title: Anisotropic Weyl fermions from the quasiparticle excitation spectrum of a 3D Fulde-Ferrell superfluid.
abstract: Weyl fermions, first proposed for describing massless chiral Dirac fermions in particle physics, have not been observed yet in experiments. Recently, much effort has been devoted to explore Weyl fermions around band touching points of single-particle energy dispersions in certain solid state materials (named Weyl semimetals), similar as graphene for Dirac fermions. Here we show that such Weyl semimetals also exist in the quasiparticle excitation spectrum of a three-dimensional spin-orbit-coupled Fulde-Ferrell superfluid. By varying Zeeman fields, the properties of Weyl fermions, such as their creation and annihilation, number and position, as well as anisotropic linear dispersions around band touching points, can be tuned. We study the manifestation of anisotropic Weyl fermions in sound speeds of Fulde-Ferrell fermionic superfluids, which are detectable in experiments.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, USA.
authors.forename: Yong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, USA.
authors.forename: Rui-Lin
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Chu
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, USA.
authors.forename: Chuanwei
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zhang