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Prediction of an arc-tunable Weyl Fermion metallic state in MoxW1-xTe2

Journal Article · · Nature Communications
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10639· OSTI ID:1259283
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  1. National Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu (Taiwan)
  2. Princeton Univ., NJ (United States). Dept.of Physics
  3. National Univ. of Singapore (Singapore)
  4. National Univ. of Singapore (Singapore); Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA (United States)
  5. Princeton Univ., NJ (United States). Dept.of Physics; Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  6. Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA (United States)
  7. National Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu (Taiwan); Academia Sinica, Taipei (Taiwan)
  8. Princeton Univ., NJ (United States). Dept.of Physics; Princeton Univ., NJ (United States). Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials
A Weyl semimetal is a new state of matter that hosts Weyl fermions as emergent quasiparticles. The Weyl fermions correspond to isolated points of bulk band degeneracy, Weyl nodes, which are connected only through the crystal’s boundary by exotic Fermi arcs. The length of the Fermi arc gives a measure of the topological strength, because the only way to destroy the Weyl nodes is to annihilate them in pairs in the reciprocal space. To date, Weyl semimetals are only realized in the TaAs class. Here, we propose a tunable Weyl state in MoxW1₋xTe2 where Weyl nodes are formed by touching points between metallic pockets. We show that the Fermi arc length can be changed as a function of Mo concentration, thus tuning the topological strength. Lastly,our results provide an experimentally feasible route to realizing Weyl physics in the layered compound MoxW1₋xTe2, where non-saturating magneto-resistance and pressure-driven superconductivity have been observed.
Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
National Research Foundation (NRF) Singapore; USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231; AC52-06NA25396; FG02-05ER46200; FG02-07ER46352
OSTI ID:
1259283
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1409766
Report Number(s):
LA-UR--17-22173; ncomms10639
Journal Information:
Nature Communications, Journal Name: Nature Communications Vol. 7; ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher:
Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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