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 …

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 …

Dirac cone protected by non-symmorphic symmetry and three-dimensional Dirac line node in ZrSiS

LM Schoop, MN Ali, C Straßer, A Topp… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Materials harbouring exotic quasiparticles, such as massless Dirac and Weyl fermions, have
garnered much attention from physics and material science communities due to their …

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 …

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 …

Band Topology and Linking Structure of Nodal Line Semimetals with Monopole Charges

J Ahn, D Kim, Y Kim, BJ Yang - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
We study the band topology and the associated linking structure of topological semimetals
with nodal lines carrying Z 2 monopole charges, which can be realized in three-dimensional …

Topological semimetals from first principles

H Gao, JWF Venderbos, Y Kim… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
We review recent theoretical progress in the understanding and prediction of novel
topological semimetals. Topological semimetals define a class of gapless electronic phases …

Nodal-link semimetals

Z Yan, R Bi, H Shen, L Lu, SC Zhang, Z Wang - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
In topological semimetals, the valance band and conduction band meet at zero-dimensional
nodal points or one-dimensional nodal rings, which are protected by band topology and …

Experimental realization of two-dimensional Dirac nodal line fermions in monolayer Cu2Si

B Feng, B Fu, S Kasamatsu, S Ito, P Cheng… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Topological nodal line semimetals, a novel quantum state of materials, possess
topologically nontrivial valence and conduction bands that touch at a line near the Fermi …