Physics:Fermi arc

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Short description: Phenomenon of unconventional superconductors


In the field of unconventional superconductivity, a Fermi arc [1] is a phenomenon visible in the pseudogap state of a superconductor. Seen in momentum space, part of the space exhibits a gap in the density of states, like in a superconductor. This starts at the antinodal points, and spreads through momentum space when lowering the temperature until everywhere is gapped and the sample is superconducting. The area in momentum space that remains ungapped is called the Fermi arc.[2]

Fermi arcs also appear in some materials with topological properties such as Weyl semimetals where they represent a surface projection of a two dimensional Fermi contour and are terminated onto the projections of the Weyl fermion nodes on the surface.

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  1. Schrunk, Benjamin; Kushnirenko, Yevhen; Kuthanazhi, Brinda; Ahn, Junyeong; Wang, Lin-Lin; O’Leary, Evan; Lee, Kyungchan; Eaton, Andrew et al. (March 2022). "Emergence of Fermi arcs due to magnetic splitting in an antiferromagnet" (in en). Nature 603 (7902): 610–615. doi:10.1038/s41586-022-04412-x. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 35322253. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04412-x. 
  2. Tao Li and Qiang Han (2011). "On the origin of the Fermi arc phenomenon in the underdoped cuprates: signature of KT-type superconducting transition". Journal of Physics 23 (10): 105603–105608. doi:10.1088/0953-8984/23/10/105603. PMID 21335633. Bibcode2011JPCM...23j5603L.