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, Dirac and high-fold chiral fermions in topological quantum matter

MZ Hasan, G Chang, I Belopolski, G Bian… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Quantum materials hosting Weyl fermions have opened a new era of research in condensed
matter physics. First proposed in 1929 in the context of particle physics, Weyl fermions have …

Catalogue of topological electronic materials

T Zhang, Y Jiang, Z Song, H Huang, Y He, Z Fang… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Topological electronic materials such as bismuth selenide, tantalum arsenide and sodium
bismuthide show unconventional linear response in the bulk, as well as anomalous gapless …

Topological negative refraction of surface acoustic waves in a Weyl phononic crystal

H He, C Qiu, L Ye, X Cai, X Fan, M Ke, F Zhang, Z Liu - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Reflection and refraction of waves occur at the interface between two different media. These
two fundamental interfacial wave phenomena form the basis of fabricating various wave …

Quantized circular photogalvanic effect in Weyl semimetals

F De Juan, AG Grushin, T Morimoto… - Nature communications, 2017 - nature.com
The circular photogalvanic effect (CPGE) is the part of a photocurrent that switches
depending on the sense of circular polarization of the incident light. It has been consistently …

Experimental discovery of Weyl semimetal TaAs

BQ Lv, HM Weng, BB Fu, XP Wang, H Miao, J Ma… - Physical Review X, 2015 - APS
Weyl semimetals are a class of materials that can be regarded as three-dimensional
analogs of graphene upon breaking time-reversal or inversion symmetry. Electrons in a …

Weyl semimetal phase in noncentrosymmetric transition-metal monophosphides

H Weng, C Fang, Z Fang, BA Bernevig, X Dai - Physical Review X, 2015 - APS
Based on first-principle calculations, we show that a family of nonmagnetic materials
including TaAs, TaP, NbAs, and NbP are Weyl semimetals (WSM) without inversion centers …

Experimental observation of topological Fermi arcs in type-II Weyl semimetal MoTe2

K Deng, G Wan, P Deng, K Zhang, S Ding, E Wang… - Nature Physics, 2016 - nature.com
Weyl semimetal is a new quantum state of matter,,,,,,,,,,, hosting the condensed matter
physics counterpart of the relativistic Weyl fermions originally introduced in high-energy …

Observation of Weyl nodes in TaAs

BQ Lv, N Xu, HM Weng, JZ Ma, P Richard, XC Huang… - Nature Physics, 2015 - nature.com
In 1929, H. Weyl proposed that the massless solution of the Dirac equation represents a pair
of a new type of particles, the so-called Weyl fermions. However, their existence in particle …

Experimental observation of Weyl points

L Lu, Z Wang, D Ye, L Ran, L Fu, JD Joannopoulos… - Science, 2015 - science.org
The massless solutions to the Dirac equation are described by the so-called Weyl
Hamiltonian. The Weyl equation requires a particle to have linear dispersion in all three …