Experimental evidence for type-II Dirac semimetal in

K Zhang, M Yan, H Zhang, H Huang, M Arita, Z Sun… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
While a monolayer PtSe 2 film is a semiconductor with interesting spin structure, bulk PtSe 2
crystal has been predicted to be a topological Dirac semimetal that can host a new type of …

Observation of the universal magnetoelectric effect in a 3D topological insulator

V Dziom, A Shuvaev, A Pimenov, GV Astakhov… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The electrodynamics of topological insulators (TIs) is described by modified Maxwell's
equations, which contain additional terms that couple an electric field to a magnetization and …

Lorentz violation in Dirac and Weyl semimetals

VA Kostelecký, R Lehnert, N McGinnis, M Schreck… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
We propose a correspondence between the description of emergent Lorentz symmetry in
condensed-matter systems and the established general effective field theory for Lorentz …

Observation of a topologically non-trivial surface state in half-Heusler PtLuSb (001) thin films

JA Logan, SJ Patel, SD Harrington, CM Polley… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The discovery of topological insulators, materials with bulk band gaps and protected cross-
gap surface states in compounds such as Bi2Se3, has generated much interest in identifying …

Magneto-optical conductivity in generic Weyl semimetals

M Stålhammar, J Larana-Aragon, J Knolle… - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
Magneto-optical studies of Weyl semimetals have been proposed as a versatile tool for
observing low-energy Weyl fermions in candidate materials including the chiral Landau …

Topological surface state of on InSb(001) as studied by photoemission

MR Scholz, VA Rogalev, L Dudy, F Reis, F Adler… - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
We report on the electronic structure of the elemental topological semimetal α− Sn on InSb
(001). High-resolution angle-resolved photoemission data allow us to observe the …

Observation of Volkov-Pankratov states in topological HgTe heterojunctions using high-frequency compressibility

A Inhofer, S Tchoumakov, BA Assaf, G Feve, JM Berroir… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
It is well established that topological insulators sustain Dirac fermion surface states as a
consequence of band inversion in the bulk. These states have a helical spin polarization …

[HTML][HTML] Non-equilibrium electron transport induced by terahertz radiation in the topological and trivial phases of Hg1− xCdxTe

AV Galeeva, AI Artamkin, AS Kazakov… - Beilstein Journal of …, 2018 - beilstein-journals.org
Terahertz photoconductivity in heterostructures based on n-type Hg 1− x Cd x Te epitaxial
films both in the topological phase (x< 0.16, inverted band structure, zero band gap) and the …

Double band inversion in -Sn: Appearance of topological surface states and the role of orbital composition

VA Rogalev, T Rauch, MR Scholz, F Reis, L Dudy… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
The electronic structure of α-Sn (001) thin films strained compressively in-plane was studied
both experimentally and theoretically. A new topological surface state (TSS) located entirely …

Dielectric and electronic properties of three-dimensional Luttinger semimetals with a quadratic band touching

S Tchoumakov, W Witczak-Krempa - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Due to strong spin-orbit coupling, charge carriers in three-dimensionsal quadratic-band-
touching Luttinger semimetals have nontrivial wave functions characterized by a pseudospin …