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 …

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 …

Multiple types of topological fermions in transition metal silicides

P Tang, Q Zhou, SC Zhang - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
Exotic massless fermionic excitations with nonzero Berry flux, other than the Dirac and Weyl
fermions, could exist in condensed matter systems under the protection of crystalline …

Room-temperature nonlinear Hall effect and wireless radiofrequency rectification in Weyl semimetal TaIrTe4

D Kumar, CH Hsu, R Sharma, TR Chang, P Yu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The nonlinear Hall effect (NLHE), the phenomenon in which a transverse voltage can be
produced without a magnetic field, provides a potential alternative for rectification or …

Nonlinear photoresponse of type-II Weyl semimetals

J Ma, Q Gu, Y Liu, J Lai, P Yu, X Zhuo, Z Liu, JH Chen… - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
The experimental manifestation of topological effects in bulk materials is attracting enormous
research interest. However, direct experimental evidence of the effective k-space monopole …

Topological Weyl semimetals in the chiral antiferromagnetic materials Mn3Ge and Mn3Sn

H Yang, Y Sun, Y Zhang, WJ Shi… - New Journal of …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent experiments revealed that Mn 3 Sn and Mn 3 Ge exhibit a strong anomalous Hall
effect at room temperature, provoking us to explore their electronic structures for topological …

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 …

Discovery of Weyl fermion semimetals and topological Fermi arc states

MZ Hasan, SY Xu, I Belopolski… - Annual Review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Weyl semimetals are conductors whose low-energy bulk excitations are Weyl fermions,
whereas their surfaces possess metallic Fermi arc surface states. These Fermi arc surface …

Field-free switching of perpendicular magnetization at room temperature using out-of-plane spins from TaIrTe4

Y Liu, G Shi, D Kumar, T Kim, S Shi, D Yang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The development of spintronic devices based on spin–orbit torque requires the electrical-
current-driven field-free switching of magnetization in materials with perpendicular magnetic …