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Weyl semimetal showing open-arc surface states is a prominent example of topological quantum matter in three dimensions. With the bulk-boundary correspondence present, nontrivial surface-bulk hybridization is inevitable but less understood.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Xiao-Xiao Zhang , Naoto Nagaosa

We combine quasiparticle interference simulation (theory) and atomic resolution scanning tunneling spectro-microscopy (experiment) to visualize the interference patterns on a type-II Weyl semimetal Mo$_{x}$W$_{1-x}$Te$_2$ for the first…

A Weyl semimetal (WSM) features Weyl fermions in its bulk and topological surface states on surfaces, and is novel material hosting Weyl fermions, a kind of fundamental particles. The WSM was regarded as a three-dimensional version of…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-26 Shumeng Chi , Zhilin Li , Haohai Yu , Gang Wang , Shuxian Wang , Huaijin Zhang , Jiyang Wang

Topological semimetals are gapless states of matter which have robust and unique electromagnetic responses and surface states. In this paper, we consider semimetals which have point like Fermi surfaces in various spatial dimensions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 Srinidhi T. Ramamurthy , Taylor L. Hughes

Magnetic susceptibility of the topological Weyl, type-II Weyl, Dirac, and line node semimetals is theoretically investigated. Dependences of this susceptibility on the chemical potential, temperature, direction and magnitude of the magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-16 G. P. Mikitik , Yu. V. Sharlai

It is proposed that strain-induced pseudomagnetic fields in Dirac and Weyl materials could be used as valley and chirality sensitive lenses for beams of Weyl quasiparticles. The study of the (pseudo-)magnetic lenses is performed by using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , P. O. Sukhachov

Weyl semimetals possess low energy excitations which act as monopoles of Berry curvature in momentum space. These emergent monopoles are at the heart of the extensive novel transport properties that Weyl semimetals exhibit. The singular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Timothy M. McCormick , Robert C. McKay , Nandini Trivedi

We review recent theoretical progress in the understanding and prediction of novel topological semimetals. Topological semimetals define a class of gapless electronic phases exhibiting topologically stable crossings of energy bands.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Heng Gao , Jörn W. F. Venderbos , Youngkuk Kim , Andrew M. Rappe

Weyl fermions are powerful yet simple entities that connect geometry, topology, and physics. While their existence as fundamental particles is still uncertain, growing evidence shows they emerge as quasiparticles in special materials called…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Azaz Ahmad

Electric field manipulation plays a key role in applications such as electron acceleration, nonlinear light-matter interaction, and radiation engineering. Nonreciprocal materials, such as Weyl semimetals, enable the manipulation of the…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-30 Lu Wang

Helicons are transverse electromagnetic waves propagating in three-dimensional (3D) electron systems subject to a static magnetic field. We present a theory of helicons propagating through a 3D Weyl semimetal. Our approach relies on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-18 Francesco M. D. Pellegrino , Mikhail I. Katsnelson , Marco Polini

The recent discovery of Weyl fermions in solids enables exploitation of relativistic physics and development of a spectrum of intriguing physical phenomena. They are constituted of pairs of Weyl points with two-fold band degeneracy, which…

We propose and show that application of light leads to an intriguing platform for controlling exceptional points in non-Hermitian topological systems. We demonstrate our proposal using three different non-Hermitian systems -- nodal line…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Ayan Banerjee , Awadhesh Narayan

We investigate the quasi-particle and transport properties of a model describing interacting Dirac and Weyl semimetals in the presence of local Hubbard repulsion $U$, where we explicitly include a deviation from the linearity of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-18 Arianna Poli , Niklas Wagner , Max Fischer , Alessandro Toschi , Giorgio Sangiovanni , Sergio Ciuchi

Quantum materials governed by emergent topological fermions have become a cornerstone of physics. Dirac fermions in graphene form the basis for moir\'e quantum matter, and Dirac fermions in magnetic topological insulators enabled the…

We study the quasinormal modes of a holographic model of a Weyl semimetal. The model features quantum phase transition between a topological phase and a trivial phase. We put particular emphasis on the hydrodynamic modes and show that a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-04 Nishal Rai , Karl Landsteiner

A novel oscillatory behaviour of the DC conductivity in Weyl semimetals with vacancies has recently been identified, occurring in the absence of external magnetic fields. Here, we argue that this effect has a geometric interpretation in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-09 Giandomenico Palumbo

We compute the electrical conductivities at non-zero frequency in a top-down holographic model of a Weyl semimetal, consisting of $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric $\mathrm{SU}(N_c)$ Yang--Mills theory coupled to $\mathcal{N}=2$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-23 Haruki Furukawa , Sacha Ployet , Ronnie Rodgers

Weyl semimetals are a class of topological semimetals defined by a Chern number as their topological invariant. These materials exhibit unique properties, such as transverse topological currents and anomalous magnetoelectric responses,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-28 Gengyue Dong

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