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We study Weyl semimetals in the presence of generic disorder, consisting of a random vector potential as well as a random scalar potential. We derive renormalization group flow equations to second order in the disorder strength. These flow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-14 Björn Sbierski , Kevin S. C. Decker , Piet W. Brouwer

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

The Weyl semimetals represent a distinct category of topological materials wherein the low-energy excitations appear as the long-sought Weyl fermions. Exotic transport and optical properties are expected because of the chiral anomaly and…

We establish a comprehensive theoretical framework for systems subjected to a static uniform temperature gradient, employing the non-equilibrium Keldysh-Dyson formalism. This framework interprets the statistical force due to the temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-01 Luqman Saleem , Udo Schwingenschlogl , Aurelien Manchon

Weyl semimetal is a new topological state of matter, characterized by the presence of nondegenerate band-touching nodes, separated in momentum space, in its bandstructure. Here we discuss a particular realization of a Weyl semimetal: a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 A. A. Zyuzin , Si Wu , A. A. Burkov

Currently, there is a flurry of research interest on materials with an unconventional electronic structure, and we have already seen significant progress in their understanding and engineering towards real-life applications. The interest…

We study the gap generation in Weyl semimetals in a model with local four-fermion interaction. It is shown that there exists a critical value of coupling constant separating the symmetric and broken symmetry phases, and the corresponding…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-07-08 P. O. Sukhachov

Negative magnetoresistance is one of the manifestations of the chiral anomaly in Weyl semimetals. The magneto-optical conductivity also shows transitions between Landau levels that are not spaced as in an ordinary electron gas. How are such…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-05 S. Acheche , R. Nourafkan , J. Padayasi , N. Martin , A. -M. S. Tremblay

Motivated by the exciting prediction of Multi-Weyl topological semimetals that are stabilized by point group symmetries [Phys. Rev. Lett. 108 (2012) 266802], we study tunneling phenomena for a class of anisotropic Multi-Weyl semimetals. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-04 Ahmed Bouhlal , Adel Abbout , Ahmed Jellal , Hocine Bahlouli , Michael Vogl

We investigate multilayer systems of a normal insulator and a Weyl semimetal. We calculate the bulk band structure and determine phase diagrams by changing the thickness of the normal insulator and that of the Weyl semimetal layer using two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 Kazuki Yokomizo , Shuichi Murakami

In disordered Weyl semimetals, mechanisms of topological origin lead to novel mechanisms of transport, which manifest themselves in unconventional types of electromagnetic response. Prominent examples of transport phenomena particular to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-10 Alexander Altland , Dmitry Bagrets

Transport of charge and valley degrees of freedom coupled to order-parameter dynamics in magnetic Weyl semimetals is studied in the framework of nonequilibrium thermodynamics. In addition to the established valley-related transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-10 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

The realization of 100\% polarized topological Weyl fermions in half-metallic ferromagnets is of particular importance for fundamental research and spintronic applications. Here, we theoretically investigate the electronic and topological…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-06 Xianyong Ding , Xin Jin , Haoran Wei , Ruixiang Zhu , Xiaoliang Xiao , Xiaozhi Wu , Fangyang Zhan , Rui Wang

By making use of a low-energy effective model of Weyl semimetals, we show that the Fermi arc transport is dissipative. The origin of the dissipation is the scattering of the surface Fermi arc states into the bulk of the semimetal. It is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-27 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , P. O. Sukhachov

Weyl semimetals are gapless three-dimensional topological materials where two bands touch at even number of points in the Brillouin zone. In this work we study a zincblende lattice model realizing a time-reversal invariant Weyl semimetal.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-10 Teemu Ojanen

In a recent paper (JPCM 29, 445302 (2017)) we have studied the effects of mechanical strain and magnetic field on the electronic transport properties in graphene. In this article we extended our work to Weyl semimetals (WSM). We show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-10 Rodrigo Soto-Garrido , Enrique Muñoz

The dynamo effect is a class of macroscopic phenomena responsible for generation and maintaining magnetic fields in astrophysical bodies. It hinges on hydrodynamic three-dimensional motion of conducting gases and plasmas that achieve high…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-31 Victor Galitski , Mehdi Kargarian , Sergey Syzranov

We calculate the transport properties of three-dimensional Weyl fermions in a disordered environment. The resulting conductivity depends only on the Fermi energy and the scattering rate. First we study the conductivity at the spectral node…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-12-07 K. Ziegler

A Weyl semimetal is a three dimensional topological gapless phase. In the presence of strong enough disorder it undergoes a quantum transition towards a diffusive metal phase whose universality class depends on the range of disorder…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-10-18 Eric Brillaux , David Carpentier , Andrei A. Fedorenko

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