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 …

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 …

Negative magnetoresistance in Dirac semimetal Cd3As2

H Li, H He, HZ Lu, H Zhang, H Liu, R Ma, Z Fan… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
A large negative magnetoresistance (NMR) is anticipated in topological semimetals in
parallel magnetic fields, demonstrating the chiral anomaly, a long-sought high-energy …

Quantum transport in Dirac and Weyl semimetals: a review

S Wang, BC Lin, AQ Wang, DP Yu… - Advances in Physics …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Topological semimetals are well known for the linear energy band dispersion in the bulk
state and topologically protected surface state with arc-like Fermi surface. The angle …

Butterfly magnetoresistance, quasi-2D Dirac Fermi surface and topological phase transition in ZrSiS

MN Ali, LM Schoop, C Garg, JM Lippmann, E Lara… - Science …, 2016 - science.org
Magnetoresistance (MR), the change of a material's electrical resistance in response to an
applied magnetic field, is a technologically important property that has been the topic of …

Transport evidence for the three-dimensional Dirac semimetal phase in

G Zheng, J Lu, X Zhu, W Ning, Y Han, H Zhang… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
Topological Dirac semimetal is a newly discovered class of materials which has attracted
intense attention. This material can be viewed as a three-dimensional (3D) analog of …

A robust and tuneable mid-infrared optical switch enabled by bulk Dirac fermions

C Zhu, F Wang, Y Meng, X Yuan, F **u, H Luo… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Pulsed lasers operating in the mid-infrared (3–20 μm) are important for a wide range of
applications in sensing, spectroscopy, imaging and communications. Despite recent …

Zeeman splitting and dynamical mass generation in Dirac semimetal ZrTe5

Y Liu, X Yuan, C Zhang, Z **, A Narayan, C Luo… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Dirac semimetals have attracted extensive attentions in recent years. It has been
theoretically suggested that many-body interactions may drive exotic phase transitions …

Quantum Hall states observed in thin films of Dirac semimetal Cd3As2

M Uchida, Y Nakazawa, S Nishihaya, K Akiba… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
A well known semiconductor Cd3As2 has reentered the spotlight due to its unique electronic
structure and quantum transport phenomena as a topological Dirac semimetal. For …