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 …

Nanostructured metal phosphides: from controllable synthesis to sustainable catalysis

SH Li, MY Qi, ZR Tang, YJ Xu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal phosphides (MPs) with unique and desirable physicochemical properties provide
promising potential in practical applications, such as the catalysis, gas/humidity sensor …

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 …

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 …

Topological materials: Weyl semimetals

B Yan, C Felser - Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Topological insulators and topological semimetals are both new classes of quantum
materials, which are characterized by surface states induced by the topology of the bulk …

Prediction of Weyl semimetal in orthorhombic

Y Sun, SC Wu, MN Ali, C Felser, B Yan - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
We investigate the orthorhombic phase (T d) of the layered transition-metal dichalcogenide
MoTe 2 as a Weyl semimetal candidate. MoTe 2 exhibits four pairs of Weyl points lying …

An ab-initio study on structural, elastic, electronic, bonding, thermal, and optical properties of topological Weyl semimetal TaX (X = P, As)

MI Naher, SH Naqib - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
In recent days, study of topological Weyl semimetals have become an active branch of
physics and materials science because they led to realization of the Weyl fermions and …

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 …

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 …

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 …