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 …

Two-dimensional topological semimetals

X Feng, J Zhu, W Wu, SA Yang - Chinese Physics B, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The field of two-dimensional topological semimetals, which emerged at the intersection of
two-dimensional materials and topological materials, has been rapidly developing in recent …

Evidence for topological type-II Weyl semimetal WTe2

P Li, Y Wen, X He, Q Zhang, C Xia, ZM Yu… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Recently, a type-II Weyl fermion was theoretically predicted to appear at the contact of
electron and hole Fermi surface pockets. A distinguishing feature of the surfaces of type-II …

Discovery of Lorentz-violating type II Weyl fermions in LaAlGe

SY Xu, N Alidoust, G Chang, H Lu, B Singh… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
In quantum field theory, Weyl fermions are relativistic particles that travel at the speed of light
and strictly obey the celebrated Lorentz symmetry. Their low-energy condensed matter …

Observation of chiral zero mode in inhomogeneous three-dimensional Weyl metamaterials

H Jia, R Zhang, W Gao, Q Guo, B Yang, J Hu, Y Bi… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Owing to the chirality of Weyl nodes, the Weyl systems can support one-way chiral zero
modes under a strong magnetic field, which leads to nonconservation of chiral currents—the …

Field-selective anomaly and chiral mode reversal in type-II Weyl materials

M Udagawa, EJ Bergholtz - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
Three-dimensional condensed matter incarnations of Weyl fermions generically have a tilted
dispersion—in sharp contrast to their elusive high-energy relatives where a tilt is forbidden …

Type-III Weyl semimetals:

XP Li, K Deng, B Fu, YK Li, DS Ma, JF Han, J Zhou… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Weyl semimetals have been classified into type I and type II with respect to the geometry of
their Fermi surfaces at the Weyl points. we propose another class of Weyl semimetal, whose …

Hybrid nodal loop metal: Unconventional magnetoresponse and material realization

X Zhang, ZM Yu, Y Lu, XL Sheng, HY Yang, SA Yang - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
A nodal loop is formed by a band crossing along a one-dimensional closed manifold, with
each point on the loop a linear nodal point in the transverse dimensions, and can be …

Planar Hall effect in tilted Weyl semimetals

D Ma, H Jiang, H Liu, XC Xie - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
In the semiclassical regime, the chiral anomaly of the Weyl semimetals is demonstrated by
the quadratic longitudinal magnetoconductivity. Recently the planar Hall effect is proposed …

Black-hole horizon in the Dirac semimetal

H Huang, KH Jin, F Liu - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
Recently, realizing new fermions, such as type-I and type-II Dirac/Weyl fermions in
condensed matter systems, has attracted considerable attention. Here, we show that the …