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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 and nodal line semimetals are characterized by linear band touching at zero-dimensional points and one-dimensional lines, respectively. We predict that a circularly polarized light drives nodal line semimetals into Weyl…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-19 Zhongbo Yan , Zhong Wang

We introduce feedback-measurement technologies to achieve flexible control of Weyl points and conduct the first experimental demonstration of Weyl type I-II transition in mechanical systems. We demonstrate that non-Hermiticity can expand…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-25 Mingsheng Tian , Ivan Velkovsky , Tao Chen , Fengxiao Sun , Qiongyi He , Bryce Gadway

Creating and manipulating topological states is a key goal of condensed matter physics. Periodic driving offers a powerful method to manipulate electronic states, and even to create topological states in solids. Here, we investigate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-03 Xiu-Li Du , Rui Chen , Rui Wang , Dong-Hui Xu

The propagation of light in Weyl semimetal films is analyzed. The magnetic family of these materials is known by anomalous Hall effect, which, being enhanced by the large Berry curvature, allows one to create strong gyrotropic and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-21 O. V. Kotov , Yu. E. Lozovik

We investigate the surface electronic structures of polar 1T'-MoTe2, the Weyl semimetal candidate realized through the nonpolar-polar structural phase transition, by utilizing the laser angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES)…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-08 M. Sakano , M. S. Bahramy , H. Tsuji , I. Araya , K. Ikeura , H. Sakai , S. Ishiwata , K. Yaji , K. Kuroda , A. Harasawa , S. Shin , K. Ishizaka

The surface states of Weyl semi-metals (SM's) consist of disjointed Fermi-arcs. This unusual surface-Fermiology provides a fingerprint of the topological features of the bulk Weyl-phase. Using a combination of semiclassical and numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-22 Andrew C. Potter , Itamar Kimchi , Ashvin Vishwanath

We extend a top-down holographic model of a Weyl semimetal to finite charge density and compute the fermionic spectral function by introducing two probe fermions of opposite chirality. The model is controlled by the boundary fermion mass M…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-01 Cheng-Yuan Lu , Xian-Hui Ge , Sang-Jin Sin

Topological Weyl semimetals (WSMs) have been predicted to be excellent candidates for detecting Berry curvature dipole (BCD) and the related non-linear effects in electronics and optics due to the large Berry curvature concentrated around…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 Chuanchang Zeng , Snehasish Nandy , Sumanta Tewari

Three-dimensional (3D) Weyl semimetal Mn$_3$Sn has attracted tremendous attention due to its great application potential. However, the complex magnetic structures at different temperature intervals make it extremely difficult to unravel the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-06 L. Y. Cao , Z. A. Xu , B. X. Gao , L. Wang , X. T. Zhang , X. Y. Zhang , Y. F. Guo , R. Y. Chen

Weyl semimetal (WSM) is a newly discovered quantum phase of matter that exhibits topologically protected states characterized by two separated Weyl points with linear dispersion in all directions. Here, via combining theoretical analysis…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-12 Y. Jiang , Z. L. Dun , S. Moon , H. D. Zhou , M. Koshino , D. Smirnov , Z. Jiang

We study the interaction between elliptically polarized light and a three-dimensional Luttinger semimetal with quadratic band touching using Floquet theory. In the absence of light, the touching bands can have the same or the opposite signs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Pavan Hosur , Chin-Sen Ting

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

Recently, time-reversal symmetry broken magnetic Weyl semimetals (WSMs) have attracted extensive attention and have provided an intriguing platform for exploring fundamental physical phenomena. The study of chromium telluride-based systems…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-26 Anumita Bose , Shubham Purwar , Setti Thirupathaiah , Awadhesh Narayan

Weyl electrons are intensely studied due to novel charge transport phenomena such as chiral anomaly, Fermi arcs, and photogalvanic effect. Recent theoretical works suggest that Weyl electrons can also participate in magnetic interactions,…

The interplay between magnetism and electronic topology offers a powerful route to realizing emergent quantum phases. Here, we show that Zn substitution in the layered compound EuMn$_2$Sb$_2$ drives a transition from a C-type…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-29 Deep Sagar , Arti Kashyap

We investigate higher-order Weyl semimetals (HOWSMs) having bulk Weyl nodes attached to both surface and hinge Fermi arcs. We identify a new type of Weyl node, that we dub a $2nd$ order Weyl node, that can be identified as a transition in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Tianhe Li , Taylor L. Hughes

Optical control of structural and electronic properties of Weyl semimetals allows development of switchable and dissipationless topological devices at the ultrafast scale. An unexpected orbitial-selective photoexcitation in type-II Weyl…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-14 Meng-Xue Guan , En Wang , Pei-Wei You , Jia-Tao Sun , Sheng Meng

A Weyl semimetal hosts low-energy chiral surface states, which appear to connect a pair of Weyl nodes in reciprocal space. As these chiral surface states propagate in a given direction, a spontaneous circulating current is expected to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-20 Yositake Takane

We continue our recently proposed holographic description of single-particle correlation functions for four-dimensional chiral fermions with Lifshitz scaling at zero chemical potential, paying particular attention to the dynamical exponent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-11 Umut Gursoy , Vivian Jacobs , Erik Plauschinn , Henk Stoof , Stefan Vandoren