2D transition metal dichalcogenides

S Manzeli, D Ovchinnikov, D Pasquier… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Graphene is very popular because of its many fascinating properties, but its lack of an
electronic bandgap has stimulated the search for 2D materials with semiconducting …

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 …

Recent development of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides and their applications

W Choi, N Choudhary, GH Han, J Park, D Akinwande… - Materials Today, 2017 - Elsevier
Recent advances in atomically thin two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (2D
TMDs) have led to a variety of promising technologies for nanoelectronics, photonics …

WannierTools: An open-source software package for novel topological materials

QS Wu, SN Zhang, HF Song, M Troyer… - Computer Physics …, 2018 - Elsevier
We present an open-source software package WannierTools, a tool for investigation of novel
topological materials. This code works in the tight-binding framework, which can be …

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 …

Type-ii weyl semimetals

AA Soluyanov, D Gresch, Z Wang, QS Wu, M Troyer… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Fermions—elementary particles such as electrons—are classified as Dirac, Majorana or
Weyl. Majorana and Weyl fermions had not been observed experimentally until the recent …

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 …

Giant anomalous Hall effect in a ferromagnetic kagome-lattice semimetal

E Liu, Y Sun, N Kumar, L Muechler, A Sun, L Jiao… - Nature physics, 2018 - nature.com
Magnetic Weyl semimetals with broken time-reversal symmetry are expected to generate
strong intrinsic anomalous Hall effects, due to their large Berry curvature. Here, we report a …

Observation of the chiral-anomaly-induced negative magnetoresistance in 3D Weyl semimetal TaAs

X Huang, L Zhao, Y Long, P Wang, D Chen, Z Yang… - Physical Review X, 2015 - APS
Weyl semimetal is the three-dimensional analog of graphene. According to quantum field
theory, the appearance of Weyl points near the Fermi level will cause novel transport …

Ferroelectric switching of a two-dimensional metal

Z Fei, W Zhao, TA Palomaki, B Sun, MK Miller, Z Zhao… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
A ferroelectric is a material with a polar structure whose polarity can be reversed (switched)
by applying an electric field,. In metals, itinerant electrons screen electrostatic forces …