guinness , P. R. Eastham

Heavy fermion semimetals represent a promising setting to explore topological metals driven by strong correlations. In this paper, we i) summarize the theoretical results in a Weyl-Kondo semimetal phase for a strongly correlated model with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-22 Sarah E. Grefe , Hsin-Hua Lai , Silke Paschen , Qimiao Si