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In Weyl semimetals, charge density wave (CDW) order can spontaneously break the chiral symmetry, gap out the Weyl nodes, and drive the material into the axion insulating phase. Investigations have however been limited since CDWs are rarely…

We study the effects of tunnelling on the band structure and Fermi arc of a time-reversal broken Weyl semimetal (WSM). When coupled to a non-magnetic parabolic band, the WSM's chiral arc state lowers in energy and forms, together with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-24 L. Goutte , T. Pereg-Barnea

The surface of a Weyl semimetal (WSM) displays Fermi arcs, i.e. disjoint segments of a two-dimensional Fermi contour. We present a quantum-mechanical non-local theory of chiral Fermi arc plasmons in WSMs with broken time-reversal symmetry.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-02 Gian Marcello Andolina , Francesco M. D. Pellegrino , Frank H. L. Koppens , Marco Polini

The electronic band structure of Weyl semimetals possesses pairs of linear band crossings, called Weyl nodes, characterized by opposite chirality charges associated with each node. The momentum space position of the nodes can reverse across…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-13 Eklavya Thareja , Gina Pantano , Ilya Vekhter , Jacob Gayles

Magnetic Weyl semimetal (MWS) is a unique topological state with open surface Fermi arc states and other exotic transport phenomena. However, most reported MWSs show multiple pairs of Weyl points and complicated Fermi surfaces, which…

Weyl semimetals (WSMs) have recently attracted a great deal of attention as they provide condensed matter realization of chiral anomaly, feature topologically protected Fermi arc surface states and sustain sharp chiral Weyl quasiparticles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 Robert-Jan Slager , Vladimir Juricic , Bitan Roy

The theoretical proposal of chiral fermions in topological semimetals has led to a significant effort towards their experimental realization. In particular, the Fermi surfaces of chiral semimetals carry quantized Chern numbers, making them…

Experiments show that the Weyl semimetal PtBi$_2$ hosts unconventional superconductivity in its topological surface states. Hence, the material is a candidate for intrinsic topological superconductivity. Measurements indicate nodal gaps in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-16 Kristian Mæland , Giorgio Sangiovanni , Björn Trauzettel

A Weyl semimetal possesses spin-polarized band-crossings, called Weyl nodes, connected by topological surface arcs. The low-energy excitations near the crossing points behave the same as massless Weyl fermions, leading to exotic properties…

We present a study of "nodal semimetal" phases, in which non-degenerate conduction and valence bands touch at points (the "Weyl semimetal") or lines (the "line node semimetal") in three-dimensional momentum space. We discuss a general…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 A. A. Burkov , M. D. Hook , Leon Balents

Topological semimetals materialize a new state of quantum matter where massless fermions protected by a specific crystal symmetry host exotic quantum phenomena. Distinct from well-known Dirac and Weyl fermions, structurally-chiral…

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

Weyl semimetals (WSMs), a new type of topological condensed matter, are currently attracting great interest due to their unusual electronic states and intriguing transport properties such as chiral anomaly induced negative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-23 Giacomo Resta , Shu-Ting Pi , Xiangang Wan , Sergey Y. Savrasov

Weyl semimetals (WSMs) have Weyl nodes where conduction and valence bands meet in the absence of inversion or time-reversal symmetry (TRS), or both. Interesting phenomena are expected in WSMs such as the chiral magnetic effect, anomalous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 John W. Villanova , Kyungwha Park

Topological Weyl semimetal (TWS) is a metal, where low energy excitations behave like Weyl fermions of high-energy physics. It was recently shown that due to the lower symmetry of condensed matter systems, they can realize two distinct…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-18 Wenhan Zhang , Quansheng Wu , Lunyong Zhang , Sang-Wook Cheong , Alexey A. Soluyanov , Weida Wu

The Weyl semimetals [1-6] are three-dimensional (3D) gapless topological phases with Weyl cones in the bulk band, and host massless quasiparticles known as Weyl fermions which were theorized by Hermann Weyl in the last twenties [7]. The…

As a special type of collinear antiferromagnetism (AFM), altermagnetism has garnered significant research interest recently. Altermagnets exhibit broken parity-time symmetry and zero net magnetization in real space, leading to substantial…

Magnetic Weyl semimetals (WSM) have recently attracted much attention due to their potential in realizing strong anomalous Hall effects. Yet, how to design such systems remains unclear. Based on first-principles calculations, we show here…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-21 Xiaosong Bai , Yan Wang , Wenwen Yang , Qiunan Xu , Wenjian Liu

A Weyl semimetal (WSM) is a novel topological phase of matter, in which Weyl fermions (WFs) arise as pseudo-magnetic monopoles in its momentum space. The chirality of the WFs, given by the sign of the monopole charge, is central to the Weyl…

Surface Fermi arcs are the most prominent manifestation of the topological nature of Weyl semimetals. In the presence of a static magnetic field oriented perpendicular to the sample surface, their existence leads to unique inter-surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-22 Yuval Baum , Erez Berg , S. A. Parameswaran , Ady Stern