Topological materials: Weyl semimetals

B Yan, C Felser - Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, 2017 - annualreviews.org
… show linear dispersion around nodes, termed the Dirac or Weyl points, as the three-…
topological states of matter from the materials perspective with a special focus on Weyl semimetals. …

Minimal models for topological Weyl semimetals

TM McCormick, I Kimchi, N Trivedi - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
… We now turn to a lattice model for a topological Weyl semimetal that breaks inversion symmetry
but is invariant under time reversal. Analogous with Eq. (7), we seek a Hamiltonian ˆH(k) …

Experimental discovery of a topological Weyl semimetal state in TaP

SY Xu, I Belopolski, DS Sanchez, C Zhang… - Science …, 2015 - science.org
topological and trivial surface states on a Weyl semimetal’s … the topologically nontrivial nature
of the Weyl semimetal state in … closed path that encloses the Weyl node. This also provides, …

Topological Weyl semimetals in the chiral antiferromagnetic materials Mn3Ge and Mn3Sn

H Yang, Y Sun, Y Zhang, WJ Shi… - New Journal of …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
… In summary, we have discovered the Weyl semimetal state in the chiral AFM compounds
Mn 3 Sn and Mn 3 Ge by ab initio band structure calculations. Multiple Weyl points were …

Linear magnetoconductivity in an intrinsic topological Weyl semimetal

SB Zhang, HZ Lu, SQ Shen - New Journal of Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
… a semimetal phase when the Fermi energy crosses the Weyl … of a topological Weyl semimetal
near the Weyl nodes with the … that includes all the topological semimetal properties. In the …

Extremely large magnetoresistance and ultrahigh mobility in the topological Weyl semimetal candidate NbP

C Shekhar, AK Nayak, Y Sun, M Schmidt, M Nicklas… - Nature Physics, 2015 - nature.com
… These systems are known as Weyl semimetals, and are … ,5,6,7 , distinct from those of
topological insulators 8,9 . Here we … of a Weyl semimetal 10,11 with those of a normal semimetal. …

Weyl semimetal in a topological insulator multilayer

AA Burkov, L Balents - Physical review letters, 2011 - APS
… Reference [2] has proposed a possible realization of a Weyl semimetal with 24 … the Weyl
semimetal, not relying on strong correlations in a rather complex material. The Weyl semimetal

Surface plasmon polaritons in topological Weyl semimetals

J Hofmann, S Das Sarma - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
… hence are not found in Dirac semimetals or small-gap … in Weyl systems arising purely from
their topological properties. Here, we show that the topological properties of Weyl semimetals

Higher-order Weyl semimetals

HX Wang, ZK Lin, B Jiang, GY Guo, JH Jiang - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
… We demonstrate that higherorder Weyl semimetals can emerge in chiral materials such as
Weyl semimetal and 3D higher-order topological phases. Higher-order Weyl semimetals

Type-ii weyl semimetals

AA Soluyanov, D Gresch, Z Wang, QS Wu, M Troyer… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
… -II Weyl semimetals. We predict that WTe 2 is an example of a topological semimetal hosting
the … More recently, the Weyl semimetal was predicted to exist in inversion-breaking single-…