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 …

Topological phases in acoustic and mechanical systems

G Ma, M Xiao, CT Chan - Nature Reviews Physics, 2019 - nature.com
The study of classical wave physics has been reinvigorated by incorporating the concept of
the geometric phase, which has its roots in optics, and topological notions that were …

Topological nodal line phonons: Recent advances in materials realization

X Wang, T Yang, Z Cheng, G Surucu, J Wang… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The topological phenomenon has been extensively studied in condensed matter physics
and has attracted much attention in many different fields. Like electrons, phonons can also …

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 sound

X Zhang, M Xiao, Y Cheng, MH Lu… - Communications …, 2018 - nature.com
Recently, we witnessed a tremendous effort to conquer the realm of acoustics as a possible
playground to test with topologically protected sound wave propagation. In this article, we …

Observation of a phononic higher-order Weyl semimetal

L Luo, HX Wang, ZK Lin, B Jiang, Y Wu, F Li… - Nature Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Weyl semimetals (WSMs) exhibit phenomena such as Fermi arc surface states, pseudo-
gauge fields and quantum anomalies that arise from topological band degeneracy in …

Topological phononics: from fundamental models to real materials

Y Liu, X Chen, Y Xu - Advanced Functional Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Effective manipulation of phonons is crucial to modern energy‐information science and
technologies but limited by the charge neutral and spinless nature of phonons. Recently …

Truly chiral phonons in α-HgS

K Ishito, H Mao, Y Kousaka, Y Togawa, S Iwasaki… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Chirality is a manifestation of the asymmetry inherent in nature. It has been defined as the
symmetry breaking of the parity of static objects, and the definition was extended to dynamic …