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 …

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 …

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 …

All topological bands of all nonmagnetic stoichiometric materials

MG Vergniory, BJ Wieder, L Elcoro, SSP Parkin… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Topological quantum chemistry and symmetry-based indicators have facilitated large-scale
searches for materials with topological properties at the Fermi energy (EF). We report the …

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 …

Encyclopedia of emergent particles in three-dimensional crystals

ZM Yu, Z Zhang, GB Liu, W Wu, XP Li, RW Zhang… - Science Bulletin, 2022 - Elsevier
The past decade has witnessed a surge of interest in exploring emergent particles in
condensed matter systems. Novel particles, emerged as excitations around exotic band …

Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and its application to topological materials

B Lv, T Qian, H Ding - Nature Reviews Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES)—an experimental technique based
on the photoelectric effect—is arguably the most powerful method for probing the electronic …

Observation of unconventional chiral fermions with long Fermi arcs in CoSi

Z Rao, H Li, T Zhang, S Tian, C Li, B Fu, C Tang… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Chirality—the geometric property of objects that do not coincide with their mirror image—is
found in nature, for example, in molecules, crystals, galaxies and life forms. In quantum field …

Unconventional chiral fermions and large topological Fermi arcs in RhSi

G Chang, SY Xu, BJ Wieder, DS Sanchez, SM Huang… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
The theoretical proposal of chiral fermions in topological semimetals has led to a significant
effort towards their experimental realization. In particular, the Fermi surfaces of chiral …

Spin-neutral currents for spintronics

DF Shao, SH Zhang, M Li, CB Eom… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Electric currents carrying a net spin polarization are widely used in spintronics, whereas
globally spin-neutral currents are expected to play no role in spin-dependent phenomena …