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 …

Topological superconductors from a materials perspective

M Mandal, NC Drucker, P Siriviboon… - Chemistry of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Topological superconductors (TSCs) have garnered significant research and industry
attention in the past two decades. By hosting Majorana bound states which can be used as …

Material realization of double-Weyl phonons and phononic double-helicoid surface arcs with space group

M Zhong, Y Han, J Wang, Y Liu, X Wang, G Zhang - Physical Review Materials, 2022 - APS
Unconventional chiral quasiparticles with twofold, threefold, and fourfold degeneracies and
Chern number (C)=±2 have recently sparked interest because of their topological chirality in …

Emergent superconductivity in topological-kagome-magnet/metal heterostructures

H Wang, Y Liu, M Gong, H Jiang, X Gao, W Ma… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Itinerant kagome lattice magnets exhibit many novel correlated and topological quantum
electronic states with broken time-reversal symmetry. Superconductivity, however, has not …

Cycling Fermi arc electrons with Weyl orbits

C Zhang, Y Zhang, HZ Lu, XC Xie, F Xiu - Nature Reviews Physics, 2021 - nature.com
The Weyl orbit refers to a new type of cyclotron orbit recently proposed in Weyl semimetals.
This is a surface–bulk hybrid orbit that can be modulated by thickness and external fields …

Topological nodal line state in superconducting NaAlSi compound

L Jin, X Zhang, T He, W Meng, X Dai… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Superconductors with a nontrivial band structure are promising to realize a topological
superconducting state. Herein, we report the presence of a topological phase in a well …

Experimental signature of topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes on β-Bi2Pd thin films

YF Lv, WL Wang, YM Zhang, H Ding, W Li, L Wang… - Science bulletin, 2017 - Elsevier
The search for Majorana fermions in topological superconductors is one of paramount
research targets in physics today. Using a cryogenic scanning tunneling microscopy, we …

Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain with one pair of 𝒫 𝒯-symmetric defects

L Jin, P Wang, Z Song - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
The topologically nontrivial edge states induce 𝒫 𝒯 transition in Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH)
chain with one pair of gain and loss at boundaries. In this study, we investigated a pair of 𝒫 …

Ideal Weyl semimetal with 3D spin-orbit coupled ultracold quantum gas

YH Lu, BZ Wang, XJ Liu - Science Bulletin, 2020 - Elsevier
There is an immense effort in search for various types of Weyl semimetals, of which the most
fundamental phase consists of the minimal number of ie two Weyl points, but is hard to …

[HTML][HTML] Pressure-induced physical properties in topological semi-metals MAs2M= Hf, Ti

M Khan, MR Hossain, ML Ali - Results in Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
The present study employs first-principles DFT-based calculations within the generalized
gradient approximation (GGA) to reveal various physical feature (including structural, elastic …