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Weyl semimetals are phases of matter with gapless electronic excitations that are protected by topology and symmetry. Their properties depend on the dimensions of the systems. It has been theoretically demonstrated that five-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-20 Xingen Zheng , Tian Chen , Weixuan Zhang , Houjun Sun , Xiangdong Zhang

Systems with strong spin-orbit coupling, which competes with other interactions and energy scales, offer a fertile playground to explore new correlated phases of matter. Weyl semimetals are an example where the phenomenon leads to a low…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-13 Huazhou Wei , Sung-Po Chao , Vivek Aji

Quasicrystals allow for symmetries that are impossible in crystalline materials, such as eight-fold rotational symmetry, enabling the existence of novel higher-order topological insulators in two dimensions without crystalline counterparts.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-13 Yu-Feng Mao , Yu-Liang Tao , Jiong-Hao Wang , Qi-Bo Zeng , Yong Xu

This work reports the general design and characterization of two exotic, anomalous nonequilibrium topological phases. In equilibrium systems, the Weyl nodes or the crossing points of nodal lines may become the transition points between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Weiwei Zhu , Muhammad Umer , Jiangbin Gong

We present a physical scenario in which both Fermi arcs and two-dimensional gapless Dirac states coexist as boundary modes at the same two-dimensional surface. This situation is realized in topological insulator-Weyl semimetal interfaces in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-29 Adolfo G. Grushin , Jörn W. F. Venderbos , Jens H. Bardarson

We show the occurence of Dirac, Triple point, Weyl semimetal and topological insulating phase in a single ternary compound using specific symmetry preserving perturbations. Based on {\it first principle} calculations, \textbf{\textit{k.p}}…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-05-15 Chiranjit Mondal , C. K. Barman , Aftab Alam , Biswarup Pathak

We introduce (3+1) dimensional models of short-range-interacting electrons that form a strongly correlated many-body state whose low-energy excitations are relativistic neutral fermions coupled to an emergent gauge field, $\text{QED}_{4}$.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-21 Eran Sagi , Ady Stern , David F. Mross

Topological semimetals, such as Dirac, Weyl, or line-node semimetals, are gapless states of matter characterized by their nodal band structures and surface states. In this work, we consider layered (topologically trivial) insulating systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-12 Saavanth Velury , Taylor L. Hughes

We present a new type of three-dimensional essential Dirac semimetal with magnetic ordering. The Dirac points are protected by the magnetic space groups and cannot be gapped without lowering such symmetries, where the combined antiunitary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-05 Jing Wang

Three-dimensional higher-order topological semimetals in crystalline systems exhibit higher-order Fermi arcs on one-dimensional hinges, challenging the conventional bulk-boundary correspondence. However, the existence of higher-order Fermi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Rui Chen , Bin Zhou , Dong-Hui Xu

Topologically protected fermionic quasiparticles occur in metals with band degeneracy as a consequence of band structure topology. Here we unveil topological semimetal and metal phases in a variety of non-symmorphic collinear…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-12 Wojciech Brzezicki , Mario Cuoco

Weyl semimetals (WSMs) are characterized by topologically stable pairs of nodal points in the band structure, that typically originate from splitting a degenerate Dirac point by breaking symmetries such as time reversal or inversion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-29 L. Crippa , A. Amaricci , N. Wagner , G. Sangiovanni , J. C. Budich , M. Capone

The search for artificial structure with tunable topological properties is an interesting research direction of today's topological physics. Here, we introduce a scheme to realize `topological semimetal states' with a three-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-11 Kaifa Luo , Rui Yu , Hongming Weng

The realization of Dirac and Weyl physics in solids has made topological materials one of the main focuses of condensed matter physics. Recently, the topic of topological nodal line semimetals, materials in which Dirac or Weyl-like…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-13 Shuo-Ying Yang , Hao Yang , Elena Derunova , Stuart S. P. Parkin , Binghai Yan , Mazhar N. Ali

We propose a theoretical scheme to realize two-dimensional higher-order Weyl semimetals using a trilayer topological insulator film coupled with a d-wave altermagnet. Our results show that the trilayer topological insulator exhibits…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Lizhou Liu , Qing-Feng Sun , Ying-Tao Zhang

This work explores the topological phase diagram of inverted-band-gap semiconductors under strain and spin-orbit coupling. Using a minimalistic Luttinger Hamiltonian model, we follow the transitions between a 3D topological insulator, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Vitaly N. Golovach , Alexander Khaetskii

Topological semimetals are a frontier of quantum materials. In multi-band electronic systems, topological band-crossings can form closed curves, known as nodal lines. In the presence of spin-orbit coupling and/or symmetry-breaking…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-22 Tiantian Zhang , T. Yilmaz , E. Vescovo , H. X. Li , R. G. Moore , H. N. Lee , H. Miao , S. Murakami , M. A. McGuire

Higher-order Weyl semimetals are a family of recently predicted topological phases simultaneously showcasing unconventional properties derived from Weyl points, such as chiral anomaly, and multidimensional topological phenomena originating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-06 Yuang Pan , Chaoxi Cui , Qiaolu Chen , Fujia Chen , Li Zhang , Yudong Ren , Ning Han , Wenhao Li , Xinrui Li , Zhi-Ming Yu , Hongsheng Chen , Yihao Yang

Topological features of possible three-dimensional (3D) states in \alpha-type layered organic conductors are investigated within a unified framework based on Wannier charge centers (WCCs), aiming to identify their actual topological states.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Toshihito Osada

We employed the self-consistent method on a two-orbital type-II time-reversal-symmetric Weyl semimetal, revealing a hybrid pairing of singlet $s$-wave and triplet $p$-wave. We present a detailed analysis of the normal-state electronic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-02 Junkang Huang , Z. D. Wang , Tao Zhou