# Weyl solitons in three-dimensional optical lattices

@article{Shang2018WeylSI,
title={Weyl solitons in three-dimensional optical lattices},
author={Ce Shang and Yuanlin Zheng and Boris A. Malomed},
journal={Physical Review A},
year={2018},
volume={97}
}
• Published 3 April 2018
• Physics
• Physical Review A
Weyl fermions are massless chiral quasiparticles existing in materials known as Weyl semimetals. Topological surface states, associated with the unusual electronic structure in the Weyl semimetals, have been recently demonstrated in linear systems. Ultracold atomic gases, featuring laser-assisted tunneling in three-dimensional optical lattices, can be used for the emulation of Weyl semimetals, including nonlinear effects induced by the collisional nonlinearity of atomic Bose-Einstein…
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