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Semimetals, in which conduction and valence bands touch but do not form Fermi surfaces, have attracted considerable interest for their anomalous properties starting with the discovery of Dirac matter in graphene and other two-dimensional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-11 Dennis Wawrzik , David Lindner , Maria Hermanns , Simon Trebst

We review recent theoretical progress in the understanding and prediction of novel topological semimetals. Topological semimetals define a class of gapless electronic phases exhibiting topologically stable crossings of energy bands.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Heng Gao , Jörn W. F. Venderbos , Youngkuk Kim , Andrew M. Rappe

We report on a study of intrinsic superconductivity in a Weyl metal, i.e. a doped Weyl semimetal. Two distinct superconducting states are possible in this system in principle: a zero-momentum pairing BCS state, with point nodes in the gap…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-08-05 G. Bednik , A. A. Zyuzin , A. A. Burkov

The Fermi surface topology of a triple non-hermitian (NH) Weyl semimetal (WSM) driven by bi-circularly polarized light is presented in this study. A NH WSM in particular has remarkable outlines. Bi-circular light, however, modifies the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-13 Debashree Chowdhury

Hall effect of topological quantum materials often reveals essential new physics and possesses potential for application. Magnetic Weyl semimetal is one especially interesting example that hosts an interplay between the spontaneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-18 Xiao-Xiao Zhang , Naoto Nagaosa

We explore the stability of three-dimensional Weyl and Dirac semimetals subject to quasiperiodic potentials. We present numerical evidence that the semimetal is stable for weak quasiperiodic potentials, despite being unstable for weak…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-06-23 J. H. Pixley , Justin H. Wilson , David A. Huse , Sarang Gopalakrishnan

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

We propose a new topological quantum state of matter---the two-dimensional (2D) Weyl half semimetal (WHS), which features 2D Weyl points at Fermi level belonging to a single spin channel, such that the low-energy electrons are described by…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-28 Jing-Yang You , Cong Chen , Zhen Zhang , Xian-Lei Sheng , Shengyuan A. Yang , Gang Su

We investigate high-order harmonic generations (HHGs) under the comparison of Weyl cones in two types. Due to the hyperboloidal electron pocket structure, strong noncentrosymmetrical generations in high orders are observed around a single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Zi-Yuan Li , Qi Li , Zhou Li

The Weyl semimetal (WSM) is a newly proposed quantum state of matter. It has Weyl nodes in bulk excitations and Fermi arcs surface states. We study the effects of disorder and localization in WSMs and find three exotic phase transitions.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Chui-Zhen Chen , Juntao Song , Hua Jiang , Qing-feng Sun , Ziqiang Wang , X. C. Xie

Three-dimensional (3D) topological Weyl semimetals (TWSs) represent a novel state of quantum matter with unusual electronic structures that resemble both a "3D graphene" and a topological insulator by possessing pairs of Weyl points…

A Weyl semimetal wire with an axial magnetization has metallic surface states (Fermi arcs) winding along its perimeter, connecting bulk Weyl cones of opposite topological charge (Berry curvature). We investigate what happens to this "Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-23 P. Baireuther , J. Tworzydło , M. Breitkreiz , I. Adagideli , C. W. J. Beenakker

We study theoretically the two interacting one-dimensional helical modes at the edges of the quantum spin Hall systems. A new type of inter-edge correlated liquid (IECL) without the spin gap is found. This liquid shows the diverging density…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 Yukio Tanaka , Naoto Nagaosa

The holographic duality allows to construct and study models of strongly coupled quantum matter via dual gravitational theories. In general such models are characterized by the absence of quasiparticles, hydrodynamic behavior and Planckian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-20 Karl Landsteiner , Yan Liu , Ya-Wen Sun

This study presents a detailed analysis of critical phenomena in a holographic Weyl semi-metal (WSM) using the $D3/D7$ brane configuration. The research explores the non-linear response of the longitudinal current \( J \) when subjected to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-22 Masataka Matsumoto , Mirmani Mirjalali , Ali Vahedi

We design sub-wavelength high-performing non-reciprocal optical devices using recently discovered magnetic Weyl semimetals. These passive bulk topological materials exhibit anomalous Hall effect which results in magnetooptical effects that…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-09 Viktar Asadchy , Cheng Guo , Bo Zhao , Shanhui Fan

In this work, we propose a ferromagnetic Bi$_2$Se$_3$ as a candidate to hold the coexistence of Weyl- and nodal-line semimetal phases, which breaks the time reversal symmetry. We demonstrate that the type-I Weyl semimetal phase, type-I-,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 M. N. Chen , W. C. Chen , Yu Zhou

We construct a tight-binding model realizing one pair of Weyl nodes and three distinct Weyl semimetals. In the type-I (type-II) Weyl semimetal, both nodes belong to type-I (type-II) Weyl nodes. In addition, there exists a novel type, dubbed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-14 Fei-Ye Li , Xi Luo , Xi Dai , Yue Yu , Fan Zhang , Gang Chen

We demonstrate a few unique dynamical properties of point-gap Weyl semimetal, an intrinsic non-Hermitian topological phase in three dimensions. We consider a concrete model where a pair of Weyl points reside on the imaginary axis of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-20 Haiping Hu , Erhai Zhao , W. Vincent Liu

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