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 …

Light-induced emergent phenomena in 2D materials and topological materials

C Bao, P Tang, D Sun, S Zhou - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Light–matter interaction in 2D and topological materials provides a fascinating control knob
for inducing emergent, non-equilibrium properties and achieving new functionalities in the …

All topological bands of all nonmagnetic stoichiometric materials

MG Vergniory, BJ Wieder, L Elcoro, SSP Parkin… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Topological quantum chemistry and symmetry-based indicators have facilitated large-scale
searches for materials with topological properties at the Fermi energy (EF). We report 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 …

Catalogue of topological electronic materials

T Zhang, Y Jiang, Z Song, H Huang, Y He, Z Fang… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Topological electronic materials such as bismuth selenide, tantalum arsenide and sodium
bismuthide show unconventional linear response in the bulk, as well as anomalous gapless …

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 …

Semimetals for high-performance photodetection

J Liu, F **a, D **ao, FJ Garcia de Abajo, D Sun - Nature materials, 2020 - nature.com
Semimetals are being explored for their unique advantages in low-energy high-speed
photodetection, although they suffer from serious drawbacks such as an intrinsically high …

Topology and geometry under the nonlinear electromagnetic spotlight

Q Ma, AG Grushin, KS Burch - Nature materials, 2021 - nature.com
For many materials, a precise knowledge of their dispersion spectra is insufficient to predict
their ordered phases and physical responses. Instead, these materials are classified by the …

Observation of unconventional chiral fermions with long Fermi arcs in CoSi

Z Rao, H Li, T Zhang, S Tian, C Li, B Fu, C Tang… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Chirality—the geometric property of objects that do not coincide with their mirror image—is
found in nature, for example, in molecules, crystals, galaxies and life forms. In quantum field …

Topological materials discovery from crystal symmetry

BJ Wieder, B Bradlyn, J Cano, Z Wang… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Topological materials discovery has evolved at a rapid pace over the past 15 years following
the identification of the first nonmagnetic topological insulators (TIs), topological crystalline …