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The recent discovery of the quantum nonlinear Hall effect has revived the field of nonlinear transport. Here, we predict magnetic field-induced nonlinear Hall effect in time-reversal symmetric Weyl semimetal. We show that the interplay of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-13 Debottam Mandal , Kamal Das , Amit Agarwal

We consider theoretically surface plasmon polaritons in Weyl semimetals. These materials contain pairs of band touching points - Weyl nodes - with a chiral topological charge, which induces an optical anisotropy and anomalous transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-15 Johannes Hofmann , Sankar Das Sarma

Starting from the Ginsparg-Wilson relation, a general construction of chiral gauge theories on the lattice is described. Local and global anomalies are easily discussed in this framework and a closed expression for the effective action can…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin Lüscher

Weyl semimetals are a three dimensional gapless topological phase in which bands intersect at arbitrary points -- the Weyl nodes -- in the Brillouin zone. These points carry a topological quantum number known as the \emph{chirality} and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-05 Pavan Hosur , Xiao-Liang Qi

In the rapidly expanding field of topological materials there is growing interest in systems whose topological electronic band features can be induced or controlled by magnetism. Magnetic Weyl semimetals, which contain linear band crossings…

We theoretically study unattenuated electromagnetic guided wave modes in centrosymmetric Weyl semimetal layered systems. By solving Maxwell's equations for the electromagnetic fields and using the appropriate boundary conditions, we derive…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-16 Klaus Halterman , Mohammad Alidoust

We formulate a linear response theory of the chiral magnetic effect in a finite Weyl semimetal, expressing the electrical current density $j$ induced by a slowly oscillating magnetic field $B$ or chiral chemical potential $\mu$ in terms of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-15 P. Baireuther , J. A. Hutasoit , J. Tworzydło , C. W. J. Beenakker

The last decade has witnessed great advancements in the science and engineering of systems with unconventional band structures, seeded by studies of graphene and topological insulators. While the band structure of graphene simulates…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-12-09 Pavan Hosur , Xiaoliang Qi

In this paper, we present some new results on non-Riemannian geometry, more specifically, asymmetric connections and Weyl's geometry. For asymmetric connections, we show that a projective change in the symmetric part generates a vector…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-03 A. C. V. V. de Siqueira

Dynamics and textures of magnetic domain walls (DWs) may largely alter the electronic behaviors in a Weyl semimetal system via emergent gauge fields. However, very little is known about even the basic properties of these domain walls in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-01 Bochao Xu , Jacob Franklin , Hung-Yu Yang , Fazel Tafti , Ilya Sochnikov

Weyl semimetals exhibit exceptional quantum electronic transport due to the presence of topologically-protected band crossings called Weyl nodes. The nodes come in pairs with opposite chirality, but their number and location in momentum…

Weyl semimetals (WSMs) are topological quantum states wherein the electronic bands linearly disperse around pairs of nodes, the Weyl points, of fixed (left or right) chirality. The recent discovery of WSM materials triggered an experimental…

Weyl fermions are one of the simplest objects that link ideas in geometry and topology to highenergy physics and condensed matter physics. Although the existence of Weyl fermions as elementary particles remains dubious, there is mounting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-05 Azaz Ahmad , Gautham Varma K. , Gargee Sharma

We show that a strained wire of a Weyl semimetal supports a new type of gapless excitation, the chiral sound wave (CSW). It is a longitudinal charge density wave analog to the chiral magnetic wave predicted in the quark-gluon plasma but…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 M. N. Chernodub , María A. H. Vozmediano

The discovery of Weyl and Dirac semimetals has produced a number of dramatic physical effects, including the chiral anomaly and topological Fermi arc surface states. We point out that a very different but no less dramatic physical effect is…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-07-09 Haiwen Liu , Hua Jiang , Ziqiang Wang , Robert Joynt , X. C. Xie

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

Electrons in low-temperature solids are governed by the non-relativistic Schr$\ddot{o}$dinger equation, since the electron velocities are much slower than the speed of light. Remarkably, the low-energy quasi-particles given by electrons in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-15 Jiabin Yu , Chao-Xing Liu

We realized highly tunable Weyl semimetal-bands and subsequently emulated the topological chiral magnetic effects in superconducting quantum circuits. Driving the superconducting quantum circuits with elaborately designed microwave fields,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 Xinsheng Tan , Yuxin Zhao , Qiang Liu , Guangming Xue , Haifeng Yu , Zidan Wang , Yang Yu

We investigate magnetotransport across an interface between two Weyl semimetals whose Weyl nodes project onto different interface momenta. Such an interface generically hosts Fermi arcs that connect Weyl nodes of identical chirality in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-10 Adam Yanis Chaou , Vatsal Dwivedi , Maxim Breitkreiz

Topological semimetals have recently attracted great attention due to prospective applications governed by their peculiar Fermi surfaces. Weyl semimetals host chiral fermions that manifest as pairs of non-degenerate massless Weyl points in…