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 …

Scanning probe microscopy

K Bian, C Gerber, AJ Heinrich, DJ Müller… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Scanning probe microscopy (SPM), a key invention in nanoscience, has by now been
extended to a wide spectrum of basic and applied fields. Its application to basic science led …

Fermi-arc diversity on surface terminations of the magnetic Weyl semimetal Co3Sn2S2

N Morali, R Batabyal, PK Nag, E Liu, Q Xu, Y Sun… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Bulk–surface correspondence in Weyl semimetals ensures the formation of topological
“Fermi arc” surface bands whose existence is guaranteed by bulk Weyl nodes. By …

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 …

WannierTools: An open-source software package for novel topological materials

QS Wu, SN Zhang, HF Song, M Troyer… - Computer Physics …, 2018 - Elsevier
We present an open-source software package WannierTools, a tool for investigation of novel
topological materials. This code works in the tight-binding framework, which can be …

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 …

Topological materials: Weyl semimetals

B Yan, C Felser - Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Topological insulators and topological semimetals are both new classes of quantum
materials, which are characterized by surface states induced by the topology of the bulk …

Topological materials discovery from crystal symmetry

BJ Wieder, B Bradlyn, J Cano, Z Wang… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Topological materials discovery has evolved at a rapid pace over the past 15 years following
the identification of the first nonmagnetic topological insulators (TIs), topological crystalline …

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 …

Direct optical detection of Weyl fermion chirality in a topological semimetal

Q Ma, SY Xu, CK Chan, CL Zhang, G Chang, Y Lin… - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
A Weyl semimetal is a novel topological phase of matter,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, in which Weyl fermions
arise as pseudo-magnetic monopoles in its momentum space. The chirality of the Weyl …