A Weyl Fermion semimetal with surface Fermi arcs in the transition metal monopnictide TaAs class
學年 103
學期 2
出版(發表)日期 2015-06-12
作品名稱 A Weyl Fermion semimetal with surface Fermi arcs in the transition metal monopnictide TaAs class
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著者 Shin-Ming Huang; Su-Yang Xu; Ilya Belopolski; Chi-Cheng Lee; Guoqing Chang; BaoKai Wang; Nasser Alidoust; Guang Bian; Madhab Neupane; Chenglong Zhang; Shuang Jia; Arun Bansil; Hsin Lin; M. Zahid Hasan
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著錄名稱、卷期、頁數 Nature Communications 6, 7373
摘要 Weyl fermions are massless chiral fermions that play an important role in quantum field theory but have never been observed as fundamental particles. A Weyl semimetal is an unusual crystal that hosts Weyl fermions as quasiparticle excitations and features Fermi arcs on its surface. Such a semimetal not only provides a condensed matter realization of the anomalies in quantum field theories but also demonstrates the topological classification beyond the gapped topological insulators. Here, we identify a topological Weyl semimetal state in the transition metal monopnictide materials class. Our first-principles calculations on TaAs reveal its bulk Weyl fermion cones and surface Fermi arcs. Our results show that in the TaAs-type materials the Weyl semimetal state does not depend on fine-tuning of chemical composition or magnetic order, which opens the door for the experimental realization of Weyl semimetals and Fermi arc surface states in real materials.
關鍵字 Quantum Hall;Theoretical physics
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