We studied the transport properties of the Weyl-node-mismatch junction, beside which the Weyl nodes are mismatch so that their projections on the interface plane cannot overlap. When electrons of one valley are injected onto the junction, the refraction is not coplanar with the injection-reflection plane. The non-coplanar deviation angle is valley dependent, and so if the injection consists of both valley components, the birefraction will take place. When electrons coming from a narrow rod transit across the junction into the bulk region on the other side, the electrons will be diffracted in the unconfined region. The diffraction is dispersed near the rod-bulk interface and is laterally deflected to the direction along the line connecting the Weyl node projections of incident and transmitted sides.
If an electron beam hits onto the interface of a Weyl-node-mismatch junction, a shift of the beam center on the interface happens when the beam is reflected or transmitted, where the junction consists of two materials of the same Weyl semimetal and one of them is rotated with respect to the other by an angle. We calculate the longitudinal and transverse shift components (the Goos-Hänchen and Imbert-Fedorov shifts). The reflection shift for total reflection cases is much more remarkable than the shift for transmitted cases. There exists a semi-vortex structure of the reflection shift on the inplane k-space. The vortex is induced by the touch between bulk bands and interface bands. The formation of such interface bands is explained by the pulley-group model, in which the Weyl cones serve as wheels and the surface and interface bands act as ropes. A surface rope connects wheels of opposite chiralities, and an interface rope links the wheels for the two side materials of the same chirality.
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