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We study the interplay of disorder and bandstructure topology in a Weyl semimetal with a tilted conical spectrum around the Weyl points. The spectrum of particles is given by the eigenvalues of a non-Hermitian matrix, which contains…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 A. A. Zyuzin , A. Yu. Zyuzin

Physicists have discovered a novel topological semimetal, the Weyl semimetal, whose surface features a non-closed Fermi surface while the low energy quasiparticles in the bulk emerge as Weyl fermions. Here they share a brief review of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-08 Shuang Jia , Su-Yang Xu , M. Zahid Hasan

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

Weyl semimetals host topologically protected surface states, with arced Fermi surface contours that are predicted to propagate through the bulk when their momentum matches that of the surface projections of the bulk's Weyl nodes. We use…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-14 Hiroyuki Inoue , Andras Gyenis , Zhijun Wang , Jian Li , Seong Woo Oh , Shan Jiang , Ni Ni , B. Andrei Bernevig , Ali Yazdani

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

There is an immense effort in search for various types of Weyl semimetals, of which the most fundamental phase consists of the minimal number of i.e. two Weyl points, but is hard to engineer in solids. Here we demonstrate how such…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-11-11 Yue-Hui Lu , Bao-Zong Wang , Xiong-Jun Liu

The Hofstadter butterfly of lattice electrons in a strong magnetic field is a cornerstone of condensed matter physics, exploring the competition between periodicities imposed by the lattice and the field. In this work we introduce and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-12-13 Sthitadhi Roy , Michael Kolodrubetz , Joel E. Moore , Adolfo G. Grushin

The band structure of a crystal may have points where two or more bands are degenerate in energy and where the geometry of the Bloch state manifold is singular, with consequences for material and transport properties. Ultracold atoms in…

We present a semiclassical expansion of the smooth part of the density of states in potentials with some form of symmetry. The density of states of each irreducible representation is separately evaluated using the Wigner transforms of the…

chao-dyn · Physics 2016-08-31 B. Lauritzen , N. D. Whelan

There is considerable current interest to explore electronic topology in strongly correlated metals, with heavy fermion systems providing a promising setting. Recently, a Weyl-Kondo semimetal phase has been concurrently discovered in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-01 Sarah E. Grefe , Hsin-Hua Lai , Silke Paschen , Qimiao Si

We prove a sharp Weyl estimate for the number of eigenvalues belonging to a fixed interval of energy of a self-adjoint difference operator acting on $\ell^2(\epsilon\mathbb{Z}^d)$ if the associated symplectic volume of phase space in…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Markus Klein , Enrico Reiss , Elke Rosenberger

Fermi arc surface states, the manifestation of the bulk-edge correspondence in Weyl semimetals, have attracted much research interest. In contrast to the conventional Fermi loop, the disconnected Fermi arcs provide an exotic 2D system for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Xi-Rong Chen , Guangze Chen , Yue Zheng , Wei Chen , D. Y. Xing

We theoretically study the single particle Green function of a three dimensional disordered Weyl semimetal using a combination of techniques. These include analytic $T$-matrix and renormalization group methods with complementary regimes of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-06-15 J. H. Pixley , Yang-Zhi Chou , Pallab Goswami , David A. Huse , Rahul Nandkishore , Leo Radzihovsky , S. Das Sarma

We study the hydrodynamic transport of electrons in a Weyl semimetal in a strong magnetic field. Impurity scattering in a Weyl semimetal with two Weyl nodes is strongly anisotropic as a function of the direction of the field and is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Siyu Zhu , Grigory Bednik , Sergey Syzranov

Weyl semimetals are topological materials whose electron quasiparticles obey the Weyl equation. They possess many unusual properties that may lead to new applications. This is a tutorial review of the optical properties and applications of…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-13 Cheng Guo , Viktar S. Asadchy , Bo Zhao , Shanhui Fan

Based on $ab$ $initio$ calculations and low-energy effective $k{\cdot}p$ model, we propose a type of Weyl nodal point-line fermion, composed of 0D Weyl points and 1D Weyl nodal line, in ferromagnetic material Eu$_5$Bi$_3$. In the absence of…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-13 Hongbo Wu , Da-Shuai Ma , Botao Fu , Wei Guo , Yugui Yao

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 semimetals are extraordinary systems where exotic phenomena such as Fermi arcs, pseudo-gauge fields and quantum anomalies arise from topological band degeneracy in crystalline solids for electrons and metamaterials for photons and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Li Luo , Hai-Xiao Wang , Bin Jiang , Ying Wu , Zhi-Kang Lin , Feng Li , Jian-Hua Jiang

Weyl nodal loop semimetals are gapless topological phases that, unlike their insulator counterparts, may be unstable to small perturbations that respect their topology-protecting symmetries. Here, we analyze a clean system perturbed by…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-02-07 João S. Silva , Miguel Gonçalves , Eduardo V. Castro , Pedro Ribeiro , Miguel A. N. Araújo

Weyl fermions as emergent quasiparticles can arise in Weyl semimetals (WSMs) in which the energy bands are nondegenerate, resulting from inversion or time-reversal symmetry breaking. Nevertheless, experimental evidence for magnetically…