gapless bulk excitations, which are characterized by topological invariants and protected
intrinsic boundary states. Here we show that topological semimetals of Majorana fermions
arise in exactly solvable Kitaev spin models on a series of three-dimensional lattices. The
ground states of these models are quantum spin liquids with gapless nodal spectra of bulk
Majorana fermion excitations. It is shown that these phases are topologically stable as long …