Topological acoustics

H Xue, Y Yang, B Zhang - Nature Reviews Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Topological acoustics is an emerging field that lies at the intersection of condensed matter
physics, mechanical structural design and acoustics engineering. It explores the design and …

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 …

All topological bands of all nonmagnetic stoichiometric materials

MG Vergniory, BJ Wieder, L Elcoro, SSP Parkin… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Topological quantum chemistry and symmetry-based indicators have facilitated large-scale
searches for materials with topological properties at the Fermi energy (EF). We report the …

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 …

Higher-Order Topology, Monopole Nodal Lines, and the Origin of Large Fermi Arcs in Transition Metal Dichalcogenides ()

Z Wang, BJ Wieder, J Li, B Yan, BA Bernevig - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
In recent years, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have garnered great interest as
topological materials. In particular, monolayers of centrosymmetric β-phase TMDs have …

Observation of unconventional chiral fermions with long Fermi arcs in CoSi

Z Rao, H Li, T Zhang, S Tian, C Li, B Fu, C Tang… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Chirality—the geometric property of objects that do not coincide with their mirror image—is
found in nature, for example, in molecules, crystals, galaxies and life forms. In quantum field …

Topological chiral crystals with helicoid-arc quantum states

DS Sanchez, I Belopolski, TA Cochran, X Xu, JX Yin… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The quantum behaviour of electrons in materials is the foundation of modern electronics and
information technology,,,,,,,,,–, and quantum materials with topological electronic and optical …

Topological materials discovery from crystal symmetry

BJ Wieder, B Bradlyn, J Cano, Z Wang… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Topological materials discovery has evolved at a rapid pace over the past 15 years following
the identification of the first nonmagnetic topological insulators (TIs), topological crystalline …

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 …