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 …

Encyclopedia of emergent particles in three-dimensional crystals

ZM Yu, Z Zhang, GB Liu, W Wu, XP Li, RW Zhang… - Science Bulletin, 2022 - Elsevier
The past decade has witnessed a surge of interest in exploring emergent particles in
condensed matter systems. Novel particles, emerged as excitations around exotic band …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] Lorentz-violating type-II Dirac fermions in transition metal dichalcogenide PtTe2

M Yan, H Huang, K Zhang, E Wang, W Yao… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Topological semimetals have recently attracted extensive research interests as host
materials to condensed matter physics counterparts of Dirac and Weyl fermions originally …

Single pair of type-III Weyl points half-metals: as an example

G Ding, J Wang, ZM Yu, Z Zhang, W Wang… - Physical Review Materials, 2023 - APS
The realization of Weyl systems with the minimum nonzero number of Weyl points (WPs)
and full spin polarization remains challenging in topology physics and spintronic. In this …

Discovery of Lorentz-violating type II Weyl fermions in LaAlGe

SY Xu, N Alidoust, G Chang, H Lu, B Singh… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
In quantum field theory, Weyl fermions are relativistic particles that travel at the speed of light
and strictly obey the celebrated Lorentz symmetry. Their low-energy condensed matter …

Type-II nodal loops: Theory and material realization

S Li, ZM Yu, Y Liu, S Guan, SS Wang, X Zhang, Y Yao… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
A nodal loop appears when two bands, typically one electronlike and one holelike, are
crossing each other linearly along a one-dimensional manifold in reciprocal space. Here, we …

Observation of chiral zero mode in inhomogeneous three-dimensional Weyl metamaterials

H Jia, R Zhang, W Gao, Q Guo, B Yang, J Hu, Y Bi… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Owing to the chirality of Weyl nodes, the Weyl systems can support one-way chiral zero
modes under a strong magnetic field, which leads to nonconservation of chiral currents—the …

Evidence of higher-order topology in multilayer WTe2 from Josephson coupling through anisotropic hinge states

YB Choi, Y Xie, CZ Chen, J Park, SB Song, J Yoon… - Nature Materials, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Td-WTe2 (non-centrosymmetric and orthorhombic), a type-II Weyl semimetal, is
expected to have higher-order topological phases with topologically protected, helical one …