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, 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 …

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 …

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 …

Topological materials: Weyl semimetals

B Yan, C Felser - Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Topological insulators and topological semimetals are both new classes of quantum
materials, which are characterized by surface states induced by the topology of the bulk …

Topological semimetals predicted from first-principles calculations

H Weng, X Dai, Z Fang - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We have given a summary on our theoretical predictions of three kinds of topological
semimetals (TSMs), namely, Dirac semimetal (DSM), Weyl semimetal (WSM) and node-line …

Discovery of Weyl fermion semimetals and topological Fermi arc states

MZ Hasan, SY Xu, I Belopolski… - Annual Review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Weyl semimetals are conductors whose low-energy bulk excitations are Weyl fermions,
whereas their surfaces possess metallic Fermi arc surface states. These Fermi arc surface …

Topological quantum materials from the viewpoint of chemistry

N Kumar, SN Guin, K Manna, C Shekhar… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Topology, a mathematical concept, has recently become a popular and truly
transdisciplinary topic encompassing condensed matter physics, solid state chemistry, and …

Topological nodal line semimetals in the family of materials

Q Xu, R Yu, Z Fang, X Dai, H Weng - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
By using first-principles calculations and ak· p model analysis, we propose that the three-
dimensional topological nodal line semimetal state can be realized in the CaP 3 family of …

Topological semimetals with a double-helix nodal link

W Chen, HZ Lu, JM Hou - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
Topological nodal line semimetals are characterized by the crossing of the conduction and
valence bands along one or more closed loops in the Brillouin zone. Usually, these loops …