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This study presents Fermi-arcs mediated transport in a Weyl semimetal thin slab, interfacing two $s$-wave superconductors. We present detailed study with both time-reversal and inversion symmetry broken Weyl semimetals under grounding,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-29 Rekha Kumari , Dibya Kanti Mukherjee , Arijit Kundu

Topological Weyl semimetals represent a novel class of non-trivial materials, where band crossings with linear dispersions take place at generic momenta across reciprocal space. These crossings give rise to low-energy properties akin to…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-12 Davide Grassano , Nicola Marzari , Davide Campi

Three-dimensional (3D) topological Weyl semimetals (TWSs) represent a novel state of quantum matter with unusual electronic structures that resemble both a "3D graphene" and a topological insulator by possessing pairs of Weyl points…

The topology of the Fermi surface significantly influences the transport properties of a material. Firstly measured through quantum oscillation experiments, the Fermi surfaces of crystals are now commonly characterized using angle-resolved…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-22 F. Balduini , L. Rocchino , A. Molinari , T. Paul , G. Mariani , V. Hasse , C. Felser , C. Zota , H. Schmid , B. Gotsmann

We study the topological properties of 3D Floquet bandstructures, which are defined using unitary evolution matrices rather than Hamiltonians. Previously, 2D bandstructures of this sort have been shown to exhibit anomalous topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 Hailong Wang , Longwen Zhou , Yidong Chong

The hallmark of Weyl semimetals is the existence of open constant-energy contours on their surface -- the so-called Fermi arcs -- connecting Weyl points. Here, we show that for time-reversal symmetric realizations of Weyl semimetals these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-21 Alexander Lau , Klaus Koepernik , Jeroen van den Brink , Carmine Ortix

For the application of topological materials, the specific location of their topological surface states with respect to the Fermi level are important. {\gamma}-PtBi2 has been demonstrated to be a Weyl semimetal possessing superconducting…

Using first-principles electronic structure calculations, we show that ferromagnetic Heusler compounds Co$_2$MnX (X= Si, Ge, Sn) present non-trivial topological characteristics and belong to the category of Weyl semimetals. These materials…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-30 Abhishek Sharan , Felipe Crasto de Lima , Shoaib Khalid , Roberto H. Miwa , Anderson Janotti

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…

Topological band theory has revolutionized our understanding of electronic structure of materials, in particular, a novel state - Weyl semimetal - has been predicted for systems with strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC). Here, a new class of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-20 Yuanping Chen , Yuee Xie , Shengyuan A. Yang , Hui Pan , Fan Zhang , Marvin L. Cohen , Shengbai Zhang

Classification of topological insulators and superconductors is manifested in terms of spin cobordism groups for lower dimensions. It is discussed that the periodic table of topological insulators is a result of the possible choices of spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-02 Ümit Ertem

The surface Fermi arc states in $Z_2$ Weyl semimetals $A_3 Bi$ (A=Na, K, Rb) are studied by employing a continuum low-energy effective model. It is shown that the surface Fermi arc states can be classified with respect to the ud-parity…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-24 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , P. O. Sukhachov

Topologically protected fermionic quasiparticles appear in metals, where band degeneracies occur at the Fermi level, dictated by the band structure topology. While in some metals these quasiparticles are direct analogues of elementary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-11 Ziming Zhu , Georg W. Winkler , QuanSheng Wu , Ju Li , Alexey A. Soluyanov

Impurities act as in situ probes of nontrivial electronic structure, causing real-space modulations in the density of states detected by scanning tunneling spectroscopy on the sample surface. We show that distinctive topological features of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-27 Andrew K. Mitchell , Lars Fritz

We discover three-dimensional intertwined Weyl phases, by developing a theory to create topological phases. The theory is based on intertwining existing topological gapped and gapless phases protected by the same crystalline symmetry. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 W. B. Rui , Zhen Zheng , Moritz M. Hirschmann , Song-Bo Zhang , Chenjie Wang , Z. D. Wang

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

We re-examine the question of quantum oscillations from surface Fermi arcs and chiral modes in Weyl semimetals. By introducing two tools - semiclassical phase-space quantization and a numerical implementation of a layered construction of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-14 Yi Zhang , Daniel Bulmash , Pavan Hosur , Andrew C. Potter , Ashvin Vishwanath

The quantum Hall effect is usually observed in 2D systems. We show that the Fermi arcs can give rise to a distinctive 3D quantum Hall effect in topological semimetals. Because of the topological constraint, the Fermi arc at a single surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-05 C. M. Wang , Hai-Peng Sun , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

Dirac semi-metals show a linear electronic dispersion in three dimension described by two copies of the Weyl equation, a theoretical description of massless relativistic fermions. At the surface of a crystal, the breakdown of fermion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-25 Philip J. W. Moll , Nityan L. Nair , Tony Helm , Andrew C. Potter , Itamar Kimchi , Ashvin Vishwanath , James G. Analytis

A signature property of Weyl semimetals is the existence of topologically protected surface states - arcs in momentum space that connect Weyl points in the bulk. However, the presence of bulks states makes detection of surface contributions…