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In three-dimensional noncentrosymmetric materials two-fold screw rotation symmetry forces electron's energy bands to have Weyl points at which two bands touch. This is illustrated for space groups No. 19 ($P2_12_12_1$) and No. 198…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-06-09 Akira Furusaki

Weyl semimetals are examples of a new class of topological states of matter which are gapless in the bulk with protected surface states. Their low energy sector is characterized by massless chiral fermions which are robust against…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-22 Michael Phillips , Vivek Aji

For the solid state physics, recent interest to topological systems is mostly connected with topological semimetals, in particular, to Weyl ones as the most representative semimetal type. Like other topological materials, e.g. topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 E. V. Deviatov

Topological matter is known to exhibit unconventional surface states and anomalous transport owing to unusual bulk electronic topology. In this study, we use photoemission spectroscopy and quantum transport to elucidate the topology of the…

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

Exhaustive study of topological semimetal phases of matter in equilibriated electonic systems and myriad extensions has built upon the foundations laid by earlier introduction and study of the Weyl semimetal, with broad applications in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-23 Adipta Pal , Joe H. Winter , Ashley M. Cook

To date, almost all of the discussions on topological insulators (TIs) have focused on two- and three-dimensional systems. One-dimensional (1D) TIs manifested in real materials, in which localized spin states may exist at the end or near…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-18 Kuan-Sen Lin , Mei-Yin Chou

In this work we predict a family of noncentrosymmetric two-dimensional (2D) Weyl semimetals composed by porous Ge and SiGe structures. These systems are energetically stable graphenylene-like structures with a buckling, spontaneously…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-06 Emmanuel V. C. Lopes , Rogerio J. Baierle , Roberto H. Miwa , Tome M. Schmidt

A possible connection between extremely large magneto-resistance and the presence of Weyl points has garnered much attention in the study of topological semimetals. Exploration of these concepts in transition metal phosphide WP2 has been…

We investigate the topological protection of surface states in Weyl and nodal-line semimetals by characterizing them as evanescent states when the band structure is extended to complex momenta. We find in this way a sequence of exceptional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-09 J. Gonzalez , R. A. Molina

Fully gapped two-dimensional superconductors coupled to dynamical electromagnetism are known to exhibit topological order. In this work, we develop a unified low-energy description for spin-singlet paired states by deriving topological…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-01-17 Sergej Moroz , Abhinav Prem , Victor Gurarie , Leo Radzihovsky

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

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

We introduce the concept of boundary degeneracy of topologically ordered states on a compact orientable spatial manifold with boundaries, and emphasize that the boundary degeneracy provides richer information than the bulk degeneracy.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-08 Juven Wang , Xiao-Gang Wen

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

We generalize the concept of three-dimensional topological Weyl semimetal to a class of five dimensional (5D) gapless solids, where Weyl points are generalized to Weyl surfaces which are two-dimensional closed manifolds in the momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-06 Biao Lian , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Weyl degeneracies in spectra of magnetoplasma waves enable nonreciprocal energy flow and topologically protected modes, yet conventional materials require impractical magnetic fields to operate. Developing an effective Hamiltonian framework…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Yuanzhao Wang , Oleg V. Kotov , Dmitry K. Efimkin

In recent years there has been a great interest in topological photonics and protected edge states. Here, we present a first principles method to compute topological invariants of three-dimensional gapless phases. Our approach allows to…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-30 G. R. Fonseca , F. R. Prudêncio , M. G. Silveirinha , P. A. Huidobro

Despite the tremendous interest raised by the recent realization of magnetic Weyl semimetals and the observation of giant anomalous Hall signals, most of the theories used to interpret experimental data overlook the influence of magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Konstantinos Sourounis , Aurélien Manchon

We present a study of "nodal semimetal" phases, in which non-degenerate conduction and valence bands touch at points (the "Weyl semimetal") or lines (the "line node semimetal") in three-dimensional momentum space. We discuss a general…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 A. A. Burkov , M. D. Hook , Leon Balents