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We investigate transport in type-I/type-II Weyl semi\-metal heterostructures that realize effective black- or white-hole event horizons. We provide an exact solution to the scattering problem at normal incidence and low energies, both for a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 Christophe De Beule , Solofo Groenendijk , Tobias Meng , Thomas L. Schmidt

We show that tilted Weyl semimetals with a spatially varying tilt of the Weyl cones provide a platform for studying analogues to problems in anisotropic optics as well as curved spacetime. Considering particular tilting profiles, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-08 Viktor Könye , Lotte Mertens , Corentin Morice , Dmitry Chernyavsky , Ali G. Moghaddam , Jasper van Wezel , Jeroen van den Brink

We theoretically study unattenuated electromagnetic guided wave modes in centrosymmetric Weyl semimetal layered systems. By solving Maxwell's equations for the electromagnetic fields and using the appropriate boundary conditions, we derive…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-16 Klaus Halterman , Mohammad Alidoust

Motivated by the ideas of analogue gravity, we have performed experiments in a flume where an analogue White Hole horizon is generated, in the form of a wave blocking region, by suitably tuned uniform fluid (water) flow and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-29 Debasmita Chatterjee , Praloy Das , Subir Ghosh , B. S. Mazumder

Electrons in Type II Weyl semimetals display one-way propagation, which supports totally reflecting behavior at an endpoint, as one has for black hole horizons viewed from the inside. Junctions of Type I and Type II lead to equations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 Yaron Kedem , Emil J. Bergholtz , Frank Wilczek

We examine the possibility of artificial Hawking radiation by proposing a non-PT-symmetric weakly pseudo-Hermitian two-band model containing a tilting parameter by pursuing Weyl semimetal blackhole analogy. We determine the tunnelling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-20 Bijan Bagchi , Sauvik Sen

We study black and white hole analogues in Weyl semimetals with inhomogenous nodal tilts. We study how the presence of a microscopic lattice, giving rise to low-energy fermion doubler states at large momenta that are not present for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-02 Daniel Sabsovich , Paul Wunderlich , Victor Fleurov , Dmitry I. Pikulin , Roni Ilan , Tobias Meng

Here we propose a minimal analog gravity setup and suggest how to select two surface gravity wave packets in order to mimic some key aspects of Hawking radiation from the horizon of non-rotating black holes. Our proposed setup, unlike the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-25 Anirban Guha , Eyal Heifetz , Akanksha Gupta

In the Painleve--Gullstrand (PG) reference frame, the description of elementary particles in the background of a black hole (BH) is similar to the description of non-relativistic matter falling toward the BH center. The velocity of the fall…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-29 M. A. Zubkov

This work introduces a synergistic combination of analytical methods and numerical simulations to study the propagation of weak wave-packet modes in an optical medium containing the analog of a pair white-black hole. We apply our tools to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-24 Ivan Agullo , Anthony J. Brady , Dimitrios Kranas

Hawking radiation, a manifestation of quantum field theory in curved spacetime, has stimulated extensive theoretical and experimental studies of various black-hole (BH) analogs. However, an undisputed confirmation of Hawking radiation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-21 Meng Kang , Huaqing Huang , Shunping Zhang , Hongxing Xu , Feng Liu

Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, which effectively describe dissipative systems, and analogue gravity models, which simulate properties of gravitational objects, comprise seemingly different areas of current research. Here, we investigate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-18 Marcus Stålhammar , Jorge Larana-Aragon , Lukas Rødland , Flore K. Kunst

In quantum mechanics, a particle is best described by the wave packet instead of the plane wave. Here, we study the wave-packet scattering problem in Weyl semimetals with the low-energy Weyl fermions of different chiralities. Our results…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-08 Qing-Dong Jiang , Hua Jiang , Haiwen Liu , Qing-Feng Sun , X. C. Xie

With electron and hole pockets touching at the Weyl node, type-II Weyl semimetal is a newly proposed topological state distinct from its type-I cousin. We numerically study the localization effect for tilted type-I as well as type-II Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-09 Yijia Wu , Haiwen Liu , Hua Jiang , X. C. Xie

The type-II Weyl and type-II Dirac fermions may emerge behind the event horizon of black holes. Correspondingly the black hole can be simulated by creation of the region with overtilted Weyl or Dirac cones. The filling of the electronic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-12-13 G. E. Volovik

Weyl semimetals have been theoretically predicted to become topological metals with anomalous Hall conductivity in amorphous systems. However, measuring the anomalous Hall conductivity in realistic materials, particularly those with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Jiong-Hao Wang , Yong Xu

The intersections of topology, geometry and strong correlations offer many opportunities for exotic quantum phases to emerge in condensed matter systems. Weyl fermions, in particular, provide an ideal platform for exploring the dynamical…

We numerically study water wave packets on a spatially varying counter-current in the presence of surface tension. Depending on the details of the velocity profile, we show that traversable and bi-directional analogue wormholes exist in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-04-27 Cédric Peloquin , Léo-Paul Euvé , Thomas Philbin , Germain Rousseaux

We investigate the tunneling conductance of Weyl semimetal with tilted energy dispersion by considering electron transmission through a p-n-p junction with one-dimensional electric and magnetic barrier. In the presence of both electric and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-21 Can Yesilyurt , Seng Ghee Tan , Gengchiau Liang , Mansoor B. A. Jalil

Weyl semimetals are a new member of the topological materials family, featuring a pair of singly degenerate Weyl cones with linear dispersion around the nodes in the bulk, and Fermi arcs on the surface. Depending on whether the system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-29 Hao Zheng , M. Zahid Hasan
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