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 …

Angle-resolved photoemission studies of quantum materials

JA Sobota, Y He, ZX Shen - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2021 - APS
The physics of quantum materials is dictated by many-body interactions and mathematical
concepts such as symmetry and topology that have transformed our understanding of matter …

Magnetic Weyl semimetal phase in a Kagomé crystal

DF Liu, AJ Liang, EK Liu, QN Xu, YW Li, C Chen, D Pei… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Weyl semimetals are crystalline solids that host emergent relativistic Weyl fermions and
have characteristic surface Fermi-arcs in their electronic structure. Weyl semimetals with …

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 …

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 …

Spectroscopic evidence for a type II Weyl semimetallic state in MoTe2

L Huang, TM McCormick, M Ochi, Z Zhao, MT Suzuki… - Nature materials, 2016 - nature.com
In a type I Dirac or Weyl semimetal, the low-energy states are squeezed to a single point in
momentum space when the chemical potential μ is tuned precisely to the Dirac/Weyl …

Signature of type-II Weyl semimetal phase in MoTe2

J Jiang, ZK Liu, Y Sun, HF Yang, CR Rajamathi… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Topological Weyl semimetal (TWS), a new state of quantum matter, has sparked enormous
research interest recently. Possessing unique Weyl fermions in the bulk and Fermi arcs on …

Multiple types of topological fermions in transition metal silicides

P Tang, Q Zhou, SC Zhang - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
Exotic massless fermionic excitations with nonzero Berry flux, other than the Dirac and Weyl
fermions, could exist in condensed matter systems under the protection of crystalline …

Colossal mid-infrared bulk photovoltaic effect in a type-I Weyl semimetal

GB Osterhoudt, LK Diebel, MJ Gray, X Yang, J Stanco… - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
Broadband, efficient and fast conversion of light to electricity is crucial for sensing and clean
energy. The bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) is a second-order nonlinear optical effect that …