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Numerous efforts have been devoted to reveal exotic semimetallic phases with topologically non-trivial bulk and/or surface states in materials with strong spin-orbit coupling. In particular, semimetals with nodal line Fermi surface (FS)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-04-22 Yige Chen , Heung-Sik Kim , Hae-Young Kee

Weyl semimetal is a new quantum state of matter [1-12] hosting the condensed matter physics counterpart of relativisticWeyl fermion [13] originally introduced in high energy physics. The Weyl semimetal realized in the TaAs class features…

Non-symmorphic chiral topological crystals host exotic multifold fermions, and their associated Fermi arcs helically wrap around and expand throughout the Brillouin zone between the high-symmetry center and surface-corner momenta. However,…

Spin-momentum locking in solids describes a directional relationship between the electron's spin angular momentum and its linear momentum over the entire Fermi surface. While orthogonal spin-momentum locking, such as Rashba spin-orbit…

Magnetic topological materials and their physical signatures are a focus of current research. Here, by first-principles calculations and symmetry analysis, we reveal topological semimetal states in an existing antiferromagnet ThMn2Si2.…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-24 Ziming Zhu , Huiying Liu , Yongheng Ge , Zeying Zhang , Weikang Wu , Cong Xiao , Shengyuan A. Yang

Topology and chirality of fermionic quasiparticles have enabled exciting discoveries, including quantum anomalous Hall liquids and topological superconductivity. Recently, topological and chiral phonons emerge as new and fast-evolving…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-16 Tiantian Zhang , Shuichi Murakami , Hu Miao

We report a study of the Fermi surface of the chiral semimetal CoSi and its relationship to a network of multifold topological crossing points,Weyl points, and topological nodal planes in the electronic band structure. Combining quantum…

We show that for two-band systems nonsymmorphic symmetries may enforce the existence of band crossings in the bulk, which realize Fermi surfaces of reduced dimensionality. We find that these unavoidable crossings originate from the momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-07 Y. X. Zhao , Andreas P. Schnyder

Novel fermions with relativistic linear dispersion can emerge as low-energy excitations in topological semimetal materials. Here, we show that the orbital moment contribution in the circular photomagnetic effect for these topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-12 Jin Cao , Chuanchang Zeng , Xiao-Ping Li , Maoyuan Wang , Shengyuan A. Yang , Zhi-Ming Yu , Yugui Yao

It is generally believed that there is a correspondence between the topological charge of nodal points or lines and the presence of Fermi arcs. Using a $\mathcal{P}\mathcal{T}$-invariant system as an example, we demonstrate that this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-25 Xue-Min Yang , Jiang-Shan Chen , Ying Chen , Yu-Hang Qin , Hong Wu

The past decades have witnessed a transformation in characterizing condensed matter systems with topology. Aided by a refined understanding of topological band structures with crystalline symmetries that has emerged recently, many…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-12 Lin-Lin Wang , Hoi Chun Po , Robert-Jan Slager , Ashvin Vishwanath

This paper is devoted to topological phenomena in normal metals with rather complicated Fermi surface. The results of the article are based on the deep topological theorems concerning the geometry of non-compact plane sections of level…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 S. P. Novikov , A. Ya. Maltsev

Insulating states can be topologically nontrivial, a well-established notion that is exemplified by the quantum Hall effect and topological insulators. By contrast, topological metals have not been experimentally evidenced until recently.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-09 Hsin-Hua Lai , Sarah E. Grefe , Silke Paschen , Qimiao Si

Topology, a mathematical concept, has recently become a popular and truly transdisciplinary topic encompassing condensed matter physics, solid state chemistry, and materials science. Since there is a direct connection between real space,…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-23 Nitesh Kumar , Satya N. Guin , Kaustuv Manna , Chandra Shekhar , Claudia Felser

The topological nodal-line semimetal state, serving as a fertile ground for various topological quantum phases, where a topological insulator, Dirac semimetal, or Weyl semimetal can be realized when the certain protecting symmetry is…

We consider the dimensional crossover in the topological matter, which involves the transformation of different types of topologically protected zeroes in the fermionic spectrum. In the considered case, the multiple Dirac (Fermi) point in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-06-24 Tero T. Heikkilä , G. E. Volovik

Electron correlations amplify quantum fluctuations and, as such, they have been recognized as the origin of a rich landscape of quantum phases. Whether and how they lead to gapless topological states is an outstanding question, and a…

The three-dimensional topological semimetals represent a new quantum state of matter. Distinct from the surface state in the topological insulators that exhibits linear dispersion in two-dimensional momentum plane, the three-dimensional…

Topological materials discovery has evolved at a rapid pace over the past 15 years following the identification of the first nonmagnetic topological insulators (TIs), topological crystalline insulators (TCIs), and 3D topological semimetals…

Higher-order topology yields intriguing multidimensional topological phenomena, while Weyl semimetals have unconventional properties such as chiral anomaly. However, so far, Weyl physics remain disconnected with higher-order topology. Here,…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-07 Hai-Xiao Wang , Zhi-Kang Lin , Bin Jiang , Guang-Yu Guo , Jian-Hua Jiang