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 …

Probing topological phase transitions using high-harmonic generation

C Heide, Y Kobayashi, DR Baykusheva, D Jain… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The prediction and realization of topological insulators have sparked great interest in
experimental approaches to the classification of materials,–. The phase transition between …

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 …

Colloquium: Topological band theory

A Bansil, H Lin, T Das - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2016 - APS
The first-principles band theory paradigm has been a key player not only in the process of
discovering new classes of topologically interesting materials, but also for identifying salient …

Discovery of a Weyl fermion state with Fermi arcs in niobium arsenide

SY Xu, N Alidoust, I Belopolski, Z Yuan, G Bian… - Nature Physics, 2015 - nature.com
Three types of fermions play a fundamental role in our understanding of nature: Dirac,
Majorana and Weyl. Whereas Dirac fermions have been known for decades, the latter two …

Observation of Fermi arc surface states in a topological metal

SY Xu, C Liu, SK Kushwaha, R Sankar, JW Krizan… - Science, 2015 - science.org
The topology of the electronic structure of a crystal is manifested in its surface states.
Recently, a distinct topological state has been proposed in metals or semimetals whose spin …

Topological insulator materials

Y Ando - Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 2013 - journals.jps.jp
Topological insulators represent a new quantum state of matter which is characterized by
peculiar edge or surface states that show up due to a topological character of the bulk wave …

Observation of a three-dimensional topological Dirac semimetal phase in high-mobility Cd3As2

M Neupane, SY Xu, R Sankar, N Alidoust… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Abstract Symmetry-broken three-dimensional (3D) topological Dirac semimetal systems with
strong spin-orbit coupling can host many exotic Hall-like phenomena and Weyl fermion …