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 …

Transport of topological semimetals

J Hu, SY Xu, N Ni, Z Mao - Annual Review of Materials Research, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Three-dimensional (3D) topological semimetals represent a new class of topological
matters. The study of this family of materials has been at the frontiers of condensed matter …

The 2021 quantum materials roadmap

F Giustino, JH Lee, F Trier, M Bibes… - Journal of Physics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
In recent years, the notion of'Quantum Materials' has emerged as a powerful unifying
concept across diverse fields of science and engineering, from condensed-matter and …

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 …

Z2Pack: Numerical implementation of hybrid Wannier centers for identifying topological materials

D Gresch, G Autes, OV Yazyev, M Troyer, D Vanderbilt… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
The intense theoretical and experimental interest in topological insulators and semimetals
has established band structure topology as a fundamental material property. Consequently …

Discovery of Weyl fermion semimetals and topological Fermi arc states

MZ Hasan, SY Xu, I Belopolski… - Annual Review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Weyl semimetals are conductors whose low-energy bulk excitations are Weyl fermions,
whereas their surfaces possess metallic Fermi arc surface states. These Fermi arc surface …

Topological semimetals predicted from first-principles calculations

H Weng, X Dai, Z Fang - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We have given a summary on our theoretical predictions of three kinds of topological
semimetals (TSMs), namely, Dirac semimetal (DSM), Weyl semimetal (WSM) and node-line …

Topological semimetals from first principles

H Gao, JWF Venderbos, Y Kim… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
We review recent theoretical progress in the understanding and prediction of novel
topological semimetals. Topological semimetals define a class of gapless electronic phases …

Extremely high magnetoresistance and conductivity in the type-II Weyl semimetals WP2 and MoP2

N Kumar, Y Sun, N Xu, K Manna, M Yao, V Süss… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The peculiar band structure of semimetals exhibiting Dirac and Weyl crossings can lead to
spectacular electronic properties such as large mobilities accompanied by extremely high …

Discovery of Lorentz-violating type II Weyl fermions in LaAlGe

SY Xu, N Alidoust, G Chang, H Lu, B Singh… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
In quantum field theory, Weyl fermions are relativistic particles that travel at the speed of light
and strictly obey the celebrated Lorentz symmetry. Their low-energy condensed matter …