Experimental perspective on three-dimensional topological semimetals

BQ Lv, T Qian, H Ding - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2021 - APS
Topological semimetals (TSMs) are characterized by bulk band crossings in their electronic
structures, which are expected to give rise to gapless electronic excitations and topological …

Transport of topological semimetals

J Hu, SY Xu, N Ni, Z Mao - Annual Review of Materials Research, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Three-dimensional (3D) topological semimetals represent a new class of topological
matters. The study of this family of materials has been at the frontiers of condensed matter …

An ultrafast symmetry switch in a Weyl semimetal

EJ Sie, CM Nyby, CD Pemmaraju, SJ Park, X Shen… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Topological quantum materials exhibit fascinating properties,–, with important applications
for dissipationless electronics and fault-tolerant quantum computers,. Manipulating the …

Direct observation of vortices in an electron fluid

A Aharon-Steinberg, T Völkl, A Kaplan, AK Pariari… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Vortices are the hallmarks of hydrodynamic flow. Strongly interacting electrons in ultrapure
conductors can display signatures of hydrodynamic behaviour, including negative non-local …

Control of spin–orbit torques through crystal symmetry in WTe2/ferromagnet bilayers

D MacNeill, GM Stiehl, MHD Guimaraes, RA Buhrman… - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
Recent discoveries regarding current-induced spin–orbit torques produced by heavy-
metal/ferromagnet and topological-insulator/ferromagnet bilayers provide the potential for …

Superconductivity in Weyl semimetal candidate MoTe2

Y Qi, PG Naumov, MN Ali, CR Rajamathi… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Transition metal dichalcogenides have attracted research interest over the last few decades
due to their interesting structural chemistry, unusual electronic properties, rich intercalation …

Evidence for topological type-II Weyl semimetal WTe2

P Li, Y Wen, X He, Q Zhang, C Xia, ZM Yu… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Recently, a type-II Weyl fermion was theoretically predicted to appear at the contact of
electron and hole Fermi surface pockets. A distinguishing feature of the surfaces of type-II …

Topological quantum materials from the viewpoint of chemistry

N Kumar, SN Guin, K Manna, C Shekhar… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Topology, a mathematical concept, has recently become a popular and truly
transdisciplinary topic encompassing condensed matter physics, solid state chemistry, and …

Imaging phonon-mediated hydrodynamic flow in WTe2

U Vool, A Hamo, G Varnavides, Y Wang, TX Zhou… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
In the presence of interactions, electrons in condensed-matter systems can behave
hydrodynamically, exhibiting phenomena associated with classical fluids, such as vortices …

Resistivity plateau and extreme magnetoresistance in LaSb

FF Tafti, QD Gibson, SK Kushwaha… - Nature Physics, 2016 - nature.com
Time reversal symmetry (TRS) protects the metallic surface modes of topological insulators
(TIs). The transport signature of such surface states is a plateau that arrests the exponential …