Researching

Journals
  • Advanced Photonics
  • Photonics Insights
  • Advanced Photonics Nexus
  • Photonics Research
  • Advanced Imaging
  • View All Journals
  • Chinese Optics Letters
  • High Power Laser Science and Engineering
    • Articles
  • Optics
  • Physics
  • Geography
  • View All Subjects
    • Conferences
  • CIOP
  • HPLSE
  • AP
  • View All Events
    • News
    About CLP
    Search by keywords or author
    Journals >Acta Optica Sinica (Online) >Volume 2 >Issue 1 >Page 0110001 > Article
    • Acta Optica Sinica (Online)
    • Vol. 2, Issue 1, 0110001 (2025)
    Experimental Progress on Optical Weyl Metamaterials and Fermi Arcs (Invited)
    Hanyu Wang, Mengjian Zhu, Chucai Guo***, Zhihong Zhu**, and Biao Yang*
    Author Affiliations
  • College of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, Hunan , China
    • show less
    DOI: 10.3788/AOSOL240455 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Hanyu Wang, Mengjian Zhu, Chucai Guo, Zhihong Zhu, Biao Yang. Experimental Progress on Optical Weyl Metamaterials and Fermi Arcs (Invited)[J]. Acta Optica Sinica (Online), 2025, 2(1): 0110001 Copy Citation Text show less
    References

    [1] Bansil A, Lin H, Das T. Colloquium: topological band theory[J]. Reviews of Modern Physics, 88, 021004(2016).

    [2] Hasan M Z, Kane C L. Colloquium: topological insulators[J]. Reviews of Modern Physics, 82, 3045-3067(2010).

    [3] Qi X L, Zhang S C. Topological insulators and superconductors[J]. Reviews of Modern Physics, 83, 1057-1110(2011).

    [4] Bernevig B A, Hughes T L, Zhang S C. Quantum spin Hall effect and topological phase transition in HgTe quantum wells[J]. Science, 314, 1757-1761(2006).

    [5] Wieder B J, Bradlyn B, Cano J et al. Topological materials discovery from crystal symmetry[J]. Nature Reviews Materials, 7, 196-216(2022).

    [6] Narang P, Garcia C A C, Felser C. The topology of electronic band structures[J]. Nature Materials, 20, 293-300(2021).

    [7] Zhang H J, Liu C X, Qi X L et al. Topological insulators in Bi2Se3, Bi2Te3 and Sb2Te3 with a single Dirac cone on the surface[J]. Nature Physics, 5, 438-442(2009).

    [8] Fu L, Kane C L, Mele E J. Topological insulators in three dimensions[J]. Physical Review Letters, 98, 106803(2007).

    [9] Weng H M, Liang Y Y, Xu Q N et al. Topological node-line semimetal in three-dimensional graphene networks[J]. Physical Review B, 92, 045108(2015).

    [10] Weyl H. Gravitation and the electron[J]. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 15, 323-334(1929).

    [11] Yan B H, Felser C. Topological materials: Weyl semimetals[J]. Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, 8, 337-354(2017).

    [12] Hasan M Z, Xu S Y, Belopolski I et al. Discovery of Weyl fermion semimetals and topological Fermi arc states[J]. Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, 8, 289-309(2017).

    [13] Burkov A A. Weyl metals[J]. Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, 9, 359-378(2018).

    [14] Guo C, Asadchy V S, Zhao B et al. Light control with Weyl semimetals[J]. eLight, 3, 2(2023).

    [15] Hasan M Z, Chang G Q, Belopolski I et al. Weyl, Dirac and high-fold chiral fermions in topological quantum matter[J]. Nature Reviews Materials, 6, 784-803(2021).

    [16] Wang Z J, Sun Y, Chen X Q et al. Dirac semimetal and topological phase transitions in A3Bi (A=Na, K, Rb)[J]. Physical Review B, 85, 195320(2012).

    [17] Young S M, Zaheer S, Teo J C Y et al. Dirac semimetal in three dimensions[J]. Physical Review Letters, 108, 140405(2012).

    [18] Tabert C J, Carbotte J P, Nicol E J. Optical and transport properties in three-dimensional Dirac and Weyl semimetals[J]. Physical Review B, 93, 085426(2016).

    [19] Xu G, Weng H M, Wang Z J et al. Chern semimetal and the quantized anomalous Hall effect in HgCr2Se4[J]. Physical Review Letters, 107, 186806(2011).

    [20] Burkov A A, Balents L. Weyl semimetal in a topological insulator multilayer[J]. Physical Review Letters, 107, 127205(2011).

    [21] Huang S M, Xu S Y, Belopolski I et al. A Weyl Fermion semimetal with surface Fermi arcs in the transition metal monopnictide TaAs class[J]. Nature Communications, 6, 7373(2015).

    [22] Lü B Q, Xu N, Weng H M et al. Observation of Weyl nodes in TaAs[J]. Nature Physics, 11, 724-727(2015).

    [23] Lü B Q, Weng H M, Fu B B et al. Experimental discovery of Weyl semimetal TaAs[J]. Physical Review X, 5, 031013(2015).

    [24] Lü B Q, Muff S, Qian T et al. Observation of Fermi-arc spin texture in TaAs[J]. Physical Review Letters, 115, 217601(2015).

    [25] Xu S Y, Belopolski I, Sanchez D S et al. Experimental discovery of a topological Weyl semimetal state in TaP[J]. Science Advances, 1, e1501092(2015).

    [26] Xu S Y, Belopolski I, Alidoust N et al. Discovery of a Weyl fermion semimetal and topological Fermi arcs[J]. Science, 349, 613-617(2015).

    [27] Yang H F, Yang L X, Liu Z K et al. Topological Lifshitz transitions and Fermi arc manipulation in Weyl semimetal NbAs[J]. Nature Communications, 10, 3478(2019).

    [28] Manna K, Sun Y, Muechler L et al. Heusler, Weyl and Berry[J]. Nature Reviews Materials, 3, 244-256(2018).

    [29] Arnold F, Naumann M, Wu S C et al. Chiral Weyl pockets and Fermi surface topology of the Weyl semimetal TaAs[J]. Physical Review Letters, 117, 146401(2016).

    [30] Arnold F, Shekhar C, Wu S C et al. Negative magnetoresistance without well-defined chirality in the Weyl semimetal TaP[J]. Nature Communications, 7, 11615(2016).

    [31] Armitage N P, Mele E J, Vishwanath A. Weyl and Dirac semimetals in three-dimensional solids[J]. Reviews of Modern Physics, 90, 015001(2018).

    [32] Burkov A A. Weyl metals[J]. Annual Reviews, 9, 359-378(2018).

    [33] Ilan R, Grushin A G, Pikulin D I. Pseudo-electromagnetic fields in 3D topological semimetals[J]. Nature Reviews Physics, 2, 29-41(2020).

    [34] Mathai V, Thiang G C. Global topology of Weyl semimetals and Fermi arcs[J]. Journal of Physics A, 50, 11LT01(2017).

    [35] Zhang C, Zhang Y, Lu H Z et al. Cycling Fermi arc electrons with Weyl orbits[J]. Nature Reviews Physics, 3, 660-670(2021).

    [36] Jia S, Xu S Y, Hasan M Z. Weyl semimetals, Fermi arcs and chiral anomalies[J]. Nature Materials, 15, 1140-1144(2016).

    [37] Michel F, David C. An introduction to topological insulators[J]. Comptes Redus Physique, 14, 779-815(2013).

    [38] Jiang Q D, Jiang H, Liu H W et al. Topological imbert-fedorov shift in Weyl semimetals[J]. Physical Review Letters, 115, 156602(2015).

    [39] Chistyakov V, Asadchy V, Fan S et al. Tunable magnetless optical isolation with twisted Weyl semimetals[J]. Nanophotonics, 12, 3333-3340(2023).

    [40] Hou Z, Zhou Y F, Yang N X et al. Chirality-dependent electron transport in Weyl semimetal p-n-p junctions[J]. Communications Physics, 2, 86(2019).

    [41] Hübener H, Sentef M A, De Giovannini U et al. Creating stable Floquet-Weyl semimetals by laser-driving of 3D Dirac materials[J]. Nature Communications, 8, 13940(2017).

    [42] Haldane F D M, Raghu S. Possible realization of directional optical waveguides in photonic crystals with broken time-reversal symmetry[J]. Physical Review Letters, 100, 013904(2008).

    [43] Wang Z, Chong Y D, Joannopoulos J D et al. Observation of unidirectional backscattering-immune topological electromagnetic states[J]. Nature, 461, 772-775(2009).

    [44] Ozawa T, Price H M, Amo A et al. Topological photonics[J]. Reviews of Modern Physics, 91, 015006(2019).

    [45] Kim M, Jacob Z, Rho J. Recent advances in 2D, 3D and higher-order topological photonics[J]. Light: Science & Applications, 9, 130(2020).

    [46] Khanikaev A B, Shvets G. Two-dimensional topological photonics[J]. Nature Photonics, 11, 763-773(2017).

    [47] Jaibi O. Topology and geometry in a quantum condensed matter system-Weyl semimetals[D], 116(2020).

    [48] Lu L, Fu L, Joannopoulos J D et al. Weyl points and line nodes in gyroid photonic crystals[J]. Nature Photonics, 7, 294-299(2013).

    [49] Zyuzin A A, Burkov A A. Topological response in Weyl semimetals and the chiral anomaly[J]. Physical Review B, 86, 115133(2012).

    [50] Xiong J, Kushwaha S K, Liang T et al. Evidence for the chiral anomaly in the Dirac semimetal Na3Bi[J]. Science, 350, 413-416(2015).

    [51] Son D T, Spivak B Z. Chiral anomaly and classical negative magnetoresistance of Weyl metals[J]. Physical Review B, 88, 104412(2013).

    [52] Parameswaran S A, Grover T, Abanin D A et al. Probing the chiral anomaly with nonlocal transport in three-dimensional topological semimetals[J]. Physical Review X, 4, 031035(2014).

    [53] Ashby P E C, Carbotte J P. Chiral anomaly and optical absorption in Weyl semimetals[J]. Physical Review B, 89, 245121(2014).

    [54] Niemann A C, Gooth J, Wu S C et al. Chiral magnetoresistance in the Weyl semimetal NbP[J]. Scientific Reports, 7, 43394(2017).

    [55] Ma J, Pesin D A. Chiral magnetic effect and natural optical activity in metals with or without Weyl points[J]. Physical Review B, 92, 235205(2015).

    [56] Kharzeev D E, Yee H U. Anomaly induced chiral magnetic current in a Weyl semimetal: chiral electronics[J]. Physical Review B, 88, 115119(2013).

    [57] Lu L, Wang Z Y, Ye D X et al. Experimental observation of Weyl points[J]. Science, 349, 622-624(2015).

    [58] Vaidya S, Noh J, Cerjan A et al. Observation of a charge-2 photonic Weyl point in the infrared[J]. Physical Review Letters, 125, 253902(2020).

    [59] Noh J, Huang S, Leykam D et al. Experimental observation of optical Weyl points and Fermi arc-like surface states[J]. Nature Physics, 13, 611-617(2017).

    [60] Jörg C, Vaidya S, Noh J et al. Observation of quadratic (charge-2) Weyl point splitting in near-infrared photonic crystals[J]. Laser & Photonics Reviews, 16, 2100452(2022).

    [61] Chowdhury D, Banerjee A, Narayan A. Light-driven Lifshitz transitions in non-Hermitian multi-Weyl semimetals[J]. Physical Review A, 103, L051101(2021).

    [62] Huang S M, Xu S Y, Belopolski I et al. New type of Weyl semimetal with quadratic double Weyl fermions[J]. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113, 1180-1185(2016).

    [63] Liu Q H, Zunger A. Predicted realization of cubic Dirac fermion in quasi-one-dimensional transition-metal monochalcogenides[J]. Physical Review X, 7, 021019(2017).

    [64] Jian S K, Yao H. Correlated double-Weyl semimetals with coulomb interactions: possible applications to HgCr2Se4 and SrSi2[J]. Physical Review B, 92, 045121(2015).

    [65] Rechciński R, Tworzydło J. Landau levels of double-Weyl nodes in a simple lattice model[J]. Acta Physica Polonica A, 130, 1179-1182(2016).

    [66] Lai H H. Correlation effects in double-Weyl semimetals[J]. Physical Review B, 91, 235131(2015).

    [67] Chen Q, Fiete G A. Thermoelectric transport in double-Weyl semimetals[J]. Physical Review B, 93, 155125(2016).

    [68] Soluyanov A A, Gresch D, Wang Z et al. Type-Ⅱ Weyl semimetals[J]. Nature, 527, 495-498(2015).

    [69] Li R J, Lü B, Tao H B et al. Ideal type-Ⅱ Weyl points in topological circuits[J]. National Science Review, 8, nwaa192(2020).

    [70] O’Brien T E, Diez M, Beenakker C W J. Magnetic breakdown and Klein tunneling in a type-Ⅱ weyl semimetal[J]. Physical Review Letters, 116, 236401(2016).

    [71] Zyuzin A A, Tiwari R P. Intrinsic anomalous Hall effect in type-II Weyl semimetals[J]. JETP Letters, 103, 717-722(2016).

    [72] Zheng H, Hasan M Z. Quasiparticle interference on type-Ⅰ and type-Ⅱ Weyl semimetal surfaces: a review[J]. Advances in Physics X, 3, 1466661(2018).

    [73] Song W G, Lin Z Y, Ji J T et al. Bound-extended mode transition in type-Ⅱ synthetic photonic Weyl heterostructures[J]. Physical Review Letters, 132, 143801(2024).

    [74] Ma S J, Bi Y G, Guo Q H et al. Linked Weyl surfaces and Weyl arcs in photonic metamaterials[J]. Science, 373, 572-576(2021).

    [75] Yang B, Guo Q H, Tremain B et al. Ideal Weyl points and helicoid surface states in artificial photonic crystal structures[J]. Science, 359, 1013-1016(2018).

    [76] Yang B, Guo Q H, Tremain B et al. Direct observation of topological surface-state arcs in photonic metamaterials[J]. Nature Communications, 8, 97(2017).

    [77] Yang Y H, Gao Z, Feng X L et al. Ideal unconventional Weyl point in a chiral photonic metamaterial[J]. Physical Review Letters, 125, 143001(2020).

    [78] Chen W J, Xiao M, Chan C T. Photonic crystals possessing multiple Weyl points and the experimental observation of robust surface states[J]. Nature Communications, 7, 13038(2016).

    [79] Fang C, Lu L, Liu J W et al. Topological semimetals with helicoid surfacestates[J]. Nature Physics, 12, 936-941(2016).

    [80] Yang H F, Liang A J, Chen C et al. Visualizing electronic structures of quantum materials by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy[J]. Nature Reviews Materials, 3, 341-353(2018).

    [81] Cheng H, Gao W L, Bi Y G et al. Vortical reflection and spiraling Fermi arcs with Weyl metamaterials[J]. Physical Review Letters, 125, 093904(2020).

    [82] Wang H Y, Xu W, Wei Z Y et al. Twisted photonic Weyl meta-crystals and aperiodic Fermi arc scattering[J]. Nature Communications, 15, 2440(2024).

    [83] Xia L B, Gao W L, Yang B et al. Stretchable photonic ‘Fermi arcs’ in twisted magnetized plasma[J]. Laser & Photonics Reviews, 12, 1700226(2018).

    [84] Jia H W, Zhang R X, Gao W L et al. Observation of chiral zero mode in inhomogeneous three-dimensional Weyl metamaterials[J]. Science, 363, 148-151(2019).

    [85] Ishida H, Liebsch A. Fermi arc engineering at the interface between two Weyl semimetals[J]. Physical Review B, 98, 195426(2018).

    [86] Dwivedi V. Fermi arc reconstruction at junctions between Weyl semimetals[J]. Physical Review B, 97, 064201(2018).

    [87] Lou B C, Zhao N, Minkov M et al. Theory for twisted bilayer photonic crystal slabs[J]. Physical Review Letters, 126, 136101(2021).

    [88] Andrei E Y, Efetov D K, Jarillo-Herrero P et al. The marvels of moiré materials[J]. Nature Reviews Materials, 6, 201-206(2021).

    [89] Nguyen D H M, Devescovi C, Nguyen D X et al. Fermi arc reconstruction in synthetic photonic lattice[J]. Physical Review Letters, 131, 053602(2023).

    [90] Abdulla F, Rao S, Murthy G. Fermi arc reconstruction at the interface of twisted Weyl semimetals[J]. Physical Review B, 103, 235308(2021).

    [91] Buccheri F, Egger R, De Martino A. Transport, refraction, and interface arcs in junctions of Weyl semimetals[J]. Physical Review B, 106, 045413(2022).

    [92] Fonseca A G E, Christensen T, Joannopoulos J D et al. Quasicrystalline Weyl points and dense Fermi-Bragg arcs[EB/OL]. https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.14299v3

    [93] Slager R J, Juričić V, Roy B. Dissolution of topological Fermi arcs in a dirty Weyl semimetal[J]. Physical Review B, 96, 201401(2017).

    [94] Zheng Y, Chen W, Xing D Y. Andreev reflection in Fermi-arc surface states of Weyl semimetals[J]. Physical Review B, 104, 075420(2021).

    [95] Yang Y, Bi Y G, Peng L et al. Veselago lensing with Weyl metamaterials[J]. Optica, 8, 249-254(2021).

    Abstract
    Get PDF(in Chinese)
    Figures&Tables (12)
    Equations (0)
    References (95)
    Get Citation
    Copy Citation Text
    Hanyu Wang, Mengjian Zhu, Chucai Guo, Zhihong Zhu, Biao Yang. Experimental Progress on Optical Weyl Metamaterials and Fermi Arcs (Invited)[J]. Acta Optica Sinica (Online), 2025, 2(1): 0110001
    Download Citation
    Set citation alerts for the article
    Tools
    Share
    Set citation alerts for the article
    Save the article for my favorites
    Paper Information
    Recommended Topics
    laser devices and laser physics
    Lasers and Laser Optics
    Laser physics
    laser manufacturing
    Instrumentation, Measurement and Metrology