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 …

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 …

Fermi Arcs and Their Topological Character in the Candidate Type-II Weyl Semimetal

A Tamai, QS Wu, I Cucchi, FY Bruno, S Riccò, TK Kim… - Physical Review X, 2016 - APS
We report a combined experimental and theoretical study of the candidate type-II Weyl
semimetal MoTe 2. Using laser-based angle-resolved photoemission, we resolve multiple …

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 …

Discovery of a new type of topological Weyl fermion semimetal state in MoxW1−xTe2

I Belopolski, DS Sanchez, Y Ishida, X Pan, P Yu… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The recent discovery of a Weyl semimetal in TaAs offers the first Weyl fermion observed in
nature and dramatically broadens the classification of topological phases. However, in TaAs …

Magnetic breakdown and Klein tunneling in a type-II Weyl semimetal

TE O'Brien, M Diez, CWJ Beenakker - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
The band structure of a type-II Weyl semimetal has pairs of electron and hole pockets that
coexist over a range of energies and touch at a topologically protected conical point. We …

Characterization of Few-Layer 1T′ MoTe2 by Polarization-Resolved Second Harmonic Generation and Raman Scattering

R Beams, LG Cançado, S Krylyuk, I Kalish… - ACS …, 2016 - ACS Publications
We study the crystal symmetry of few-layer 1T′ MoTe2 using the polarization dependence
of the second harmonic generation (SHG) and Raman scattering. Bulk 1T′ MoTe2 is known …

Nearly massless Dirac fermions and strong Zeeman splitting in the nodal-line semimetal ZrSiS probed by de Haas–van Alphen quantum oscillations

J Hu, Z Tang, J Liu, Y Zhu, J Wei, Z Mao - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
Topological semimetals represent a new class of quantum materials hosting Dirac/Weyl
fermions. The essential properties of topological fermions can be revealed by quantum …

Raman signatures of inversion symmetry breaking and structural phase transition in type-II Weyl semimetal MoTe2

K Zhang, C Bao, Q Gu, X Ren, H Zhang, K Deng… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Transition metal dichalcogenide MoTe2 is an important candidate for realizing the newly
predicted type-II Weyl fermions, for which the breaking of the inversion symmetry is a …

Direct 3D mapping of the Fermi surface and Fermi velocity

K Medjanik, O Fedchenko, S Chernov, D Kutnyakhov… - Nature Materials, 2017 - nature.com
We performed a full mapping of the bulk electronic structure including the Fermi surface and
Fermi-velocity distribution v F (k F) of tungsten. The 4D spectral function ρ (EB; k) in the …