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Two-dimensional topological edge states, immunizing against defects and disorders, have greatly revolutionized our scientific cognition on propagation and scattering of acoustic waves. Recently, the similar states have been predicted in…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-13 Tingting Liu , Shengjie Zheng , Hongqing Dai , Dejie Yu , Baizhan Xia

Weyl-semimetal superstructures with a spiraling position of a pair of Weyl nodes of opposite chirality can host a chiral-symmetry preserving Fermi-arc metal state, where the chirality is carried by cylindrical Fermi surfaces, electron- and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 Tommy Li , Maxim Breitkreiz

Multi-Weyl semimetals are a kind of topological phase of matter with discrete Weyl nodes characterized by multiple monopole charges, in which the chiral anomaly, the anomalous nonconservation of an axial current, occurs in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-09 Ze-Min Huang , Jianhui Zhou , Shun-Qing Shen

Nodal lines are one-dimensional topological features of semi-metal band structures along which two bands are degenerate as a result of non-accidental symmetry-protected crossings, and behave topologically as $k$-space vortices in the Berry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Oliver Dowinton , Rodion Vladimirovich Belosludov , Mohammad Saeed Bahramy

We study superconductivity in a Weyl semimetal with broken time-reversal symmetry and stabilized by a point-group symmetry. The resulting superconducting phase is characterized by topologically protected bulk nodes and surface states with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Vasudha Shivamoggi , Matthew J. Gilbert

High-order topological charge is of intensive interest in the field of topological matters. In real materials, cubic Dirac point is rare and the chiral charge of one Weyl point (WP) has never be found to exceed |C| = 3 for spin- 1/2…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-04 Peng-Jen Chen , Wan-Ju Li , Ting-Kuo Lee

The recent discoveries of ferroelectric metal and Weyl semimetal (WSM) have stimulated a natural question: whether these two exotic states of matter can coexist in a single material or not. These two discoveries ensure us that physically it…

Recently, Weyl semimetals have been experimentally discovered in both inversion-symmetry-breaking and time-reversal-symmetry-breaking crystals. The non-trivial topology in Weyl semimetals can manifest itself with exotic phenomena which have…

Topological phases of matter exhibit phase transitions between distinct topological classes. These phase transitions are exotic in that they do not fall within the traditional Ginzburg-Landau paradigm but are instead associated with changes…

Weyl points and line nodes are three-dimensional linear point- and line-degeneracies between two bands. In contrast to Dirac points, which are their two-dimensional analogues, Weyl points are stable in the momentum space and the associated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-29 Ling Lu , Liang Fu , John D. Joannopoulos , Marin Soljačić

Weyl semimetals are gapless quasi-topological materials with a set of isolated nodal points forming their Fermi surface. They manifest their quasi-topological character in a series of topological electromagnetic responses including the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-05 Hassan Shapourian , Taylor L. Hughes

Nontrivial topology in condensed matter systems enriches quantum states of matter, to go beyond either the classification into metals and insulators in terms of conventional band theory or that of symmetry broken phases by Landau's order…

By using first-principles calculations, we propose that WC-type ZrTe is a new type of topological semimetal (TSM). It has six pairs of chiral Weyl nodes in its first Brillouin zone, but it is distinguished from other existing TSMs by having…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 Hongming Weng , Chen Fang , Zhong Fang , Xi Dai

Weyl semimetals are three-dimensional topological states of matter, in a sense that they host paired monopoles and antimonopoles of Berry curvature in momentum space, leading to the chiral anomaly. The chiral anomaly has long been believed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Hai-Zhou Lu , Song-Bo Zhang , Shun-Qing Shen

Weyl fermions can be created in materials with both time reversal and inversion symmetry by applying a magnetic field, as evidenced by recent measurements of anomalous negative magnetoresistance. Here, we do a thorough analysis of the Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 Jennifer Cano , Barry Bradlyn , Zhijun Wang , Max Hirschberger , N. P. Ong , B. A. Bernevig

Weyl semimetal is a topologically non-trivial phase of matter with pairs of Weyl nodes in the k-space, which act as monopole and anti-monopole pairs of Berry curvature. Two hallmarks of the Weyl metallic state are the topological surface…

Weyl semimetals are a three dimensional topological phase of matter with linearly dispersed Weyl points which appear in pairs and carry opposite chirality. The separation of paired Weyl points allows charge transfer between them in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-08 Salah Uddin , Wenye Duan , Jun Wang , Zhongshui Ma , Jun-Feng Liu

Weyl nodes have been experimentally realized in photonic, electronic, and phononic crystals. However, magnonic Weyl nodes are yet to be seen experimentally. In this paper, we propose Weyl magnon nodes in noncoplanar stacked frustrated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-14 S. A. Owerre

The Weyl semimetal phase is a recently discovered topological quantum state of matter characterized by the presence of topologically protected degeneracies near the Fermi level. These degeneracies are the source of exotic phenomena,…

The recent discovery of Weyl fermions in solids enables exploitation of relativistic physics and development of a spectrum of intriguing physical phenomena. They are constituted of pairs of Weyl points with two-fold band degeneracy, which…