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 …

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 …

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 …

Experimental observation of topological Fermi arcs in type-II Weyl semimetal MoTe2

K Deng, G Wan, P Deng, K Zhang, S Ding, E Wang… - Nature Physics, 2016 - nature.com
Weyl semimetal is a new quantum state of matter,,,,,,,,,,, hosting the condensed matter
physics counterpart of the relativistic Weyl fermions originally introduced in high-energy …

Evidence for topological type-II Weyl semimetal WTe2

P Li, Y Wen, X He, Q Zhang, C Xia, ZM Yu… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Recently, a type-II Weyl fermion was theoretically predicted to appear at the contact of
electron and hole Fermi surface pockets. A distinguishing feature of the surfaces of type-II …

Signature of type-II Weyl semimetal phase in MoTe2

J Jiang, ZK Liu, Y Sun, HF Yang, CR Rajamathi… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Topological Weyl semimetal (TWS), a new state of quantum matter, has sparked enormous
research interest recently. Possessing unique Weyl fermions in the bulk and Fermi arcs on …

Transport of topological semimetals

J Hu, SY Xu, N Ni, Z Mao - Annual Review of Materials Research, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Three-dimensional (3D) topological semimetals represent a new class of topological
matters. The study of this family of materials has been at the frontiers of condensed matter …

Weyl semimetals, Fermi arcs and chiral anomalies

S Jia, SY Xu, MZ Hasan - Nature materials, 2016 - nature.com
Physicists have discovered a new topological phase of matter, the Weyl semimetal, whose
surface features a non-closed Fermi surface whereas the low-energy quasiparticles in the …

Observation of Fermi arcs in the type-II Weyl semimetal candidate

Y Wu, D Mou, NH Jo, K Sun, L Huang, SL Bud'ko… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
We use ultrahigh resolution, tunable, vacuum ultraviolet laser angle-resolved photoemission
spectroscopy (ARPES) to study the electronic properties of WTe 2, a material that was …