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 …

Topological materials discovery from crystal symmetry

BJ Wieder, B Bradlyn, J Cano, Z Wang… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Topological materials discovery has evolved at a rapid pace over the past 15 years following
the identification of the first nonmagnetic topological insulators (TIs), topological crystalline …

Observation and control of maximal Chern numbers in a chiral topological semimetal

NBM Schröter, S Stolz, K Manna, F De Juan… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Topological semimetals feature protected nodal band degeneracies characterized by a
topological invariant known as the Chern number (C). Nodal band crossings with linear …

Twofold quadruple Weyl nodes in chiral cubic crystals

T Zhang, R Takahashi, C Fang, S Murakami - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
Unlike conventional Weyl nodes, unconventional ones carry a quantized monopole charge
C> 1, and their existence needs the protection of crystalline symmetries in addition to …

Weyl phonons in chiral crystals

T Zhang, Z Huang, Z Pan, L Du, G Zhang… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Chirality is an indispensable concept that pervades fundamental science and nature,
manifesting itself in diverse forms, eg, quasiparticles, and crystal structures. Of particular …

Linear response in planar Hall and thermal Hall setups for Rarita-Schwinger-Weyl semimetals

R Ghosh, F Haidar, I Mandal - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We investigate the nature of the linear-response tensors in planar Hall and planar thermal
Hall setups, where we subject a Rarita-Schwinger-Weyl (RSW) semimetal to the combined …

Multifold topological semimetals

I Robredo, NBM Schröter, C Felser, J Cano… - Europhysics …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The discovery of topological semimetals with multifold band crossings has opened up a new
and exciting frontier in the field of topological physics. These materials exhibit large Chern …

Direct observation of sixfold exotic fermions in the pyrite-structured topological semimetal

ZP Sun, CQ Hua, XL Liu, ZT Liu, M Ye, S Qiao, ZH Liu… - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
Pyrite-structured PdSb 2 with the nonsymmorphic crystalline symmetry, has long been
predicted to host sixfold-degenerate exotic fermions beyond Dirac and Weyl. Although …

Protection of all nondefective twofold degeneracies by antiunitary symmetries in non-Hermitian systems

S Sayyad - Physical Review Research, 2022 - APS
Non-Hermitian degeneracies are classified as defective exceptional points (EPs) and
nondefective degeneracies. While in defective EPs, both eigenvalues and eigenvectors …

Interplay of topology and electron-electron interactions in Rarita-Schwinger-Weyl semimetals

I Boettcher - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We study, for the first time, the effects of strong short-range electron-electron interactions in
generic Rarita-Schwinger-Weyl semimetals hosting spin-3/2 electrons with linear dispersion …