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 …

Resistivity plateau and extreme magnetoresistance in LaSb

FF Tafti, QD Gibson, SK Kushwaha… - Nature Physics, 2016 - nature.com
Time reversal symmetry (TRS) protects the metallic surface modes of topological insulators
(TIs). The transport signature of such surface states is a plateau that arrests the exponential …

π Berry phase and Zeeman splitting of Weyl semimetal TaP

J Hu, JY Liu, D Graf, SMA Radmanesh, DJ Adams… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The recent breakthrough in the discovery of Weyl fermions in monopnictide semimetals
provides opportunities to explore the exotic properties of relativistic fermions in condensed …

Magnetic-tunnelling-induced Weyl node annihilation in TaP

CL Zhang, SY Xu, CM Wang, Z Lin, ZZ Du, C Guo… - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
Weyl nodes are topological objects in three-dimensional metals. Whereas the energy of the
lowest Landau band of a conventional Fermi pocket increases with magnetic field due to the …

Fragile phases as affine monoids: classification and material examples

ZD Song, L Elcoro, YF Xu, N Regnault, BA Bernevig - Physical Review X, 2020 - APS
Topological phases in electronic structures contain a new type of topology, called fragile,
which can arise, for example, when an elementary band representation (atomic limit band) …

Absorption of circular polarized light in tilted type-I and type-II Weyl semimetals

SP Mukherjee, JP Carbotte - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
We calculate the ac optical response to circularly polarized light of a Weyl semimetal (WSM)
with varying amounts of tilt of the Dirac cones. Both type-I and-II (overtilted) WSMs are …

Anomalous DC Hall response in noncentrosymmetric tilted Weyl semimetals

SP Mukherjee, JP Carbotte - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Weyl nodes come in pairs of opposite chirality. For broken time reversal symmetry (TR) they
are displaced in momentum space by ${\bf Q} $ and the anomalous DC Hall conductivity …

[PDF][PDF] Quantum phase transitions in Weyl semimetal tantalum monophosphide

C Zhang, Z Lin, C Guo, SY Xu, CC Lee… - Preprint at http://arxiv …, 2015 - researchgate.net
Magnetic fields perturb the motion of charged quasi-particles in solids in different ways
including driving a quantum phase transition to a new state. Well-known examples include …

[PDF][PDF] Discovery of a topological semimetal phase coexisting with ferromagnetic behavior in Sr1− yMnSb2 (y~ 0.08)

JY Liu, J Hu, D Graf, SMA Radmanesh… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2017 - researchgate.net
Recent discoveries of three dimensional (3D) topological Dirac semimetals (DSM) in Na3Bi
1, 2 and Cd3As2 3-7 and Weyl semimetals (WSM) in monopnictides TX (T= Ta/Nb, X= As/P) …

Pi Berry phase and Zeeman splitting of TaP probed by high field magnetotransport measurements

J Hu, JY Liu, D Graf, SM Radmanesh… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2015 - arxiv.org
The chiral anomaly-induced negative magnetoresistance and non-trivial Berry phase are
two fundamental transport properties associated with the topological properties of Weyl …