Weyl semimetals are new topological solids with protected massless Dirac electronic states in their bulk and exotic Fermi arc surface states. The electrodynamics of these materials have additional “axion” terms that can manifest as in transport as in optical phenomena and have attracted recently a lot of attention.
The project is devoted to an analysis of a distribution of electric and magnetic fields induced by a point charge near Weyl semimetal surface that can be addressed within the method of image charges.
Supervisor: Dr Dmitry Efimkin
See https://www.monash.edu/science/schools/physics/honours/honours-project to apply.