Signatures of Fermi Arcs in the Quasiparticle Interferences of the Weyl Semimetals TaAs and NbP

Chang, Guoqing; Xu, Su-Yang; Zheng, Hao; Lee, Chi-Cheng; Huang, Shin-Ming; Belopolski, Ilya; Sanchez, Daniel S.; Bian, Guang; Alidoust, Nasser; Chang, Tay-Rong; Hsu, Chuang-Han; Jeng, Horng-Tay; Bansil, Arun; Lin, Hsin; Hasan, M. Zahid

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.066601

Title: Signatures of Fermi Arcs in the Quasiparticle Interferences of the Weyl Semimetals TaAs and NbP

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Authors:: Chang, Guoqing; Xu, Su-Yang; Zheng, Hao; Lee, Chi-Cheng; Huang, Shin-Ming; Belopolski, Ilya; Sanchez, Daniel S.; Bian, Guang; Alidoust, Nasser; Chang, Tay-Rong; Hsu, Chuang-Han; Jeng, Horng-Tay; Bansil, Arun; Lin, Hsin; Hasan, M. Zahid

Publication Date:: Wed Feb 10 00:00:00 EST 2016

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1237797

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-07ER46352; AC02-05CH11231

Resource Type:: Publisher's Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Physical Review Letters

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 116; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007

Publisher:: American Physical Society

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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                    Chang, Guoqing, Xu, Su-Yang, Zheng, Hao, Lee, Chi-Cheng, Huang, Shin-Ming, Belopolski, Ilya, Sanchez, Daniel S., Bian, Guang, Alidoust, Nasser, Chang, Tay-Rong, Hsu, Chuang-Han, Jeng, Horng-Tay, Bansil, Arun, Lin, Hsin, and Hasan, M. Zahid. Signatures of Fermi Arcs in the Quasiparticle Interferences of the Weyl Semimetals TaAs and NbP.  United States: N. p., 2016. 
Web.  doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.066601.

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                    Chang, Guoqing, Xu, Su-Yang, Zheng, Hao, Lee, Chi-Cheng, Huang, Shin-Ming, Belopolski, Ilya, Sanchez, Daniel S., Bian, Guang, Alidoust, Nasser, Chang, Tay-Rong, Hsu, Chuang-Han, Jeng, Horng-Tay, Bansil, Arun, Lin, Hsin, & Hasan, M. Zahid. Signatures of Fermi Arcs in the Quasiparticle Interferences of the Weyl Semimetals TaAs and NbP.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.066601

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                    Chang, Guoqing, Xu, Su-Yang, Zheng, Hao, Lee, Chi-Cheng, Huang, Shin-Ming, Belopolski, Ilya, Sanchez, Daniel S., Bian, Guang, Alidoust, Nasser, Chang, Tay-Rong, Hsu, Chuang-Han, Jeng, Horng-Tay, Bansil, Arun, Lin, Hsin, and Hasan, M. Zahid. Wed .  
"Signatures of Fermi Arcs in the Quasiparticle Interferences of the Weyl Semimetals TaAs and NbP".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.066601.

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  title        = {Signatures of Fermi Arcs in the Quasiparticle Interferences of the Weyl Semimetals TaAs and NbP},

  author       = {Chang, Guoqing and Xu, Su-Yang and Zheng, Hao and Lee, Chi-Cheng and Huang, Shin-Ming and Belopolski, Ilya and Sanchez, Daniel S. and Bian, Guang and Alidoust, Nasser and Chang, Tay-Rong and Hsu, Chuang-Han and Jeng, Horng-Tay and Bansil, Arun and Lin, Hsin and Hasan, M. Zahid},

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  doi          = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.066601},

  journal      = {Physical Review Letters},

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  year         = {Wed Feb 10 00:00:00 EST 2016},

  month        = {Wed Feb 10 00:00:00 EST 2016}

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