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 …

2D transition metal dichalcogenides

S Manzeli, D Ovchinnikov, D Pasquier… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Graphene is very popular because of its many fascinating properties, but its lack of an
electronic bandgap has stimulated the search for 2D materials with semiconducting …

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 …

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 …

Higher-Order Topology, Monopole Nodal Lines, and the Origin of Large Fermi Arcs in Transition Metal Dichalcogenides ()

Z Wang, BJ Wieder, J Li, B Yan, BA Bernevig - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
In recent years, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have garnered great interest as
topological materials. In particular, monolayers of centrosymmetric β-phase TMDs have …

Lorentz-violating type-II Dirac fermions in transition metal dichalcogenide PtTe2

M Yan, H Huang, K Zhang, E Wang, W Yao… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Topological semimetals have recently attracted extensive research interests as host
materials to condensed matter physics counterparts of Dirac and Weyl fermions originally …

Topological Weyl semimetals in the chiral antiferromagnetic materials Mn3Ge and Mn3Sn

H Yang, Y Sun, Y Zhang, WJ Shi… - New Journal of …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent experiments revealed that Mn 3 Sn and Mn 3 Ge exhibit a strong anomalous Hall
effect at room temperature, provoking us to explore their electronic structures for topological …

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 …