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Recent theoretical work predicted emergence of chiral topological superconducting phase with spontaneously broken time reversal symmetry in a twisted bilayer composed of two high-$T_c$ cuprate monolayers, such as…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-10-13 Oguzhan Can , Xiao-Xiao Zhang , Catherine Kallin , Marcel Franz

Topological semimetals have been at the forefront of experimental and theoretical attention in condensed matter physics. Among these, recently discovered Weyl semimetals have a dispersion described by a three-dimensional Dirac cone, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-31 Weizhe Edward Liu , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz , Dimitrie Culcer

Using density functional theory calculations, we have found an enhanced magneto-optical Kerr effect in Fe/insulator interfaces. The results of our study indicate that interfacial Fe atoms in the Fe films have a low-dimensional nature, which…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-20 Bo Gu , Saburo Takahashi , Sadamichi Maekawa

We have studied the film thickness dependence of the current-induced magneto-optical Kerr effect in Pt and V thin films. The Kerr signal for Pt shows little dependence on the thickness in the range studied (20-80 nm). In contrast, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-10 Y. Marui , M. Kawaguchi , S. Sumi , H. Awano , K. Nakamura , M. Hayashi

Novel quasi two dimensional typically layered semimetals offer a unique opportunity to control the density and even the topology of the electronic matter. In intercalated MoTe2 type II Weyl semimetal the tilt of the dispersion relation…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-23 Baruh Rosenstein , B. Ya. Shapiro

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

The propagation of light in Weyl semimetal films is analyzed. The magnetic family of these materials is known by anomalous Hall effect, which, being enhanced by the large Berry curvature, allows one to create strong gyrotropic and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-21 O. V. Kotov , Yu. E. Lozovik

Magneto-optic Kerr effect can probe the process of magnetization reversal in ferromagnetic thin films and thus be used as an alternative to magnetometry. Kerr effect is wavelength-dependent and the Kerr rotation can reverse sign, vanishing…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-04 Jörg Schöpf , Paul H. M. van Loosdrecht , Ionela Lindfors-Vrejoiu

Magnetic and anomalous Hall conductivities induce anomalous transport features and novel optical phenomena in chiral systems. Here, we investigate reflection properties on the surface of a medium ruled by axion electrodynamics, which…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-25 Pedro D. S. Silva , Alex Q. Costa , Ronald A. Pereira , Manoel M. Ferreira

We present systematic theoretical studies of both bulk and surface electromagnetic eigenmodes, or polaritons, in Weyl semimetals. We derive the tensors of bulk and surface conductivity taking into account all possible combinations of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Qianfan Chen , A. Ryan Kutayiah , Ivan Oladyshkin , Mikhail Tokman , Alexey Belyanin

Distinct to type-I Weyl semimetals (WSMs) that host quasiparticles described by the Weyl equation, the energy dispersion of quasiparticles in type-II WSMs violates Lorentz invariance and the Weyl cones in the momentum space are tilted.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-07 M. -Y. Yao , N. Xu , Q. Wu , G. Autès , N. Kumar , V. N. Strocov , N. C. Plumb , M. Radovic , O. V. Yazyev , C. Felser , J. Mesot , M. Shi

In this paper, we discuss the effect of a periodically driving circularly polarized laser beam in the high frequency limit, on the band structure and thermal transport properties of type-I and type-II Weyl semimetals (WSMs). We develop the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Anirudha Menon , Debashree Chowdhury , Banasri Basu

We develop a semiclassical Boltzmann theory for frequency-dependent magneto-optical transport in Weyl semimetals (WSMs), incorporating momentum-dependent relaxation via a scattering matrix approach. The interplay of orbital magnetic moment,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Azaz Ahmad , Pankaj Bhalla , Snehasish Nandy , Tanay Nag

We theoretically study low energy electric transport in a junction consisting of a Weyl semimetal and a metallic superconductor. The characteristic features of the differential conductance depend on the relative directions between the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-07-10 Shuhei Uchida , Tetsuro Habe , Yasuhiro Asano

Nonlinear optical waveguides, particularly those harnessing the optical Kerr effect, are promising for advancing next-generation photonic technologies. Despite the Kerr effect`s ultrafast response, its inherently weak nonlinearity has…

One striking property of the Landau level spectrum of a Weyl semimetal (WSM) is the existence of a chiral Landau level, in which the electrons propagate unidirectionally along the magnetic field. This linearly dispersive level influences…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Jean-Michel Parent , René Côté , Ion Garate

The time resolved Magnetooptical Kerr effect in the substrate-strain-induced insulating ferromagnetic phase in (Pr$_{0.6}$Ca$_{0.4}$)MnO$_3$ thin films on two different substrates was measured in a magnetic field up to 1.1T. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-01-08 T. Mertelj , R. Yusupov , A. Gradisek , M. Filippi , W. Prellier , D. Mihailovic

Multi-Weyl semimetals (m-WSMs) are a new type of Weyl semimetal that have linear dispersion along one symmetry direction but anisotropic non-linear dispersion along the two transverse directions with a topological charge larger than one.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-03 Sanghyun Park , Seungchan Woo , E. J. Mele , Hongki Min

We analyze the Hall conductivity $\sigma_{xy}(\omega)$ of a charge ordered state with momentum $\mathbf{Q}=(0,2Q)$ and calculate the intrinsic contribution to the Kerr angle $\Theta_K$ using the fully reconstructed tight-binding band…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-12 Martin Gradhand , Ilya Eremin , Johannes Knolle

The contour integration technique applied to calculate the optical conductivity tensor at finite temperatures in the case of inhomogeneous surface layered systems within the framework of the spin-polarized relativistic screened…

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