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 …

WannierTools: An open-source software package for novel topological materials

QS Wu, SN Zhang, HF Song, M Troyer… - Computer Physics …, 2018 - Elsevier
We present an open-source software package WannierTools, a tool for investigation of novel
topological materials. This code works in the tight-binding framework, which can be …

Triple point topological metals

Z Zhu, GW Winkler, QS Wu, J Li, AA Soluyanov - Physical Review X, 2016 - APS
Topologically protected fermionic quasiparticles appear in metals, where band
degeneracies occur at the Fermi level, dictated by the band structure topology. While in …

Z2Pack: Numerical implementation of hybrid Wannier centers for identifying topological materials

D Gresch, G Autes, OV Yazyev, M Troyer, D Vanderbilt… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
The intense theoretical and experimental interest in topological insulators and semimetals
has established band structure topology as a fundamental material property. Consequently …

Observation of three-component fermions in the topological semimetal molybdenum phosphide

BQ Lv, ZL Feng, QN Xu, X Gao, JZ Ma, LY Kong… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
In quantum field theory, Lorentz invariance leads to three types of fermion—Dirac, Weyl and
Majorana. Although the existence of Weyl and Majorana fermions as elementary particles in …

Scalable designs for quasiparticle-poisoning-protected topological quantum computation with Majorana zero modes

T Karzig, C Knapp, RM Lutchyn, P Bonderson… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
We present designs for scalable quantum computers composed of qubits encoded in
aggregates of four or more Majorana zero modes, realized at the ends of topological …

Topological semimetals predicted from first-principles calculations

H Weng, X Dai, Z Fang - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We have given a summary on our theoretical predictions of three kinds of topological
semimetals (TSMs), namely, Dirac semimetal (DSM), Weyl semimetal (WSM) and node-line …

Topological semimetals with triply degenerate nodal points in -phase tantalum nitride

H Weng, C Fang, Z Fang, X Dai - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
Using first-principles calculation and symmetry analysis, we propose that θ-TaN is a
topological semimetal having a new type of point nodes, ie, triply degenerate nodal points …

Chemical principles of topological semimetals

LM Schoop, F Pielnhofer, BV Lotsch - Chemistry of Materials, 2018 - ACS Publications
Initiated by the discovery of topological insulators, topologically non-trivial materials have
attracted immense interest in the physics community in the past decade. One of the latest …