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 …

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 …

Evidence for topological type-II Weyl semimetal WTe2

P Li, Y Wen, X He, Q Zhang, C **a, 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 …

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 …

Single pair of type-III Weyl points half-metals: as an example

G Ding, J Wang, ZM Yu, Z Zhang, W Wang… - Physical Review Materials, 2023 - APS
The realization of Weyl systems with the minimum nonzero number of Weyl points (WPs)
and full spin polarization remains challenging in topology physics and spintronic. In this …

Discovery of Lorentz-violating type II Weyl fermions in LaAlGe

SY Xu, N Alidoust, G Chang, H Lu, B Singh… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
In quantum field theory, Weyl fermions are relativistic particles that travel at the speed of light
and strictly obey the celebrated Lorentz symmetry. Their low-energy condensed matter …

Anisotropic ultrasensitive PdTe2-based phototransistor for room-temperature long-wavelength detection

C Guo, Y Hu, G Chen, D Wei, L Zhang, Z Chen… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Emergent topological Dirac semimetals afford fresh pathways for optoelectronics, although
device implementation has been elusive to date. Specifically, palladium ditelluride (PdTe2) …

Nontrivial Berry phase and type-II Dirac transport in the layered material

F Fei, X Bo, R Wang, B Wu, J Jiang, D Fu, M Gao… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
We report on a systematic study of type-II Dirac fermions in a layered crystal of PdT e 2. De
Haas–van Alphen oscillations show a small Fermi-surface pocket with a cross section of …

Topological Type-II Nodal Line Semimetal and Dirac Semimetal State in Stable Kagome Compound Mg3Bi2

X Zhang, L **, X Dai, G Liu - The journal of physical chemistry …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Topological type-II nodal line semimetal (NLS) was proposed quite recently and exhibits
distinct properties compared with conventional type-I NLS. To date, no ambient-condition …

Topological Type-II Dirac Fermions Approaching the Fermi Level in a Transition Metal Dichalcogenide NiTe2

C Xu, B Li, W Jiao, W Zhou, B Qian, R Sankar… - Chemistry of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Type-II Dirac/Weyl semimetals are characterized by strongly tilted Dirac cones such that the
Dirac/Weyl node emerges at the boundary of electron and hole pockets as a new state of …