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 …

Towards properties on demand in quantum materials

DN Basov, RD Averitt, D Hsieh - Nature materials, 2017 - nature.com
The past decade has witnessed an explosion in the field of quantum materials, headlined by
the predictions and discoveries of novel Landau-symmetry-broken phases in correlated …

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 …

An ultrafast symmetry switch in a Weyl semimetal

EJ Sie, CM Nyby, CD Pemmaraju, SJ Park, X Shen… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Topological quantum materials exhibit fascinating properties,–, with important applications
for dissipationless electronics and fault-tolerant quantum computers,. Manipulating the …

Light–valley interactions in 2D semiconductors

KF Mak, D **ao, J Shan - Nature Photonics, 2018 - nature.com
The emergence of two-dimensional Dirac materials, particularly transition metal
dichalcogenides (TMDs), has reinvigorated interest in valleytronics, which utilizes the …

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 antiferromagnetic spintronics

L Šmejkal, Y Mokrousov, B Yan, AH MacDonald - Nature physics, 2018 - nature.com
The recent demonstrations of electrical manipulation and detection of antiferromagnetic
spins have opened up a new chapter in the story of spintronics. Here, we review the …

Topological chiral crystals with helicoid-arc quantum states

DS Sanchez, I Belopolski, TA Cochran, X Xu, JX Yin… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The quantum behaviour of electrons in materials is the foundation of modern electronics and
information technology,,,,,,,,,–, and quantum materials with topological electronic and optical …

Semimetals for high-performance photodetection

J Liu, F **a, D **ao, FJ Garcia de Abajo, D Sun - Nature materials, 2020 - nature.com
Semimetals are being explored for their unique advantages in low-energy high-speed
photodetection, although they suffer from serious drawbacks such as an intrinsically high …