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Plasmon modes of a two-dimensional lattice of long conducting circular wires are investigated by using an embedding technique to solve Maxwell's equations rigorously. The frequency-dependent density of states is calculated for various…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. Pitarke , J. E. Inglesfield , N. Giannakis

We extend the study of fermionic particle-hole symmetric semi-Dirac (alternatively, semi-Weyo) dispersion of quasiparticles, $\varepsilon_K = \pm \sqrt{(k_x^2/2m)^2 + (vk_y)^2)} = \pm \varepsilon_0 \sqrt{K_x^4 + K_y^2}$ in dimensionless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Swapnonil Banerjee , Warren E. Pickett

Aluminum nanostructures have recently been at the focus of numerous studies due to their properties including oxidation stability and surface plasmon resonances covering the ultraviolet and visible spectral windows. In this article, we…

A nodal surface semimetal (NSSM) features symmetry enforced band crossings along a surface within the three-dimensional (3D) Brillouin zone (BZ) and a presence of a nonsymmorphic symmetry there pushes such surfaces to stick to the BZ center…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-23 Bhaskar Pandit , Satyaki Kar

Non-locality is one of the most striking signatures of the topological nature of Weyl semimetals. We propose to probe the non-locality in these materials via a measurement of a magnetic field dependent Coulomb drag between two sheets of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-01 Yuval Baum , Ady Stern

We investigate a three-dimensional (3D) topological phase resembling a Weyl semimetal, modulated by a periodic potential and engineered through Floquet dynamics. This system is constructed by stacking two-dimensional Chern insulators and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Fang Qin , Rui Chen

Optical control of structural and electronic properties of Weyl semimetals allows development of switchable and dissipationless topological devices at the ultrafast scale. An unexpected orbitial-selective photoexcitation in type-II Weyl…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-14 Meng-Xue Guan , En Wang , Pei-Wei You , Jia-Tao Sun , Sheng Meng

We investigate the optical properties of layered structures with graphene at the interface for arbitrary linear polarization at finite temperature including full retardation by working in the Weyl gauge. As a special case, we obtain the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-23 T. Stauber , G. Gómez-Santos

We study magnetotransport in a disordered Weyl semimetal taking into account localization effects exactly. In the vicinity of a Weyl node, a single chiral Landau level coexists with a number of conventional non-chiral levels. Disorder…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 E. Khalaf , P. M. Ostrovsky

The nonlocal response of chiral electron fluid in a semi-infinite Weyl semimetal slab with the electric current source and drain attached to its surface is studied by using the consistent hydrodynamic framework. It is found that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-24 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , P. O. Sukhachov

Weyl semimetals are prominent examples of topologically protected quantum matter. These materials are the three-dimensional counterparts of graphene and great efforts are being devoted to achieve a thorough understanding of their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-05 A. Díaz-Fernández , F. Domínguez-Adame , O. de Abril

The current-voltage characteristics of a new range of devices built around Weyl semimetals has been predicted using the Landauer formalism. The potential step and barrier have been reconsidered for a three-dimensional Weyl semimetals, with…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-06-13 R. D. Y. Hills , A. Kusmartseva , F. V. Kusmartsev

We investigate the charge excitations of a Weyl semimetal in the axionic charge density wave (axionic CDW) state. While it has been shown that the topological response (anomalous Hall conductivity) is protected against the CDW state, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-29 Matthew D. Redell , Shantanu Mukherjee , Wei-Cheng Lee

Site-dependent local spin susceptibility is investigated with $^{125}$Te nuclear magnetic resonance in a Weyl semimetal WTe$_2$. The nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate $1/T_1T$ shows a dependence of the square of temperature $T$ at high…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-05 Toshiki Yokoo , Yukihiro Watanabe , Masashi Kumazaki , Masayuki Itoh , Yasuhiro Shimizu

Recent works have provided evidence that an axial anomaly can arise in Weyl semimetals. If this is the case, then the electromagnetic response of Weyl semimetals should be governed by the equations of axion electrodynamics. These equations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Kuangyin Deng , John S. Van Dyke , Djordje Minic , J. J. Heremans , Edwin Barnes

The discovery of localized plasmon polariton resonances has been pivotal in enabling tunability of the optical resonance. Recently, extensive research efforts have aimed to expand these achievements to other polaritonic states that exhibit…

The current response to an electromagnetic field in a Weyl or Dirac semimetal becomes nonlocal due to the chiral anomaly activated by an applied static magnetic field. The nonlocality develops under the conditions of the normal skin effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-08 P. O. Sukhachov , L. I. Glazman

Weyl semimetal (WSM) is a newly discovered quantum phase of matter that exhibits topologically protected states characterized by two separated Weyl points with linear dispersion in all directions. Here, via combining theoretical analysis…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-12 Y. Jiang , Z. L. Dun , S. Moon , H. D. Zhou , M. Koshino , D. Smirnov , Z. Jiang

Axion electrodynamics governs electromagnetic properties of Weyl metals. Although transmission and reflection measurements of light have been proposed to confirm the axion electrodynamics, there are still lack of theoretical proposals for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-05 Jinho Yang , Ki-Seok Kim

Surface plasmons in a centrosymmetric metal nanocrystal have been perceived as achiral, based on the quantum-mechanical theory of molecular optical activity. The one-electron theory is insufficient to describe optical activity in crystals,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-02 Jong-Won Park