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 …

Lithium–sulfur battery cathode design: tailoring metal‐based nanostructures for robust polysulfide adsorption and catalytic conversion

SF Ng, MYL Lau, WJ Ong - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Lithium–sulfur (Li‐S) batteries have a high specific energy capacity and density of
1675 mAh g− 1 and 2670 Wh kg− 1, respectively, rendering them among the most promising …

Nanostructured metal phosphides: from controllable synthesis to sustainable catalysis

SH Li, MY Qi, ZR Tang, YJ Xu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal phosphides (MPs) with unique and desirable physicochemical properties provide
promising potential in practical applications, such as the catalysis, gas/humidity sensor …

Topological Axion States in the Magnetic Insulator with the Quantized Magnetoelectric Effect

D Zhang, M Shi, T Zhu, D Xing, H Zhang, J Wang - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
Topological states of quantum matter have attracted great attention in condensed matter
physics and materials science. The study of time-reversal-invariant topological states in …

All topological bands of all nonmagnetic stoichiometric materials

MG Vergniory, BJ Wieder, L Elcoro, SSP Parkin… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Topological quantum chemistry and symmetry-based indicators have facilitated large-scale
searches for materials with topological properties at the Fermi energy (EF). We report the …

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 …

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 …

Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and its application to topological materials

B Lv, T Qian, H Ding - Nature Reviews Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES)—an experimental technique based
on the photoelectric effect—is arguably the most powerful method for probing the electronic …

Observation of unconventional chiral fermions with long Fermi arcs in CoSi

Z Rao, H Li, T Zhang, S Tian, C Li, B Fu, C Tang… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Chirality—the geometric property of objects that do not coincide with their mirror image—is
found in nature, for example, in molecules, crystals, galaxies and life forms. In quantum field …

Topological materials discovery from crystal symmetry

BJ Wieder, B Bradlyn, J Cano, Z Wang… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Topological materials discovery has evolved at a rapid pace over the past 15 years following
the identification of the first nonmagnetic topological insulators (TIs), topological crystalline …