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There is an immense effort in search for various types of Weyl semimetals, of which the most fundamental phase consists of the minimal number of i.e. two Weyl points, but is hard to engineer in solids. Here we demonstrate how such…

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We propose two complementary design principles for engineering three-dimensional (3D) Weyl semimetals and superconductors in a layer-by-layer setup which includes even and odd parity orbitals in alternating layers - dubbed orbital selective…

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Topologically nontrivial superconducting phases have been engineered in topological materials by the proximity effect in contact with conventional superconductors. In this paper, by using the method of the Kronig-Penney model, we study the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-03-16 Ryota Nakai , Kentaro Nomura

Establishment of phase-coherence and a non-dissipative (super)current between two weakly coupled superconductors, known as the Josephson effect, plays a foundational role in basic physics and applications to metrology, precision sensing,…

Based on $ab$ $initio$ calculations and low-energy effective $k{\cdot}p$ model, we propose a type of Weyl nodal point-line fermion, composed of 0D Weyl points and 1D Weyl nodal line, in ferromagnetic material Eu$_5$Bi$_3$. In the absence of…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-13 Hongbo Wu , Da-Shuai Ma , Botao Fu , Wei Guo , Yugui Yao

Very recently, novel quasiparticles beyond those mimicking the elementary high-energy particles such as Dirac and Weyl fermions have attracted great interest in condensed matter physics and materials science1-9. Here we report the first…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Hailong He , Chunyin Qiu , Xiangxi Cai , Meng Xiao , Manzhu Ke , Fan Zhang , Zhengyou Liu

Weyl superconductors feature Weyl points at zero energy in the three-dimensional (3D) Brillouin zone and arc states that connect the projections of these Weyl points on the surface. We report that higher-order Weyl superconductors can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 W. B. Rui , Song-Bo Zhang , Moritz M. Hirschmann , Andreas P. Schnyder , Björn Trauzettel , Z. D. Wang

We investigate a three-dimensional (3D) topological phase resembling a Weyl semimetal, modulated by a periodic potential and engineered through Floquet dynamics. This system is constructed by stacking two-dimensional Chern insulators and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Fang Qin , Rui Chen

The emergent Weyl fermions in condensed matter generally break the Lorentz invariance resulting in a tilted (type-I) or over-tilted (type-II) energy dispersion. The tilting energy spectrums can lead to exotic quantum interference effects in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-26 Debabrata Sinha

We discover three-dimensional intertwined Weyl phases, by developing a theory to create topological phases. The theory is based on intertwining existing topological gapped and gapless phases protected by the same crystalline symmetry. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 W. B. Rui , Zhen Zheng , Moritz M. Hirschmann , Song-Bo Zhang , Chenjie Wang , Z. D. Wang

We study the physics of the superconducting variant of Weyl semimetals, which may be realized in multilayer structures comprising topological insulators and superconductors. We show how superconductivity can split each Weyl node into two.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-12 Tobias Meng , Leon Balents

Weyl semimetals are gapless three-dimensional (3D) phases whose bandstructures contain Weyl point (WP) degeneracies. WPs carry topological charge and can only be eliminated by mutual annihilation, a process that generates the various…

A variety of quantum systems exhibits Weyl points in their spectra where two bands cross in a point of three-dimensional parameters space with conical dispersion in the vicinity of the point. We consider theoretically the soft constraint…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-21 Janis Erdmanis , Árpád Lukács , Yuli V. Nazarov

We show that Hamiltonians with Weyl points can be realized for ultracold atoms using laser-assisted tunneling in three-dimensional optical lattices. Weyl points are synthetic magnetic monopoles that exhibit a robust, three-dimensional…

We study non-Hermitian Josephson junctions formed by multiple superconductors and discover the emergence of exceptional points entirely determined by the interplay of the distinct superconducting phases and non-Hermiticity due to normal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 Jorge Cayao , Masatoshi Sato

Recently, intense efforts have been devoted to realizing classical analogues of various topological phases of matter. In this Letter, we explore the intriguing Weyl physics by a simple one-dimensional sonic crystal, in which two extra…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Xiying Fan , Chunyin Qiu , Yuanyuan Shen , Hailong He , Meng Xiao , Manzhu Ke , Zhengyou Liu

The technology of superconductor-semiconductor nanowire devices has matured in the last years in the quest for topological quantum computing. This makes it feasible to make more complex and sophisticated devices. We investigate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-23 E. V. Repin , Y. V. Nazarov

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

Weyl points emerge as topological monopoles of Berry flux in the three-dimensional (3D) momentum space and have been extensively studied in topological semimetals. As the underlying topological principles apply to any type of waves under…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 Hao Ge , Xu Ni , Yuan Tian , Samit Kumar Gupta , Ming-Hui Lu , Xin Lin , Wei-Dong Huang , C. T. Chan , Yan-Feng Chen

We theoretically predict proximity-induced odd-frequency (odd-$\omega$) pairing on the surface of a Weyl nodal loop semimetal, characterized by a nodal loop Fermi surface and drumhead-like surface states (DSSs), attached to conventional…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-09-18 Paramita Dutta , Annica M. Black-Schaffer