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Berry curvature in Weyl semimetals results in very intriguing magneto-electric and magneto-thermal transport properties. In this paper, we explore the impact of the tilting of the Weyl nodes, which breaks the time-reversal symmetry, on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-13 Kamal Das , Amit Agarwal

Topological insulators can exhibit strong magnetoelectric effects when their time-reversal symmetry is broken. In this Letter we consider the magneto-optical Kerr and Faraday effects of a topological insulator thin film weakly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Wang-Kong Tse , A. H. MacDonald

We predict a nonlinear Hall effect in certain Weyl semimetals with broken inversion symmetry. When the energy dispersions about pairs of Weyl nodes are skewed -- the Weyl cones are "tilted" -- the concerted actions of the anomalous velocity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-19 Rui-Hao Li , Olle G. Heinonen , Anton A. Burkov , Steven S. -L. Zhang

Magneto conductivities in Weyl semimetals (WSM) in presence of small fields are studied using quasi-classical Boltzmann transport equations (BTE). Following such formalism here we consider irradiation via circularly polarized light on a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-11 Rounak Sen , Satyaki Kar

We study the effect of a perpendicular magnetic fieldBon a multinode Weyl semimetal (mWSM)of arbitrary integer monopole chargen, with the two Weyl multinodes separated ink-space. Besides type-I mWSMs, there exist type-II mWSMs which are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-24 Anirudha Menon , Banasri Basu

The identification of distinct charge transport features, deriving from nontrivial bulk band and surface states, has been a challenging subject in the field of topological systems. In topological Dirac and Weyl semimetals, nontrivial…

We report the engineering of the polar magnetooptical (MO) Kerr effect in perpendicularly magnetized L10-MnAl epitaxial films with remarkably tuned magnetization, strain, and structural disorder by varying substrate temperature (Ts) during…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-15 Lijun Zhu , Liane Brandt , Jianhua Zhao

We consider a Weyl semimetal (WSM) with finite doping and tilt within a continuum model Hamiltonian with both broken time reversal and inversion symmetry. We calculate the absorptive part of the anomalous AC Hall conductivity as a function…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-21 S. P. Mukherjee , J. P. Carbotte

The magneto-optical transport of gapless type-I tilted single Weyl semimetals(WSMs) exhibits suppression of total magnetoconductivities in the presence of orbital magnetic moment(OMM) in linear and nonlinear responses (Yang Gao et al.,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-12 Panchlal Prabhat , Amit Gupta

We study the anomalous Nernst and thermal Hall effects in a linearized low-energy model of a tilted Weyl semimetal, with two Weyl nodes separated in momentum space. For inversion symmetric tilt, we give analytic expressions in two opposite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Yago Ferreiros , A. A. Zyuzin , Jens H. Bardarson

Nonlinear magneto-optics is a very sensitive fingerprint of the electronic, magnetic, and atomic structure of surfaces, interfaces, and thin ferromagnetic films. Analyzing theoretically the nonlinear magneto-optical Kerr effect for thin…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 U. Pustogowa , T. A. Luce , W. Hubner , K. H. Bennemann

We present a theory of the magneto-optical Faraday and Kerr effects of topological insulator (TI) films. For film thicknesses short compared to wavelength, we find that the low-frequency Faraday effect in ideal systems is quantized at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Wang-Kong Tse , A. H. MacDonald

We suggest the possibility of a linear magnetochiral effect in time reversal breaking Weyl semimetals. Generically the magnetochiral effect consists in a simultaneous linear dependence of the magnetotransport coefficients with the magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Alberto Cortijo

The progress in exploiting new electronic materials and devices has been a major driving force in solid-state physics. As a new state of matter, a Weyl semimetal (WSM), particularly a type-II WSM, hosts Weyl fermions as emergent…

We generalize a semiclassical theory and use the argument of angular momentum conservation to examine the ballistic transport in lightly-doped Weyl semimetals, taking into account various phase-space Berry curvatures. We predict universal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-14 Shengyuan A. Yang , Hui Pan , Fan Zhang

We discuss the circularly polarized light (of amplitude $A_0$ and frequency $\omega$) driven thermo-electric transport properties of type-I and type-II multi-Weyl semimetals (mWSMs) in the high frequency limit. Considering the low energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Tanay Nag , Anirudha Menon , Banasri Basu

We compute the magnetoelectric conductivity tensors in planar Hall set-ups, which are built with tilted Weyl semimetals (WSMs) and multi-Weyl semimetals (mWSMs), considering all possible relative orientations of the electromagnetic fields…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 Rahul Ghosh , Ipsita Mandal

Employing high-pressure infrared spectroscopy we unveil the Weyl semimetal phase of elemental Te and its topological properties. The linear frequency dependence of the optical conductivity provides clear evidence for metallization of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-31 Diego Rodriguez , Alexander A. Tsirlin , Tobias Biesner , Teppei Ueno , Takeshi Takahashi , Kaya Kobayashi , Martin Dressel , Ece Uykur

We theoretically study the Kondo screening of a spin-1/2 magnetic impurity in the bulk of a type-II Weyl semimetal (WSM) by use of the variational wave function method. We consider a type-II WSM model with two Weyl nodes located on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-06 Lu-Ji Wang , Xing-Tai Hu , Lin Li , Dong-Hui Xu , Jin-Hua Sun , Wei-Qiang Chen

Weyl semimetals (WSMs) have unusual optical response originated from unique topological properties of their bulk and surface electron states. Their third-order optical nonlinearity is expected to be very strong, especially at long…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Sultan Almutairi , Qianfan Chen , Mikhail Tokman , Alexey Belyanin