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Ideal Weyl semimetals with all Weyl nodes exactly at the Fermi level and no coexisting trivial Fermi surfaces in the bulk, similar to graphene, could feature deep physics such as exotic transport phenomena induced by the chiral anomaly.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-06 Jiawei Ruan , Shao-Kai Jian , Hong Yao , Haijun Zhang , Shou-Cheng Zhang , Dingyu Xing

Weyl semimetals and higher-order topological insulators represent two fundamental yet distinct classes of topological matter. While both have been extensively studied in classical-wave systems, their coexistence and controllable transition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 Yu-Hong Han , Yi Li , Feng Mei , Liantuan Xiao , Suotang Jia

Weyl points are the simplest topologically-protected degeneracy in a three-dimensional dispersion relation. The realization of Weyl semimetals in photonic crystals has allowed these singularities and their consequences to be explored with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-23 R. L. Mc Guinness , P. R. Eastham

We study two Weyl semimetal generalizations in five dimensions (5d) which have Yang monopoles and linked Weyl surfaces in the Brillouin zone, respectively, and carry the second Chern number as a topological number. In particular, we show a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 Biao Lian , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Three-dimensional (3D) topological semimetals represent a new class of topological matters. The study of this family of materials has been at the frontiers of condensed matter physics, and many breakthroughs have been made. Several…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-10-03 Jin Hu , Su-Yang Xu , Ni Ni , Zhiqiang Mao

Weyl fermions, which are fermions with definite chiralities, can give rise to anomalous breaking of the symmetry of the physical system which they are a part of. In their (3+1)-dimensional realizations in condensed matter systems, i.e., the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-17 Jimmy A. Hutasoit , Jiadong Zang , Radu Roiban , Chao-Xing Liu

Surface Fermi arcs are the most prominent manifestation of the topological nature of Weyl semimetals. In the presence of a static magnetic field oriented perpendicular to the sample surface, their existence leads to unique inter-surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-22 Yuval Baum , Erez Berg , S. A. Parameswaran , Ady Stern

We introduce (3+1) dimensional models of short-range-interacting electrons that form a strongly correlated many-body state whose low-energy excitations are relativistic neutral fermions coupled to an emergent gauge field, $\text{QED}_{4}$.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-21 Eran Sagi , Ady Stern , David F. Mross

A Weyl semimetal denotes an electronic phase of solids in which two bands cross linearly. In this paper we study the effect of a spatially correlated disorder on such a phase. Using a renormalization group analysis, we show that in three…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-06 Thibaud Louvet , David Carpentier , Andrei A. Fedorenko

The helimagnet (HM) and skyrmion lattice (SL) are topologically nontrivial magnetic states. Their spin texture gives rise to finite topological magnetic field and Lorentz force. As a demonstration of the emergent electrodynamics besides the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-25 Rui Zhu

We propose a simple realization of the three-dimensional (3D) Weyl semimetal phase, utilizing a multilayer structure, composed of identical thin films of a magnetically-doped 3D topological insulator (TI), separated by ordinary-insulator…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 A. A. Burkov , Leon Balents

Multi-Weyl semimetals(WSMs) have an anisotropic non-linear dispersion along a 2-D plane and a linear dispersion in an orthogonal direction. They have topological charge $\lq n $' and are created when two or multiple Weyl points or nodes…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-28 Amit Gupta

Graphene as a two-dimensional (2D) topological Dirac semimetal has attracted much attention for its outstanding properties and potential applications. However, three-dimensional (3D) topological semimetals for carbon materials are still…

A review of new developments in theoretical and experimental electronic structure investigations of half-metallic ferromagnets (HMF) is presented. Being semiconductors for one spin projection and metals for another ones, these substances…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-09-17 M. I. Katsnelson , V. Yu. Irkhin , L. Chioncel , A. I. Lichtenstein , R. A. de Groot

Higher-order topological insulators and semimetals, which generalize the conventional bulk-boundary correspondence, have attracted extensive research interest. Among them, higher-order Weyl semimetals feature two-fold linear crossing points…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Qiyun Ma , Zhenhang Pu , Liping Ye , Jiuyang Lu , Xueqin Huang , Manzhu Ke , Hailong He , Weiyin Deng , Zhengyou Liu

Weyl semimetals are topological materials whose electron quasiparticles obey the Weyl equation. They possess many unusual properties that may lead to new applications. This is a tutorial review of the optical properties and applications of…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-13 Cheng Guo , Viktar S. Asadchy , Bo Zhao , Shanhui Fan

We develop a semiclassical Boltzmann theory for frequency-dependent magneto-optical transport in Weyl semimetals (WSMs), incorporating momentum-dependent relaxation via a scattering matrix approach. The interplay of orbital magnetic moment,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Azaz Ahmad , Pankaj Bhalla , Snehasish Nandy , Tanay Nag

Intuitively, the dispersion characteristics of Weyl nodes with opposite charges in single-pair charge-2 Weyl semimetals are the same, quadratic or linear. We theoretically predicted that single-pair hybrid charge-2 Weyl semimetals (the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-20 P. Zhou , Y. Z. Hu , B. R. Pan , F. F. Huang , W. Q. Li , Z. S. Ma , L. Z. Sun

The review treats Heusler alloys that display distinctive functional properties, including shape-memory behavior and magnetocaloric effects. Particular emphasis is placed on Heusler systems in which half-metallic ferromagnetism and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-25 V. V. Marchenkov , V. Yu. Irkhin , Yu. A. Perevozchikova

Weyl and Dirac (semi)metals in three dimensions have robust gapless electronic band structures. Their massless single-body energy spectra are protected by symmetries such as lattice translation, (screw) rotation and time reversal. In this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-06 Syed Raza , Alexander Sirota , Jeffrey C. Y. Teo