Emergent Weyl excitations in systems of polar particles

ORAL

Abstract

Systems with Weyl quasiparticle dispersion have been predicted to display a plethora of novel fascinating phenomena: chiral anomaly, topologically protected Fermi arcs on the surfaces, non-Anderson disorder-driven transitions, etc. Over the last several years enormous research efforts have been directed at finding new Weyl semimetals in solid-state systems and ways to realise them in ultracold atomic gases. We demonstrate that excitations with Weyl dispersion generically exist in three-dimensional systems of polar particles in the presence of magnetic field. They emerge due to the dipolar-interaction-induced transitions between the $J=0$ and $J=1$ angular-momentum states of the particles. Also, we calculate the quasiparticle spectra microscopically for systems of alkaline-earth atoms that can be realised experimentally and suggest a Ramsey-spectroscopy protocol for observing Weyl excitations in them.

Authors

  • Sergey Syzranov

    • JILA and Physics Department, Univ of Colorado - Boulder
  • Michael Wall

    • JILA and Physics Department, Univ of Colorado - Boulder
  • Bihui Zhu

    • JILA and Physics Department, Univ of Colorado - Boulder
  • Victor Gurarie

    • JILA and Physics Department, Univ of Colorado - Boulder
  • Ana Maria Rey

    • JILA and Physics Department, Univ of Colorado - Boulder