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Recently synthesized 3D materials with Dirac spectrum exhibit peculiar electric transport qualitatively different from its 2D analogue, graphene. Neglecting impuritiy scattering, the real part of the conductivity is strongly frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 B. Rosenstein , H. C. Kao , M. Lewkowicz

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

We find that generic boundary conditions of Weyl semimetal is dictated by only a single real parameter, in the continuum limit. We determine how the energy dispersions (the Fermi arcs) and the wave functions of edge states depend on this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-03 Koji Hashimoto , Taro Kimura , Xi Wu

This is a PhD dissertation. Ignited by the chiral anomaly of recently discovered Weyl (semi-)metals, we study the chiral magnetic effect and the natural optical activity of noncentrosymmetric metals. Both phenomena are related to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-14 Jing Ma

Weyl semimetals (WSMs) have unusual optical response originated from unique topological properties of their bulk and surface electron states. Their third-order optical nonlinearity is expected to be very strong, especially at long…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Sultan Almutairi , Qianfan Chen , Mikhail Tokman , Alexey Belyanin

We investigate the quasi-particle and transport properties of a model describing interacting Dirac and Weyl semimetals in the presence of local Hubbard repulsion $U$, where we explicitly include a deviation from the linearity of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-18 Arianna Poli , Niklas Wagner , Max Fischer , Alessandro Toschi , Giorgio Sangiovanni , Sergio Ciuchi

We investigate surface waves at the boundary between a semi-infinite layered metal-dielectric nanostructure cut normally to the layers and a semi-infinite dielectric. Spatial dispersion properties of such a nanostructure can be dramatically…

We analyze nonlinear effects in optically driven arrays of nonlinear metallic nanoparticles. We demonstrate that such plasmonic systems are characterized by a bistable response, and they can support the propagation of dissipative switching…

Optics · Physics 2012-06-01 Roman E. Noskov , Pavel A. Belov , Yuri S. Kivshar

Three-dimensional Weyl and Dirac semimetals can support a chiral-symmetry-breaking, fully gapped, charge-density-wave order even for sufficiently weak repulsive electron-electron interactions, when placed in strong magnetic fields. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-25 Bitan Roy , Jay D. Sau

The guided dispersion characteristics of subwavelength nanoscale plasmonic coaxial lines are analyzed in detail over a wide optical frequency range below the plasma frequency with a varying gap between the inner and outer plasmonic…

Optics · Physics 2009-05-07 Ki Young Kim

We present an optical investigation of surface plasmon polaritons propagating along nanoscale Au-wires, lithographically defined on GaAs substrates. A two-axis confocal microscope was used to perform spatially and polarization resolved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-12 Gregor Bracher , Konrad Schraml , Marcus Ossiander , Simon Frederick , Jonathan J. Finley , Michael Kaniber

We introduce two types of toroidal metamaterials which are invisible to surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) propagating on a metal surface. The former is a toroidal handlebody bridging remote holes on the metal surface: It works as a kind of…

Optics · Physics 2014-09-03 Muamer Kadic , Guillaume Dupont , Sebastien Guenneau , Stefan Enoch

Electroelastic waves in piezoelectric media are widely used in sensing and filtering applications. Despite extensive research, computing the guided wave dispersion remains challenging. This paper presents semi-analytical approaches based on…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Daniel A. Kiefer , Georg Watzl , Katharina Burgholzer , Martin Ryzy , Clemens Grünsteidl

We analyze one-dimensional photonic superlattices which alternate layers of air and a left-handed material. We assume Drude-type dispersive responses for the dielectric permittivity and magnetic permeability of the left-handed material.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 E. Reyes-Gomez , A. Bruno-Alfonso , S. B. Cavalcanti , C. A. A. de Carvalho , L. E. Oliveira

Recent studies on spin-wave propagation in ferromagnetic waveguides has highlighted the role of nonreciprocity resulting from the chiral nature of dipolar interactions in curved elements. However, the impact of spin-wave mode type on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Uladzislau Makartsou , Mateusz Gołębiewski , Attila Kákay , Olena Tartakivska , Maciej Krawczyk

The study of interaction between electromagnetism and elementary particles is a long-standing topic in physics. Likewise, the connection between particle physics and emergent phenomena in condensed matter physics is a recurring theme and…

This note analytically investigates non-reciprocal wave dispersion in locally resonant acoustic metamaterials. Dispersion relations associated with space-time varying modulations of inertial and stiffness parameters of the base material and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-01-11 M. A. Attarzadeh , H. Al Ba'ba'a , M. Nouh

PrAlSi, a non-centrosymmetric ferromagnetic Weyl semimetal candidate with a Curie temperature of 17.8K, offers a unique platform for exploring the interplay of symmetry breaking and topological electronic structures. Up to now, the Weyl…

Weyl semimetal (WSM) thin films exhibit distinct electronic properties compared to their bulk counterparts. In this study, we theoretically investigate the nonreciprocal ballistic transport phenomena arising in WSM thin films due to surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 M. H. Zou , R. Ma , S. J. Xu , W. Chen , H. Geng , L. Sheng , D. Y. Xing

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