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We study the surface states of a strongly coupled Weyl semimetal within holography. By explicit numerical computation of an inhomogeneous holographic Weyl semimetal we observe the appearance of an electric current restricted to the surface…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-07 Martin Ammon , Markus Heinrich , Amadeo Jiménez-Alba , Sebastian Moeckel

The interplay between electronic interactions and strong spin-orbit coupling is expected to create a plethora of fascinating correlated topological states of quantum matter. Of particular interest are magnetic Weyl semimetals originally…

A Weyl semimetal (WSM) features Weyl fermions in its bulk and topological surface states on surfaces, and is novel material hosting Weyl fermions, a kind of fundamental particles. The WSM was regarded as a three-dimensional version of…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-26 Shumeng Chi , Zhilin Li , Haohai Yu , Gang Wang , Shuxian Wang , Huaijin Zhang , Jiyang Wang

Topological semimetals have emerged as an important class of quantum materials with novel electronic responses and unconventional transport phenomena. Among them, nodal-line semimetals are distinguished by band crossings that extend along…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-11 Ashutosh S. Wadge , Pardeep K. Tanwar , Giuseppe Cuono , Carmine Autieri

In this work we explore the effects of nonlinearity on three-dimensional topological phases. Of particular interest are the so-called Weyl semimetals, known for their Weyl nodes, i.e., point-like topological charges which always exist in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-17 Thomas Tuloup , Raditya Weda Bomantara , Jiangbin Gong

Topological quantum materials (TQMs) possess abundant and attractive spin physics, and a Weyl semimetal is the representative material because of the generation of spin polarization that is available for spin devices due to fictitious Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-28 Kosuke Ohnishi , Motomi Aoki , Ryo Ohshima , Ei Shigematsu , Yuichiro Ando , Taishi Takenobu , Masashi Shiraishi

Topological phases are characterised by a topological invariant that remains unchanged by deformations in the Hamiltonian. Materials exhibiting topological phases include topological insulators, superconductors exhibiting strong spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-08 Dimitrie Culcer , Attila Geresdi

The recent discoveries of Dirac fermions in graphene and on the surface of topological insulators have ignited worldwide interest in physics and materials science. A Weyl semimetal is an unusual crystal where electrons also behave as…

We continue our investigations of the nature of the linear-response tensors in planar-Hall and planar-thermal Hall configurations, involving three-dimensional nodal-point semimetals, by considering here nodes hosting pseudospin-1…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-04 Firdous Haidar , Ipsita Mandal

The quantum nature of electron spin is crucial for establishing topological invariants in real materials. Since the spin does not in general commute with the Hamiltonian, some of the topological features of the material can be extracted…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-08 Rafael Gonzalez-Hernandez , Bernardo Uribe

We investigate an unconventional topological phase transition that occurs in quantum spin Hall (QSH) systems when applying an external in-plane magnetic field. We show that this transition between QSH and trivial insulator phases is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-02 Fernando Dominguez , Benedikt Scharf , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

We systematically investigate the properties of bulk, surface and edge plasmons in Weyl semimetals in presence of a magnetic field. It is found that unidirectional plasmons with different properties exist on different surfaces, which is in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 Furu Zhang , Yang Gao , Wei Zhang

Thermal transport is less appreciated in probing quantum materials in comparison to electrical transport. This article aims to show the pivotal role that thermal transport may play in understanding quantum materials: the longitudinal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-13 Mingda Li , Gang Chen

Topological insulators (TIs) and Weyl semimetals (WSMs) are two realizations of topological matter usually appearing separately in nature. However, they are directly related to each other via a topological phase transition. In this paper,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-06 Stefan Juergens , Björn Trauzettel

Magnetic topological materials, which combine magnetism and topology, are expected to host emerging topological states and exotic quantum phenomena. In this study, with the aid of greatly enhanced coercive fields in high-quality nanoflakes…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-08 Qingqi Zeng , Gangxu Gu , Gang Shi , Jianlei Shen , Bei Ding , Shu Zhang , Xuekui Xi , Claudia Felser , Yongqing Li , Enke Liu

We begin this review with an introduction and a discussion of Weyl fermions as emergent particles in condensed matter systems, and explain how high energy phenomena like the chiral anomaly can be seen in low energy experiments. We then…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Sumathi Rao

$\mathsf{Mn_{3}Sn}$ has recently attracted considerable attention as a magnetic Weyl semimetal exhibiting concomitant transport anomalies at room temperature. The topology of the electronic bands, their relation to the magnetic ground state…

Topological semimetals materialize a new state of quantum matter where massless fermions protected by a specific crystal symmetry host exotic quantum phenomena. Distinct from well-known Dirac and Weyl fermions, structurally-chiral…

How strong correlations and topology interplay is a topic of great current interest. In this perspective paper, we focus on correlation-driven gapless phases. We take the time-reversal symmetric Weyl semimetal as an example because it is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-02 Diana M. Kirschbaum , Monika Lužnik , Gwenvredig Le Roy , Silke Paschen

Topological magnetic Weyl semimetals have been proposed to host controllable chiral domain walls which bear a great prospect in device applications. To exploit them in applications, it is important to have a proper way to tune and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-07 Xiaobo He , Yuke Li , Hai Zeng , Zengwei Zhu , Shiyong Tan , Yongjun Zhang , Chao Cao , Yongkang Luo