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 …

Weyl and Dirac semimetals in three-dimensional solids

NP Armitage, EJ Mele, A Vishwanath - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2018 - APS
Weyl and Dirac semimetals are three-dimensional phases of matter with gapless electronic
excitations that are protected by topology and symmetry. As three-dimensional analogs of …

[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 Dirac semimetal Cd3As2

H Li, H He, HZ Lu, H Zhang, H Liu, R Ma, Z Fan… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
A large negative magnetoresistance (NMR) is anticipated in topological semimetals in
parallel magnetic fields, demonstrating the chiral anomaly, a long-sought high-energy …

Strong intrinsic spin Hall effect in the TaAs family of Weyl semimetals

Y Sun, Y Zhang, C Felser, B Yan - Physical Review Letters, 2016 - APS
Since their discovery, topological insulators are expected to be ideal spintronic materials
owing to the spin currents carried by surface states with spin-momentum locking. However …

Transport evidence for the three-dimensional Dirac semimetal phase in

G Zheng, J Lu, X Zhu, W Ning, Y Han, H Zhang… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
Topological Dirac semimetal is a newly discovered class of materials which has attracted
intense attention. This material can be viewed as a three-dimensional (3D) analog of …

3D quantum Hall effect of Fermi arcs in topological semimetals

CM Wang, HP Sun, HZ Lu, XC Xie - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
The quantum Hall effect is usually observed in 2D systems. We show that the Fermi arcs can
give rise to a distinctive 3D quantum Hall effect in topological semimetals. Because of the …

Recent progress in the study of topological semimetals

A Bernevig, H Weng, Z Fang, X Dai - … of the Physical Society of Japan, 2018 - journals.jps.jp
The topological semimetal is a new, theoretically predicted and experimentally discovered,
topological state of matter. In one of its several realizations, the topological semimetal hosts …

Not quite a black hole

B Holdom, J Ren - Physical Review D, 2017 - APS
Astrophysical black hole candidates, although long thought to have a horizon, could be
horizonless ultracompact objects. This intriguing possibility is motivated by the black hole …

Giant anisotropic magnetoresistance and planar Hall effect in the Dirac semimetal

H Li, HW Wang, H He, J Wang, SQ Shen - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
Anisotropic magnetoresistance is the change tendency of resistance of a material on the
mutual orientation of the electric current and the external magnetic field. Here, we report …