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 …

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 …

Topological quantum properties of chiral crystals

G Chang, BJ Wieder, F Schindler, DS Sanchez… - Nature materials, 2018 - nature.com
Chiral crystals are materials with a lattice structure that has a well-defined handedness due
to the lack of inversion, mirror or other roto-inversion symmetries. Although it has been …

Evidence of topological nodal-line fermions in ZrSiSe and ZrSiTe

J Hu, Z Tang, J Liu, X Liu, Y Zhu, D Graf, K Myhro… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
A Dirac nodal-line semimetal phase, which represents a new quantum state of topological
materials, has been experimentally realized only in a few systems, including PbTaSe 2, PtSn …

Photocurrents in Weyl semimetals

CK Chan, NH Lindner, G Refael, PA Lee - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
The generation of photocurrent in an ideal two-dimensional Dirac spectrum is symmetry
forbidden. In sharp contrast, we show that three-dimensional Weyl semimetals can …

Quantum transport in Dirac and Weyl semimetals: a review

S Wang, BC Lin, AQ Wang, DP Yu… - Advances in Physics …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Topological semimetals are well known for the linear energy band dispersion in the bulk
state and topologically protected surface state with arc-like Fermi surface. The angle …

Butterfly magnetoresistance, quasi-2D Dirac Fermi surface and topological phase transition in ZrSiS

MN Ali, LM Schoop, C Garg, JM Lippmann, E Lara… - Science …, 2016 - science.org
Magnetoresistance (MR), the change of a material's electrical resistance in response to an
applied magnetic field, is a technologically important property that has been the topic of …

Quantum transport evidence of Weyl fermions in an epitaxial ferromagnetic oxide

K Takiguchi, YK Wakabayashi, H Irie… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Magnetic Weyl semimetals have novel transport phenomena related to pairs of Weyl nodes
in the band structure. Although the existence of Weyl fermions is expected in various oxides …

Nearly massless Dirac fermions and strong Zeeman splitting in the nodal-line semimetal ZrSiS probed by de Haas–van Alphen quantum oscillations

J Hu, Z Tang, J Liu, Y Zhu, J Wei, Z Mao - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
Topological semimetals represent a new class of quantum materials hosting Dirac/Weyl
fermions. The essential properties of topological fermions can be revealed by quantum …