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 …

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 …

Magnetic Weyl semimetal phase in a Kagomé crystal

DF Liu, AJ Liang, EK Liu, QN Xu, YW Li, C Chen, D Pei… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Weyl semimetals are crystalline solids that host emergent relativistic Weyl fermions and
have characteristic surface Fermi-arcs in their electronic structure. Weyl semimetals with …

An ab-initio study on structural, elastic, electronic, bonding, thermal, and optical properties of topological Weyl semimetal TaX (X = P, As)

MI Naher, SH Naqib - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
In recent days, study of topological Weyl semimetals have become an active branch of
physics and materials science because they led to realization of the Weyl fermions and …

A Weyl Fermion semimetal with surface Fermi arcs in the transition metal monopnictide TaAs class

SM Huang, SY Xu, I Belopolski, CC Lee… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Weyl fermions are massless chiral fermions that play an important role in quantum field
theory but have never been observed as fundamental particles. A Weyl semimetal is an …

Topological nodal-line fermions in spin-orbit metal PbTaSe2

G Bian, TR Chang, R Sankar, SY Xu, H Zheng… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Topological semimetals can support one-dimensional Fermi lines or zero-dimensional Weyl
points in momentum space, where the valence and conduction bands touch. While the …

Weyl semimetal phase in the non-centrosymmetric compound TaAs

LX Yang, ZK Liu, Y Sun, H Peng, HF Yang, T Zhang… - Nature physics, 2015 - nature.com
Abstract Three-dimensional (3D) topologicalWeyl semimetals (TWSs) represent a state of
quantum matter with unusual electronic structures that resemble both a '3D graphene'and a …

Discovery of a Weyl fermion state with Fermi arcs in niobium arsenide

SY Xu, N Alidoust, I Belopolski, Z Yuan, G Bian… - Nature Physics, 2015 - nature.com
Three types of fermions play a fundamental role in our understanding of nature: Dirac,
Majorana and Weyl. Whereas Dirac fermions have been known for decades, the latter two …

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 …

Discovery of a Weyl fermion semimetal and topological Fermi arcs

SY Xu, I Belopolski, N Alidoust, M Neupane, G Bian… - Science, 2015 - science.org
A Weyl semimetal is a new state of matter that hosts Weyl fermions as emergent
quasiparticles and admits a topological classification that protects Fermi arc surface states …