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We demonstrate that in an ideal Weyl semimetal, in which the Fermi energy coincides with the band-touching nodes, weak direct inter-nodal scattering is irrelevant and, as a result, the chiral charge is (almost) exactly conserved. This leads…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-25 A. A. Burkov

The existence of inequivalent valleys K and K' in the momentum space of two-dimensional hexagonal lattices provides a new electronic degree of freedom, the manipulation of which can potentially lead to new types of electronics, in analogy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 J. Li , K. Wang , K. J. McFaul , Z. Zern , Y. F. Ren , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , Z. H. Qiao , J. Zhu

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

We study the quantum diffusive transport of multivalley massive Dirac cones, where time-reversal symmetry requires opposite spin orientations in inequivalent valleys. We show that the intervalley scattering and intravalley scattering can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-09 Hai-Zhou Lu , Wang Yao , Di Xiao , Shun-Qing Shen

This paper aims to theoretically analyze the behavior of Dirac fermions in tilted Dirac cone material, particularly those that have diffused a barrier potential.Our results show that the degree of tilt in the y-direction can lead to…

The electronic band structure of Weyl semimetals possesses pairs of linear band crossings, called Weyl nodes, characterized by opposite chirality charges associated with each node. The momentum space position of the nodes can reverse across…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-13 Eklavya Thareja , Gina Pantano , Ilya Vekhter , Jacob Gayles

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

Based on the Dirac equation, the behavior of relativistic electrons which tunnel a potential barrier of height V0 for incoming energies between V0 and V0+m is studied by using the wave packet formalism. The choice of this incoming energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Stefano De Leo

We study the AC electrical conductivity at zero temperature in a holographic model for a Weyl semimetal. At small frequencies we observe a linear dependence in the frequency. The model shows a quantum phase transition between a topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-26 Gianluca Grignani , Andrea Marini , Francisco Pena-Benitez , Stefano Speziali

Weyl semimetals have been intensely studied as a three dimensional realization of a Dirac-like excitation spectrum where the conduction bands and valence bands touch at isolated Weyl points in momentum space. Like in graphene, this property…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-22 Tobias Holder , Chia-Wei Huang , Pavel Ostrovsky

Materials with strongly-correlated electrons exhibit interesting phenomena such as metal-insulator transitions and high-temperature superconductivity. In stark contrast to ordinary metals, electron transport in these materials is thought to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-19 J. Gooth , F. Menges , C. Shekhar , V. Süß , N. Kumar , Y. Sun , U. Drechsler , R. Zierold , C. Felser , B. Gotsmann

We study low-frequency linearly-polarized laser-dressing in materials with valley (graphene and hexagonal-Boron-Nitride), and topological (Dirac- and Weyl-semimetals), properties. In Dirac-like linearly-dispersing bands, the laser…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-27 Ofer Neufeld , Hannes Hübener , Gregor Jotzu , Umberto De Giovannini , Angel Rubio

Advances of condensed matter physics in exploiting the spin degree of freedom of electrons led to the emergence of the field of spintronics, which envisions new and more efficient approaches to data transfer, computing, and storage [1-3].…

The development of valleytronics demands long-range electronic transport with preserved valley index, a degree of freedom similar to electron spin. A promising structure for this end is a topological one-dimensional (1D) channel formed in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-25 E. Mania , A. R. Cadore , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , L. C. Campos

Dirac-Weyl semimetals host both Dirac and Weyl fermions and the exploration of material candidates with tunable topological properties is essential to realize topological spintronic devices. In this work, we propose CaAgBi as a Dirac-Weyl…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-15 Shenghao Huang , Heng Gao , Hongfei Wang , Wei Ren

We propose that the noncentrosymmetric LiGaGe-type hexagonal $ABC$ crystal SrHgPb realizes a new type of topological semimetal that hosts both Dirac and Weyl points in momentum space. The symmetry-protected Dirac points arise due to a band…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-12 Heng Gao , Youngkuk Kim , Jörn W. F. Venderbos , C. L. Kane , E. J. Mele , Andrew M. Rappe , Wei Ren

Thermodynamics coupled with quantum features on electron and hole dynamics in Dirac materials is quite interesting and crucial for real device applications. The correlation between the formation of electron-hole puddles in nearer to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Karuppuchamy Navamani

In multivalley systems, the valley pseudospin offers rich physics going from encoding of information by its polarization (valleytronics), to exploring novel phases of matter when its degeneracy is changed. Here, by strain engineering, we…

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

Unconventional surface states protected by non-trivial bulk orders are sources of various exotic quantum transport in topological materials. One prominent example is the unique magnetic orbit, so-called Weyl orbit, in topological semimetals…