Observation of the chiral-anomaly-induced negative magnetoresistance in 3D Weyl semimetal TaAs

X Huang, L Zhao, Y Long, P Wang, D Chen, Z Yang… - Physical Review X, 2015 - APS
Weyl semimetal is the three-dimensional analog of graphene. According to quantum field
theory, the appearance of Weyl points near the Fermi level will cause novel transport …

Dirac cone protected by non-symmorphic symmetry and three-dimensional Dirac line node in ZrSiS

LM Schoop, MN Ali, C Straßer, A Topp… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Materials harbouring exotic quasiparticles, such as massless Dirac and Weyl fermions, have
garnered much attention from physics and material science communities due to their …

Chiral magnetic effect in ZrTe5

Q Li, DE Kharzeev, C Zhang, Y Huang, I Pletikosić… - Nature Physics, 2016 - nature.com
The chiral magnetic effect is the generation of an electric current induced by chirality
imbalance in the presence of a magnetic field. It is a macroscopic manifestation of the …

Prediction of Weyl semimetal in orthorhombic

Y Sun, SC Wu, MN Ali, C Felser, B Yan - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
We investigate the orthorhombic phase (T d) of the layered transition-metal dichalcogenide
MoTe 2 as a Weyl semimetal candidate. MoTe 2 exhibits four pairs of Weyl points lying …

[HTML][HTML] Signatures of the Adler–Bell–Jackiw chiral anomaly in a Weyl fermion semimetal

CL Zhang, SY Xu, I Belopolski, Z Yuan, Z Lin… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Weyl semimetals provide the realization of Weyl fermions in solid-state physics. Among all
the physical phenomena that are enabled by Weyl semimetals, the chiral anomaly is the …

Negative magnetoresistance in Weyl semimetals NbAs and NbP: Intrinsic chiral anomaly and extrinsic effects

Y Li, Z Wang, P Li, X Yang, Z Shen, F Sheng, X Li… - Frontiers of …, 2017 - Springer
Chiral anomaly-induced negative magnetoresistance (NMR) has been widely used as
critical transport evidence for the existence of Weyl fermions in topological semimetals. In …

Observation of Weyl nodes and Fermi arcs in tantalum phosphide

N Xu, HM Weng, BQ Lv, CE Matt, J Park, F Bisti… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
A Weyl semimetal possesses spin-polarized band-crossings, called Weyl nodes, connected
by topological surface arcs. The low-energy excitations near the crossing points behave the …

Gate-tunable negative longitudinal magnetoresistance in the predicted type-II Weyl semimetal WTe2

Y Wang, E Liu, H Liu, Y Pan, L Zhang, J Zeng… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The progress in exploiting new electronic materials has been a major driving force in solid-
state physics. As a new state of matter, a Weyl semimetal (WSM), in particular a type-II WSM …

Topological surface states and Fermi arcs of the noncentrosymmetric Weyl semimetals TaAs, TaP, NbAs, and NbP

Y Sun, SC Wu, B Yan - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
Very recently the topological Weyl semimetal (WSM) state was predicted in the
noncentrosymmetric compounds NbP, NbAs, TaP, and TaAs and soon led to photoemission …

Fermi surface interconnectivity and topology in Weyl fermion semimetals TaAs, TaP, NbAs, and NbP

CC Lee, SY Xu, SM Huang, DS Sanchez, I Belopolski… - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
The family of binary compounds including TaAs, TaP, NbAs, and NbP was recently
discovered as the first realization of Weyl semimetals. In order to develop a comprehensive …