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 and Dirac semimetals in three-dimensional solids

NP Armitage, EJ Mele, A Vishwanath - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2018 - APS
Weyl and Dirac semimetals are three-dimensional phases of matter with gapless electronic
excitations that are protected by topology and symmetry. As three-dimensional analogs of …

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 …

Helicity-dependent photocurrents in the chiral Weyl semimetal RhSi

D Rees, K Manna, B Lu, T Morimoto, H Borrmann… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Weyl semimetals are crystals in which electron bands cross at isolated points in momentum
space. Associated with each crossing point (or Weyl node) is a topological invariant known …

Berry curvature dipole in Weyl semimetal materials: An ab initio study

Y Zhang, Y Sun, B Yan - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
Noncentrosymmetric metals are anticipated to exhibit a dc photocurrent in the nonlinear
optical response caused by the Berry curvature dipole in momentum space. Weyl …

Semimetals for high-performance photodetection

J Liu, F Xia, D Xiao, FJ Garcia de Abajo, D Sun - Nature materials, 2020 - nature.com
Semimetals are being explored for their unique advantages in low-energy high-speed
photodetection, although they suffer from serious drawbacks such as an intrinsically high …

Quantized circular photogalvanic effect in Weyl semimetals

F De Juan, AG Grushin, T Morimoto… - Nature communications, 2017 - nature.com
The circular photogalvanic effect (CPGE) is the part of a photocurrent that switches
depending on the sense of circular polarization of the incident light. It has been consistently …

Topology and geometry under the nonlinear electromagnetic spotlight

Q Ma, AG Grushin, KS Burch - Nature materials, 2021 - nature.com
For many materials, a precise knowledge of their dispersion spectra is insufficient to predict
their ordered phases and physical responses. Instead, these materials are classified by the …

Light control with Weyl semimetals

C Guo, VS Asadchy, B Zhao, S Fan - Elight, 2023 - Springer
Weyl semimetals are topological materials whose electron quasiparticles obey the Weyl
equation. They possess many unusual properties that may lead to new applications. This is …

Unconventional chiral fermions and large topological Fermi arcs in RhSi

G Chang, SY Xu, BJ Wieder, DS Sanchez, SM Huang… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
The theoretical proposal of chiral fermions in topological semimetals has led to a significant
effort towards their experimental realization. In particular, the Fermi surfaces of chiral …