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In this work, chiral anomalies and Drude enhancement in Weyl semimetals are separately discussed from a semi-classical and quantum perspective, clarifying the physics behind Weyl semimetals while avoiding explicit use of topological…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-02-02 Antonio Levy , Albert F. Rigosi , Francois Joint , Gregory S. Jenkins

In this review we discuss a wide range of topological properties of electron quasiparticles in Dirac and Weyl semimetals. Their nontrivial topology is quantified by a monopole-like Berry curvature in the vicinity of Weyl nodes, as well as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-26 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , P. O. Sukhachov

We compare two crystallographic phases of the low-dimensional WP$_2$ to better understand features of electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions in topological systems. The topological $\beta$-phase, a Weyl semimetal with a giant…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-19 Dirk Wulferding , Peter Lemmens , Florian Büscher , David Schmeltzer , Claudia Felser , Chandra Shekhar

We report a polarized Raman study of Weyl semimetal TaAs. We observe all the optical phonons, with energies and symmetries consistent with our first-principles calculations. We detect additional excitations assigned to multiple-phonon…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-08-12 H. W. Liu , P. Richard , Z. D. Song , L. X. Zhao , Z. Fang , G. -F. Chen , H. Ding

We investigate the dynamics of the Weyl quasiparticles emerged in an optical lattice where the topological Weyl semimental and trivial band insulator phases can be adjusted with the on-site energy. The evolution of the density distribution…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-10-19 Zhi Li , Huai-Qiang Wang , Dan-Wei Zhang , Shi-Liang Zhu , Ding-Yu Xing

In the present paper, we propose that the chiral magnetic effect, the direct consequence of the presence of Weyl points in the band structure, can be detected by its coupling to certain phonon modes, which behave like pseudo scalars under…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-28 Zhida Song , Jimin Zhao , Zhong Fang , Xi Dai

In electronics systems, the Weyl points can be classified into three types based on the geometry of the Fermi surface, and each type exhibits various unique and intriguing phenomena. While the type-I and type-II Weyl points have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Xiao-Ping Li , Feng Li , Di Zhou , Ying Wu , Zhi-Ming Yu , Yugui Yao

We study the transport properties and superconducting proximity effect in NSN junctions formed by a time-reversal symmetry broken Weyl semimetal (WSM) in proximity to an $s$-wave superconductor. We find that the differential conductance and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-07-02 Daniel Breunig , Song-Bo Zhang , Martin Stehno , Björn Trauzettel

The separation of the Weyl nodes in a broken time-reversal symmetric Weyl semimetal leads to helical quasi-particle excitations at the Weyl nodes, which, when coupled with overall spin conservation allows only inter-nodal transport at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 Udit Khanna , Dibya Kanti Mukherjee , Arijit Kundu , Sumathi Rao

The electron-phonon interaction (EPI) is instrumental in a wide variety of phenomena in solid-state physics, such as electrical resistivity in metals, carrier mobility, optical transition and polaron effects in semiconductors, lifetime of…

We present how to detect type-$1$ Weyl nodes in a material by inelastic neutron scattering. Such an experiment first of all allows one to determine the dispersion of the Weyl fermions. We extend the reasoning to produce a quantitative test…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Michael Bjerngaard , Bogdan Galilo , Ari M. Turner

Dirac and Weyl nodal materials can host low-energy relativistic quasiparticles. Under strong magnetic fields, the topological properties of Dirac/Weyl materials can directly manifest through quantum Hall states. However, most Dirac/Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Gang Qiu , Chang Niu , Yixiu Wang , Mengwei Si , Zhuocheng Zhang , Wenzhuo Wu , Peide D. Ye

Chiral properties have seen increasing use in recent years, leading to the emerging fields of chiral quantum optics, plasmonics, and phononics. While these fields have achieved manipulation of the chirality of light and lattice vibrations,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-08 Carl P. Romao , Dominik M. Juraschek

Weyl semimetals are prominent examples of topologically protected quantum matter. These materials are the three-dimensional counterparts of graphene and great efforts are being devoted to achieve a thorough understanding of their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-05 A. Díaz-Fernández , F. Domínguez-Adame , O. de Abril

Weyl electrons are intensely studied due to novel charge transport phenomena such as chiral anomaly, Fermi arcs, and photogalvanic effect. Recent theoretical works suggest that Weyl electrons can also participate in magnetic interactions,…

Perfect circular dichroism has been observed in the Raman scattering by the optical phonons in single chiral domain NiCo2TeO6 crystals. The selection rules for the optical phonons are determined by the combination of the chiral structure C…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-31 V. A. Martinez , Y. Gao , J. Yang , F. Lyzwa , Z. Liu , C. J. Won , K. Du , V. Kiryukhin , S-W. Cheong , A. A. Sirenko

The term Weyl semimetal originates from the fact that its energy dispersion obeys a Weyl equation. However, a Weyl equation itself cannot fully describe the electron states in an actual bounded geometry. For example, the appearance of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-16 Yositake Takane

We predict a nonlinear Hall effect in certain Weyl semimetals with broken inversion symmetry. When the energy dispersions about pairs of Weyl nodes are skewed -- the Weyl cones are "tilted" -- the concerted actions of the anomalous velocity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-19 Rui-Hao Li , Olle G. Heinonen , Anton A. Burkov , Steven S. -L. Zhang

Chiral phonons, quantized lattice vibrations with circular polarization and non-zero angular momentum, offer new perspectives for phononic and quantum device engineering. Graphyne could be a promising candidate due to its unique lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 Subhendu Mishra , Arpan Chakraborty , Douglas S. Galvao , Pedro A. S. Autreto , Abhishek Kumar Singh

Exotic topological and transport properties of Weyl semimetals generated a lot of excitement in the condensed matter community. Here we show that Weyl semimetals in a strong magnetic field are highly unusual optical materials. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Zhongqu Long , Yongrui Wang , Maria Erukhimova , Mikhail Tokman , Alexey Belyanin