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 …

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 …

Extremely large magnetoresistance and ultrahigh mobility in the topological Weyl semimetal candidate NbP

C Shekhar, AK Nayak, Y Sun, M Schmidt, M Nicklas… - Nature Physics, 2015 - nature.com
Recent experiments have revealed spectacular transport properties in semimetals, such as
the large, non-saturating magnetoresistance exhibited by WTe2 (ref.). 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 …

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 …

Negative magnetoresistance in Dirac semimetal Cd3As2

H Li, H He, HZ Lu, H Zhang, H Liu, R Ma, Z Fan… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
A large negative magnetoresistance (NMR) is anticipated in topological semimetals in
parallel magnetic fields, demonstrating the chiral anomaly, a long-sought high-energy …

Observation of Fermi arcs in the type-II Weyl semimetal candidate

Y Wu, D Mou, NH Jo, K Sun, L Huang, SL Bud'ko… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
We use ultrahigh resolution, tunable, vacuum ultraviolet laser angle-resolved photoemission
spectroscopy (ARPES) to study the electronic properties of WTe 2, a material that was …

Giant negative magnetoresistance induced by the chiral anomaly in individual Cd3As2 nanowires

CZ Li, LX Wang, H Liu, J Wang, ZM Liao… - Nature communications, 2015 - nature.com
Dirac electronic materials beyond graphene and topological insulators have recently
attracted considerable attention. Cd3As2 is a Dirac semimetal with linear dispersion along …

Dirac node arcs in PtSn4

Y Wu, LL Wang, E Mun, DD Johnson, D Mou, L Huang… - Nature Physics, 2016 - nature.com
In topological quantum materials,, the conduction and valence bands are connected at
points or along lines in the momentum space. A number of studies have demonstrated that …