Global topology of Weyl semimetals and Fermi arcs

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AA59B2MaRDI QIDQ2979689zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Varghese Mathai, Guo Chuan Thiang

Publication date 26 April 2017

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.02242

zbMATH Keywords

linksrelative homologyMayer-Vietoris sequenceambient isotopybulk-boundary correspondenceWeyl semimetalsFermi arcs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of solids (82D20)

Abstract: We provide a manifestly topological classification scheme for generalised Weyl semimetals, in any spatial dimension and with arbitrary Weyl surfaces which may be non-trivially linked. The classification naturally incorporates that of Chern insulators. Our analysis refines, in a mathematically precise sense, some well-known 3D constructions to account for subtle but important global aspects of the topology of semimetals. Using a fundamental locality principle, we derive a generalized charge cancellation condition for the Weyl surface components. We analyse the bulk-boundary correspondence under a duality transformation, which reveals explicitly the topological nature of the resulting surface Fermi arcs. We also analyse the effect of moving Weyl points on the bulk and boundary topological semimetal invariants.

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