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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

A Weyl semimetal is a new state of matter that host Weyl fermions as quasiparticle excitations. The Weyl fermions at zero energy correspond to points of bulk band degeneracy, Weyl nodes, which are separated in momentum space and are…

Three-dimensional Weyl semimetals have pairs of topologically protected Weyl nodes, whose projections onto the surface Brillouin zone are the end points of zero energy surface states called Fermi arcs. At the endpoints of the Fermi arcs,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Faruk Abdulla , Sumathi Rao , Ganpathy Murthy

Using first-principles electronic structure calculations, we show that ferromagnetic Heusler compounds Co$_2$MnX (X= Si, Ge, Sn) present non-trivial topological characteristics and belong to the category of Weyl semimetals. These materials…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-30 Abhishek Sharan , Felipe Crasto de Lima , Shoaib Khalid , Roberto H. Miwa , Anderson Janotti

We study the low-energy single-electron transport across a junction of two magnetic Weyl semimetals, in which the anisotropy axes are tilted one respect to the other. Using a two-band model with a potential step, we compute the transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-15 Francesco Buccheri , Reinhold Egger , Alessandro De Martino

Weyl semimetals in three-dimensional crystals provide the paradigm example of topologically protected band nodes. It is usually taken for granted that a pair of colliding Weyl points annihilate whenever they carry opposite chiral charge. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 Adrien Bouhon , QuanSheng Wu , Robert-Jan Slager , Hongming Weng , Oleg V. Yazyev , Tomáš Bzdušek

A developing frontier in condensed matter physics is the emergence of novel electromagnetic responses, such as topological and anomalous Hall effect (AHE), in ferromagnetic Weyl semimetals (FM-WSMs). Candidates of FM-WSM are limited to…

Ideal Weyl semimetals with all Weyl nodes exactly at the Fermi level and no coexisting trivial Fermi surfaces in the bulk, similar to graphene, could feature deep physics such as exotic transport phenomena induced by the chiral anomaly.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-06 Jiawei Ruan , Shao-Kai Jian , Hong Yao , Haijun Zhang , Shou-Cheng Zhang , Dingyu Xing

Weyl semimetals are recently discovered materials supporting emergent relativistic fermions in the vicinity of band-crossing points known as Weyl nodes. The positions of the nodes and the low-energy spectrum depend sensitively on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Alex Westström , Teemu Ojanen

There is a close connection between various new phenomena in Weyl semimetals and the existence of linear band crossings in the single particle description. We show, by a full self-consistent mean-field calculation, how this picture is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-29 Fei Xue , Xiao-Xiao Zhang

Based on irreducible representations (or symmetry eigenvalues) and compatibility relations, a material can be predicted to be a topological/trivial insulator [satisfying compatibility relations] or a topological semimetal [violating…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-23 Jiacheng Gao , Yuting Qian , Simin Nie , Zhong Fang , Hongming Weng , Zhijun Wang

Weyl fermions1 do not appear in nature as elementary particles, but they are now found to exist as nodal points in the band structure of electronic and classical wave crystals. Novel phenomena such as Fermi arcs and chiral anomaly have…

Optics · Physics 2016-10-17 Qiang Wang , Meng Xiao , Hui Liu , Xiangang Wan , Shining Zhu , C. T. Chan

Magnetic topological semimetals (TSMs) are topological quantum materials with broken time-reversal symmetry (TRS) and isolated nodal points or lines near the Fermi level. Their topological properties would typically reveal from the…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-10-08 Jinyu Zou , Zhuoran He , Gang Xu

One of the main features of Weyl semimetals is the existence of Fermi arc surface states at their surface, which cannot be realized in pure two-dimensional systems in the absence of many-body interactions. Due to the gapless bulk of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Guangze Chen , Oded Zilberberg , Wei Chen

Three dimensional Weyl semimetals exhibit open Fermi arcs on their sample surfaces connecting the projection of bulk Weyl points of opposite chirality. The canonical interpretation of these surfaces states is in terms of chiral edge modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 Valerio Peri , Sebastian D. Huber

Magnetic Weyl semimetals (MWSM) have attracted significant attention due to their intriguing physical properties and potential applications in spin-electronic devices. Here we report the characterization of NdAlSi including transport,…

Weyl semimetals have been classified into type-I and type-II with respect to the geometry of their Fermi surfaces at the Weyl points. Here, we propose a new class of Weyl semimetal, whose unique Fermi surface contains two electron or two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-29 Xiao-Ping Li , Ke Deng , Botao Fu , YongKai Li , DaShuai Ma , JunFeng Han , Jianhui Zhou , Shuyun Zhou , Yugui Yao

Chiral fermions in solid state feature "Fermi arc" states, connecting the surface projections of the bulk chiral nodes. The surface Fermi arc is a signature of nontrivial bulk topology. Unconventional chiral fermions with an extensive Fermi…

Recently, time-reversal symmetry broken magnetic Weyl semimetals (WSMs) have attracted extensive attention and have provided an intriguing platform for exploring fundamental physical phenomena. The study of chromium telluride-based systems…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-26 Anumita Bose , Shubham Purwar , Setti Thirupathaiah , Awadhesh Narayan

Weyl semimetals and nodal line semimetals are characterized by linear electronic bands touching at zero-dimensional points and one-dimensional lines, respectively. Recently, it has been predicted that nodal line semimetals can be driven…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-11 F. Bonasera , S. -B. Zhang , L. Privitera , F. M. D. Pellegrino