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 …

Nonlinear anomalous Hall effect in few-layer WTe2

K Kang, T Li, E Sohn, J Shan, KF Mak - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
The Hall effect occurs only in systems with broken time-reversal symmetry, such as materials
under an external magnetic field in the ordinary Hall effect and magnetic materials in the …

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 …

Experimental observation of topological Fermi arcs in type-II Weyl semimetal MoTe2

K Deng, G Wan, P Deng, K Zhang, S Ding, E Wang… - Nature Physics, 2016 - nature.com
Weyl semimetal is a new quantum state of matter,,,,,,,,,,, hosting the condensed matter
physics counterpart of the relativistic Weyl fermions originally introduced in high-energy …

van der Waals metallic transition metal dichalcogenides

GH Han, DL Duong, DH Keum, SJ Yun… - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Transition metal dichalcogenides are layered materials which are composed of transition
metals and chalcogens of the group VIA in a 1: 2 ratio. These layered materials have been …

Light control with Weyl semimetals

C Guo, VS Asadchy, B Zhao, S Fan - Elight, 2023 - Springer
Weyl semimetals are topological materials whose electron quasiparticles obey the Weyl
equation. They possess many unusual properties that may lead to new applications. This is …

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 …

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 …

Lorentz-violating type-II Dirac fermions in transition metal dichalcogenide PtTe2

M Yan, H Huang, K Zhang, E Wang, W Yao… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Topological semimetals have recently attracted extensive research interests as host
materials to condensed matter physics counterparts of Dirac and Weyl fermions originally …