Emergent Weyl Nodes and Monopole Charge Density Wave State

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Abstract

We study a new class of topological charge density wave states exhibiting monopole harmonic symmetries. When electron and hole Fermi surfaces carry different Chern numbers, the particle-hole pairing exhibits a non-trivial Berry phase inherited from band structure topology independent of concrete density-wave ordering mechanism. The associated density-wave gap functions become nodal, and the net nodal vorticity is determined by the monopole charge of the pairing Berry phase. The gap function nodes become zero-energy Weyl nodes of the bulk spectra of quasi-particle excitations. These states can occur in doped Weyl semimetals with nested electron and hole Fermi surfaces enclosing Weyl nodes of the same chirality in the weak coupling regime. Possible signatures of monopole harmonic charge density waves are proposed for scattering experiments.

*We acknowledge the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering, Grant No. DE-FG02-08ER46544 and support from the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships.

Presenters

  • Yi Li

    • Johns Hopkins University

Authors

  • Yi Li

    • Johns Hopkins University
  • Eric Bobrow

    • Johns Hopkins University
  • Canon Sun

    • Johns Hopkins University