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 …

Origin of charge density wave in the kagome metal as revealed by optical spectroscopy

X Zhou, Y Li, X Fan, J Hao, Y Dai, Z Wang, Y Yao… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We report on a study of the optical properties of CsV 3 Sb 5 for a large number of
temperatures above and below the charge-density-wave (CDW) transition. Above the CDW …

Weyl semimetal phase in noncentrosymmetric transition-metal monophosphides

H Weng, C Fang, Z Fang, BA Bernevig, X Dai - Physical Review X, 2015 - APS
Based on first-principle calculations, we show that a family of nonmagnetic materials
including TaAs, TaP, NbAs, and NbP are Weyl semimetals (WSM) without inversion centers …

Topological nodal line semimetals with and without spin-orbital coupling

C Fang, Y Chen, HY Kee, L Fu - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
We theoretically study three-dimensional topological semimetals (TSMs) with nodal lines
protected by crystalline symmetries. Compared to TSMs with point nodes, eg, Weyl …

Experimental observation of Weyl points

L Lu, Z Wang, D Ye, L Ran, L Fu, JD Joannopoulos… - Science, 2015 - science.org
The massless solutions to the Dirac equation are described by the so-called Weyl
Hamiltonian. The Weyl equation requires a particle to have linear dispersion in all three …

Spin-orbit physics giving rise to novel phases in correlated systems: Iridates and related materials

JG Rau, EKH Lee, HY Kee - Annual Review of Condensed …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Recently, the effects of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in correlated materials have become one
of the most actively studied subjects in condensed matter physics, as correlations and SOC …

Giant anisotropic nonlinear optical response in transition metal monopnictide Weyl semimetals

L Wu, S Patankar, T Morimoto, NL Nair, E Thewalt… - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
Although Weyl fermions have proven elusive in high-energy physics, their existence as
emergent quasiparticles has been predicted in certain crystalline solids in which either …

Classification of stable three-dimensional Dirac semimetals with nontrivial topology

BJ Yang, N Nagaosa - Nature communications, 2014 - nature.com
Abstract A three-dimensional (3D) Dirac semimetal (SM) is the 3D analogue of graphene
having linear energy dispersion around Fermi points. Owing to the nontrivial topology of …

Chiral anomaly and classical negative magnetoresistance of Weyl metals

DT Son, BZ Spivak - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2013 - APS
We consider the classical magnetoresistance of a Weyl metal in which the electron Fermi
surface possesses nonzero fluxes of the Berry curvature. Such a system may exhibit large …