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Quasiparticle interference (QPI) in spectroscopic imaging scanning tunneling microscopy provides a powerful method to detect orbital band structures and orbital ordering patterns in transition metal oxides. We use the $T$-matrix formalism…

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We present a quasiparticle interference study of clean and Mn surface-doped TaAs, a prototypical Weyl semimetal, to test the screening properties as well as the stability of Fermi arcs against Coulomb and magnetic scattering. Contrary to…

Optical interference is not only a fundamental phenomenon that has enabled new theories of light to be derived but it has also been used in interferometry for the measurement of small displacements, refractive index changes and surface…

Optics · Physics 2021-10-28 Chen Yang , Zhi-Yuan Zhou , Yan Li , Shi-Kai Liu , Zheng Ge , Guang-Can Guo , Bao-Sen Shi

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

We report the optical conductivity in high-quality crystals of the chiral topological semimetal CoSi, which hosts exotic quasiparticles known as multifold fermions. We find that the optical response is separated into several distinct…

The surface Fermi arc, as a hallmark of Weyl semimetals (WSMs), has been well known in current research, but it remains a challenge to unveil novel phenomena associated with the Fermi arc. Here, we predict a heretofore unrecognized process…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Jin Cao , Maoyuan Wang , Zhi-Ming Yu , Yugui Yao

Weyl semimetal (WSM) feature tilted Dirac cones and can be type I or II depending on the magnitude of the tilt parameter ($C$). The boundary between the two types is at $C=1$ where the cones are tipped and there is a Lifshitz transition.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-28 S. P. Mukherjee , J. P. Carbotte

Weyl semimetals (WSMs) constitute a 3D phase with linearly-dispersing Weyl excitations at low energy, which lead to unusual electrodynamic responses and open Fermi arcs on boundaries. We derive a simple criterion to identify and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-28 William Witczak-Krempa , Michael Knap , Dmitry Abanin

We study the second-order nonlinear optical response of a Weyl semimetal (WSM), i.e. a three-dimensional metal with linear band touchings acting as point-like sources of Berry curvature in momentum space, termed "Weyl-Berry monopoles". We…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-29 Habib Rostami , Marco Polini

Weyl semimetals are materials with topologically nontrivial band structure both in the bulk and on the surface, hosting chiral nodes which are sinks and sources of Berry curvature. Weyl semimetals have been predicted, and recently measured,…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-29 Christina A. C. Garcia , Jennifer Coulter , Prineha Narang

The exploration of topological phase transition (TPT) mechanisms constitutes a central theme in quantum materials research. Conventionally, transitions between Weyl semimetals (WSMs) and other topological states rely on the breaking of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-12 Huan Li

Weyl semimetals hold great promise in revolutionizing nonreciprocal optical components due to their unique topological properties. By exhibiting nonreciprocal magneto-optical effects without necessitating an external magnetic field, these…

Topological Weyl semimetal (TWS) is a metal, where low energy excitations behave like Weyl fermions of high-energy physics. It was recently shown that due to the lower symmetry of condensed matter systems, they can realize two distinct…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-18 Wenhan Zhang , Quansheng Wu , Lunyong Zhang , Sang-Wook Cheong , Alexey A. Soluyanov , Weida Wu

The peculiar topological properties of Weyl semimetals (WSMs) lead to unusual and unique optical properties. We investigate novel features of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) in a slot waveguide comprised of two semi-infinite WSMs with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-06 S. Oskoui Abdol , B. Abdollahipour , A. Soltani Vala

The recent experimental discovery of a Weyl semimetal in TaAs provides the first observation of a Weyl fermion in nature and demonstrates a novel type of anomalous surface state band structure, consisting of Fermi arcs. So far, work has…

Weyl semimetals exhibit exotic Fermi-arc surface states, which strongly affect their electromagnetic properties. We derive analytical expressions for all components of the composite density-spin response tensor for the surfaces states of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-07 Sayandip Ghosh , Carsten Timm

We study the effects of tunnelling on the band structure and Fermi arc of a time-reversal broken Weyl semimetal (WSM). When coupled to a non-magnetic parabolic band, the WSM's chiral arc state lowers in energy and forms, together with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-24 L. Goutte , T. Pereg-Barnea

A Weyl semimetal (WSM) is a novel topological phase of matter, in which Weyl fermions (WFs) arise as pseudo-magnetic monopoles in its momentum space. The chirality of the WFs, given by the sign of the monopole charge, is central to the Weyl…

Quasi-particle interference (QPI) is a powerful tool to characterize the symmetry of the superconducting order parameter in unconventional superconductors, by mapping the spatial dependence of elastic tunneling of electrons between the tip…

We investigate the dependence of the photogalvanic response of a multi-Weyl semimetal on its topological charge, tilt, and chemical potential. We derive analytical expressions for the shift and injection conductivities for tilted charge-$n$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Arpit Raj , Swati Chaudhary , Gregory A. Fiete