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Topological phases of matter have been extensively studied for their intriguing bulk and edge properties. Recently, higher-order topological insulators with boundary states that are two or more dimensions lower than the bulk states, have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Xiujuan Zhang , Bi-Ye Xie , Hong-Fei Wang , Xiangyuan Xu , Yuan Tian , Jian-Hua Jiang , Ming-Hui Lu , Yan-Feng Chen

Weyl points (WPs), as nodal degenerate points in three-dimensional (3D) momentum space, are ideal if they are symmetry-related, well-separated, residing at the same energy and far from the nontopological bands. Although type-II WPs show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-04 Rujiang Li , Bo Lv , Huibin Tao , Jinhui Shi , Yidong Chong , Baile Zhang , Hongsheng Chen

Higher-order topological phases have raised widespread interest in recent years with the occurrence of the topological boundary states of dimension two or more less than that of the system bulk. The higher-order topological states have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-21 Zhenhang Pu , Hailong He , Licheng Luo , Qiyun Ma , Liping Ye , Manzhu Ke , Zhengyou Liu

The recent phase sensitive measurements in the superconducting $B$-phase of UPt$_3$ provide strong evidence for the triplet, chiral $k_z(k_x \pm ik_y)^2$ pairing symmetries, which endow the Cooper pairs with orbital angular momentum…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-01-20 Pallab Goswami , Andriy H. Nevidomskyy

We demonstrate that a Weyl point, widely examined in 3D Weyl semimetals and superfluids, can develop a pair of non-degenerate gapless spheres. Such a bouquet of two spheres is characterized by three distinct topological invariants of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-04-14 Yong Xu , Fan Zhang , Chuanwei Zhang

We present unconventional nodal crossings in a two-dimensional (2D) collinear altermagnet, which are enforced by crystal symmetries to lock spin polarization and valley degrees of freedom. The altermagnetism generate nonrelativistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Zhang Meng-Han , Guo Xuan , Dao-Xin Yao

Novel "quasi two dimensional" typically layered (semi) metals offer a unique opportunity to control the density and even the topology of the electronic matter. Along with doping and gate voltage, a robust tuning is achieved by application…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-03-28 Baruch Rosenstein , B. Ya. Shapiro

In this work, we explore the possible emergence of superconducting phases in a multi-Weyl semimetal. In particular, we show that the presence of a pair of Weyl nodes with chirality $|\nu| \ge 1$ leads to an effective description of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-07 Alonso Tapia , Enrique Muñoz

We propose that the topological semimetal features can co-exist with ferromagnetic ground state in vanadium-phosphorous-oxide $\beta$-V$_2$OPO$_4$ compound from first-principles calculations. In this magnetic system with inversion symmetry,…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-08 Y. J. Jin , R. Wang , J. Z. Zhao , Z. J. Chen , Y. J. Zhao , H. Xu

We present a model of a topological semimetal in three dimensions (3D) whose energy spectrum exhibits a nodal line acting as a vortex ring; this in turn is linked by a pseudospin structure akin to that of a smoke ring. Contrary to a Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-11 Lih-King Lim , Roderich Moessner

In this work we explore the effects of nonlinearity on three-dimensional topological phases. Of particular interest are the so-called Weyl semimetals, known for their Weyl nodes, i.e., point-like topological charges which always exist in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-17 Thomas Tuloup , Raditya Weda Bomantara , Jiangbin Gong

The interplay between electronic interactions and strong spin-orbit coupling is expected to create a plethora of fascinating correlated topological states of quantum matter. Of particular interest are magnetic Weyl semimetals originally…

Previous work has shown that time-reversal symmetric Weyl semimetals with a quadrupolar arrangement of first-order Weyl nodes exhibit a mixed crystalline-electromagnetic response. For systems with higher order Weyl nodes, which are attached…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Mark R. Hirsbrunner , Alexander D. Gray , Taylor L. Hughes

Weyl semimetals hold great promise in revolutionizing nonreciprocal optical components due to their unique topological properties. By exhibiting nonreciprocal magneto-optical effects without necessitating an external magnetic field, these…

Characterized by the absence of inversion symmetry, non-centrosymmetric materials are of great interest because they exhibit ferroelectricity, second harmonic generation, emergent Weyl fermions, and other fascinating phenomena. It is…

A pair of Weyl points (WPs) with opposite Chern numbers ${\cal{C}}$ can exhibit an additional higher-order $Z_2$ topological charge, giving rise to the formation of a $Z_2$ Weyl dipole. Owing to the nontrivial topological charge, $Z_2$ Weyl…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-25 Jianhua Wang , Yang Wang , Feng Zhou , Wenhong Wang , Zhenxiang Cheng , Shifeng Qian , Xiaotian Wang , Zhi-Ming Yu

Topological semimetals (TSMs) including Weyl semimetals and nodal-line semimetals are expected to open the next frontier of condensed matter and materials science. Although the first inversion breaking Weyl semimetal was recently discovered…

The recent discovery of higher-order topology has largely enriched the classification of topological materials. Theoretical and experimental studies have unveiled various higher-order topological insulators that exhibit topologically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 Zihao Wang , Dongjue Liu , Hau Tian Teo , Qiang Wang , Haoran Xue , Baile Zhang

Recent discovery of both gapped and gapless topological phases in weakly correlated electron systems has introduced various relativistic particles and a number of exotic phenomena in condensed matter physics. The Weyl fermion is a prominent…

Weyl points, serving as monopoles in the momentum space and laying the foundation of topological gapless phases, have recently been experimentally demonstrated in various physical systems. However, none of the observed Weyl degeneracies are…