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 …

Inverse design in search of materials with target functionalities

A Zunger - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2018 - nature.com
Solid-state chemists have been consistently successful in envisioning and making new
compounds, often enlisting the tools of theoretical solid-state physics to explain some of the …

Nodal surface semimetals: Theory and material realization

W Wu, Y Liu, S Li, C Zhong, ZM Yu, XL Sheng, YX Zhao… - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
We theoretically study the three-dimensional topological semimetals with nodal surfaces
protected by crystalline symmetries. Different from the well-known nodal-point and nodal …

Topological semimetals from first principles

H Gao, JWF Venderbos, Y Kim… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
We review recent theoretical progress in the understanding and prediction of novel
topological semimetals. Topological semimetals define a class of gapless electronic phases …

Spin-group symmetry in magnetic materials with negligible spin-orbit coupling

P Liu, J Li, J Han, X Wan, Q Liu - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
Symmetry formulated by group theory plays an essential role with respect to the laws of
nature, from fundamental particles to condensed-matter systems. Here, by combining …

Spin-polarized type-II nodal loop and nodal surface states in hexagonal compounds ( = Li, Na, K, Rb)

T Yang, L Jin, Y Liu, X Zhang, X Wang - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Topological semimetals and metals have been extensively studied in nonmagnetic
materials, while those in magnetic materials are still quite rare. Here, based on first …

Topological semimetal nanostructures: From properties to topotronics

AQ Wang, XG Ye, DP Yu, ZM Liao - ACS nano, 2020 - ACS Publications
Characterized by bulk Dirac or Weyl cones and surface Fermi-arc states, topological
semimetals have sparked enormous research interest in recent years. The nanostructures …

Higher-order Dirac fermions in three dimensions

W Wu, ZM Yu, X Zhou, YX Zhao, SA Yang - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
Relativistic massless Weyl and Dirac fermions exhibit the isotropic and linear dispersion
relations to preserve the Pioncaré symmetry, the most fundamental symmetry in high energy …

Role of topological charges in the nonlinear optical response from Weyl semimetals

A Bharti, G Dixit - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The successful realization of the topological Weyl semimetals has revolutionized
contemporary physics. In recent years, multi-Weyl semimetals, a class of topological Weyl …

Uncovering and tailoring hidden Rashba spin–orbit splitting in centrosymmetric crystals

L Yuan, Q Liu, X Zhang, JW Luo, SS Li… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Hidden Rashba and Dresselhaus spin splittings in centrosymmetric crystals with
subunits/sectors having non-centrosymmetric symmetries (the R-2 and D-2 effects) have …