Criteria for Directly Detecting Topological Fermi Arcs in Weyl Semimetals

doi:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.066802

Title: Criteria for Directly Detecting Topological Fermi Arcs in Weyl Semimetals

Abstract

The recent discovery of the first Weyl semimetal in TaAs provides the first observation of a Weyl fermion in nature and demonstrates a novel type of anomalous surface state, the Fermi arc. Like topological insulators, the bulk topological invariants of a Weyl semimetal are uniquely fixed by the surface states of a bulk sample. We present a set of distinct conditions, accessible by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), each of which demonstrates topological Fermi arcs in a surface state band structure, with minimal reliance on calculation. We also apply these results to TaAs and NbP. For the first time, we rigorously demonstrate a nonzero Chern number in TaAs by counting chiral edge modes on a closed loop. Furthermore, we show that it is unreasonable to directly observe Fermi arcs in NbP by ARPES within available experimental resolution and spectral linewidth. Our results are general and apply to any new material to demonstrate a Weyl semimetal.

Authors:

Belopolski, Ilya ^[1]; Xu, Su-Yang ^[1]; Sanchez, Daniel S. ^[1]; Chang, Guoqing ^[2]; Guo, Cheng ^[3]; Neupane, Madhab ^[4]; Zheng, Hao ^[1]; Lee, Chi-Cheng ^[2]; Huang, Shin-Ming ^[2]; Bian, Guang ^[1]; Alidoust, Nasser ^[1]; Chang, Tay-Rong ^[5]; Wang, BaoKai ^[6]; Zhang, Xiao ^[3]; Bansil, Arun ^[7]; Jeng, Horng-Tay ^[8]; Lin, Hsin ^[2]; Jia, Shuang ^[3]; Hasan, M. Zahid ^[1]

Princeton Univ., NJ (United States). Lab. for Topological Quantum Matter and Spectroscopy
National Univ. of Singapore (Singapore). Centre for Advanced 2D Materials and Graphene Research Centre and Dept. of PHysics
Peking Univ., Beijing (China). International Center for Quantum Materials
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States). Condensed Matter and Magnet Science Group; Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL (United States). Dept. of Physics
Princeton Univ., NJ (United States). Lab. for Topological Quantum Matter and Spectroscopy; National Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu (Taiwan). Dept. of Physics
National Univ. of Singapore (Singapore). Centre for Advanced 2D Materials and Graphene Research Centre and Dept. of PHysics; Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA (United States). Dept. of Physics
Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA (United States). Dept. of Physics
National Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu (Taiwan). Dept. of Physics; Academia Sinica, Taipei (Taiwan). Inst. of Physics

Publication Date:: 2016-02-10

Research Org.:: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

OSTI Identifier:: 1352386

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1237788

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-17-22127
Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007; PRLTAO

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396; FG02-07ER46352; AC02-05CH11231

Resource Type:: Journal Article: 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 (APS)

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; Material Science

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                    Belopolski, Ilya, Xu, Su-Yang, Sanchez, Daniel S., Chang, Guoqing, Guo, Cheng, Neupane, Madhab, Zheng, Hao, Lee, Chi-Cheng, Huang, Shin-Ming, Bian, Guang, Alidoust, Nasser, Chang, Tay-Rong, Wang, BaoKai, Zhang, Xiao, Bansil, Arun, Jeng, Horng-Tay, Lin, Hsin, Jia, Shuang, and Hasan, M. Zahid. Criteria for Directly Detecting Topological Fermi Arcs in Weyl Semimetals.  United States: N. p., 2016. 
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                    Belopolski, Ilya, Xu, Su-Yang, Sanchez, Daniel S., Chang, Guoqing, Guo, Cheng, Neupane, Madhab, Zheng, Hao, Lee, Chi-Cheng, Huang, Shin-Ming, Bian, Guang, Alidoust, Nasser, Chang, Tay-Rong, Wang, BaoKai, Zhang, Xiao, Bansil, Arun, Jeng, Horng-Tay, Lin, Hsin, Jia, Shuang, & Hasan, M. Zahid. Criteria for Directly Detecting Topological Fermi Arcs in Weyl Semimetals.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.066802

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                    Belopolski, Ilya, Xu, Su-Yang, Sanchez, Daniel S., Chang, Guoqing, Guo, Cheng, Neupane, Madhab, Zheng, Hao, Lee, Chi-Cheng, Huang, Shin-Ming, Bian, Guang, Alidoust, Nasser, Chang, Tay-Rong, Wang, BaoKai, Zhang, Xiao, Bansil, Arun, Jeng, Horng-Tay, Lin, Hsin, Jia, Shuang, and Hasan, M. Zahid. Wed .  
        "Criteria for Directly Detecting Topological Fermi Arcs in Weyl Semimetals".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.066802.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1352386.

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@article{osti_1352386,

  title        = {Criteria for Directly Detecting Topological Fermi Arcs in Weyl Semimetals},

  author       = {Belopolski, Ilya and Xu, Su-Yang and Sanchez, Daniel S. and Chang, Guoqing and Guo, Cheng and Neupane, Madhab and Zheng, Hao and Lee, Chi-Cheng and Huang, Shin-Ming and Bian, Guang and Alidoust, Nasser and Chang, Tay-Rong and Wang, BaoKai and Zhang, Xiao and Bansil, Arun and Jeng, Horng-Tay and Lin, Hsin and Jia, Shuang and Hasan, M. Zahid},

  abstractNote = {The recent discovery of the first Weyl semimetal in TaAs provides the first observation of a Weyl fermion in nature and demonstrates a novel type of anomalous surface state, the Fermi arc. Like topological insulators, the bulk topological invariants of a Weyl semimetal are uniquely fixed by the surface states of a bulk sample. We present a set of distinct conditions, accessible by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), each of which demonstrates topological Fermi arcs in a surface state band structure, with minimal reliance on calculation. We also apply these results to TaAs and NbP. For the first time, we rigorously demonstrate a nonzero Chern number in TaAs by counting chiral edge modes on a closed loop. Furthermore, we show that it is unreasonable to directly observe Fermi arcs in NbP by ARPES within available experimental resolution and spectral linewidth. Our results are general and apply to any new material to demonstrate a Weyl semimetal.},

  doi          = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.066802},

  url          = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1352386},
  journal      = {Physical Review Letters},

  issn         = {0031-9007},

  number       = 6,

  volume       = 116,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2016},

  month        = {2}

}

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Topological Weyl semimetals (TWSs) represent a novel state of topological quantum matter which not only possesses Weyl fermions (massless chiral particles that can be viewed as magnetic monopoles in momentum space) in the bulk and unique Fermi arcs generated by topological surface states, but also exhibits appealing physical properties such as extremely large magnetoresistance and ultra-high carrier mobility. Here, by performing angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) on NbP and TaP, we directly observed their band structures with characteristic Fermi arcs of TWSs. Furthermore, by systematically investigating NbP, TaP and TaAs from the same transition metal monopnictide family, we discovered their Fermiologymore »« less
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A Weyl Fermion semimetal with surface Fermi arcs in the transition metal monopnictide TaAs class

Journal Article Huang, Shin-Ming ; Xu, Su-Yang ; Belopolski, Ilya ; ... - Nature Communications

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 surfacemore »« less
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Spin Polarization and Texture of the Fermi Arcs in the Weyl Fermion Semimetal TaAs

Journal Article Xu, Su-Yang ; Belopolski, Ilya ; Sanchez, Daniel S. ; ... - Physical Review Letters

A Weyl semimetal is a new state of matter that hosts Weyl fermions as quasiparticle excitations. The Weyl fermions at zero energy correspond to points of bulk-band degeneracy, called Weyl nodes, which are separated in momentum space and are connected only through the crystal’s boundary by an exotic Fermi arc surface state. Here, we experimentally measure the spin polarization of the Fermi arcs in the first experimentally discovered Weyl semimetal TaAs. Our spin data, for the first time, reveal that the Fermi arcs’ spin-polarization magnitude is as large as 80% and lies completely in the plane of the surface. Moreover,more »« less
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Fermi surface interconnectivity and topology in Weyl fermion semimetals TaAs, TaP, NbAs, and NbP

Journal Article Lee, Chi-Cheng ; Xu, Su-Yang ; Huang, Shin-Ming ; ... - Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

The family of binary compounds including TaAs, TaP, NbAs, and NbP was recently discovered as the first realization of Weyl semimetals. In order to develop a comprehensive description of the charge carriers in these Weyl semimetals, we performed detailed and systematic electronic band structure calculations which reveal the nature of Fermi surfaces and their complex interconnectivity in TaAs, TaP, NbAs, and NbP. In conclusion, our work reports a comparative and comprehensive study of Fermi surface topology and band structure details of all known members of the Weyl semimetal family and hence provides the fundamental knowledge for realizing the many predictedmore »« less
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A strongly robust type II Weyl fermion semimetal state in Ta ₃S ₂

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Weyl semimetals are of great interest because they provide the first realization of the Weyl fermion, exhibit exotic quantum anomalies, and host Fermi arc surface states. The separation between Weyl nodes of opposite chirality gives a measure of the robustness of the Weyl semimetal state. To exploit the novel phenomena that arise from Weyl fermions in applications, it is crucially important to find robust separated Weyl nodes. Here, we propose a methodology to design robust Weyl semimetals with well-separated Weyl nodes. Using this methodology as a guideline, we search among the material parameter space and identify by far the mostmore »« less
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Elektron und Gravitation. I journal, May 1929

Accidental Degeneracy in the Energy Bands of Crystals journal, August 1937

Some properties of gapless semiconductors of the second kind journal, August 1971

The Adler-Bell-Jackiw anomaly and Weyl fermions in a crystal journal, November 1983

Phase transition between the quantum spin Hall and insulator phases in 3D: emergence of a topological gapless phase journal, September 2007

Weyl Semimetal in a Topological Insulator Multilayer journal, September 2011

Topological semimetal and Fermi-arc surface states in the electronic structure of pyrochlore iridates journal, May 2011

Recent developments in transport phenomena in Weyl semimetals journal, November 2013

A Weyl Fermion semimetal with surface Fermi arcs in the transition metal monopnictide TaAs class journal, June 2015

Weyl Semimetal Phase in Noncentrosymmetric Transition-Metal Monophosphides journal, March 2015

Discovery of a Weyl fermion semimetal and topological Fermi arcs journal, July 2015

Experimental observation of Weyl points journal, July 2015

Experimental Discovery of Weyl Semimetal TaAs journal, July 2015

Observation of Weyl nodes in TaAs journal, August 2015

Discovery of a Weyl fermion state with Fermi arcs in niobium arsenide journal, August 2015

Experimental discovery of a topological Weyl semimetal state in TaP journal, November 2015

Weyl semimetal phase in the non-centrosymmetric compound TaAs journal, August 2015

Atomic-Scale Visualization of Quantum Interference on a Weyl Semimetal Surface by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy journal, December 2015

Observation of Fermi arc surface states in a topological metal journal, December 2014

Observation of Fermi Arcs in Non-Centrosymmetric Weyl Semi-Metal Candidate NbP journal, September 2015

Variationally optimized atomic orbitals for large-scale electronic structures journal, April 2003

Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple journal, October 1996

New Metal-rich Phosphides of Niobium, Tantalum and Tungsten journal, August 1966

Stacking disorder in NbP, TaP, NbAs and TaAs journal, June 1984

Crystal Structure, Electrical Transport, and Magnetic Properties of Niobium Monophosphide journal, January 1996

Maximally localized generalized Wannier functions for composite energy bands journal, November 1997

wannier90: A tool for obtaining maximally-localised Wannier functions journal, May 2008

Fermi surface interconnectivity and topology in Weyl fermion semimetals TaAs, TaP, NbAs, and NbP journal, December 2015

Evolution of the Fermi surface of Weyl semimetals in the transition metal pnictide family journal, November 2015

Anisotropic thermoelectric properties of Weyl semimetal NbX (X = P and As): a potential thermoelectric material journal, January 2019

Anisotropic thermoelectric properties of Weyl semimetal NbX (X = P and As): a potential thermoelectric material journal, January 2019

Direct observation of nonequivalent Fermi-arc states of opposite surfaces in the noncentrosymmetric Weyl semimetal NbP journal, April 2016

Orbital Fingerprint of Topological Fermi Arcs in the Weyl Semimetal TaP journal, March 2019

Epsilon-near-zero response and tunable perfect absorption in Weyl semimetals journal, August 2018

Fermi Arcs and DC Transport in Nanowires of Dirac and Weyl Semimetals journal, December 2019

Layered Topological Insulators and Semimetals for Magnetoresistance Type Sensors journal, December 2018

Quantum transport in topological semimetals under magnetic fields (II) journal, April 2019

Photonic crystals possessing multiple Weyl points and the experimental observation of robust surface states journal, October 2016

Discovery of a new type of topological Weyl fermion semimetal state in MoxW1−xTe2 journal, December 2016

Weyl semimetals, Fermi arcs and chiral anomalies journal, October 2016

Direct optical detection of Weyl fermion chirality in a topological semimetal journal, May 2017

Tunable anomalous Hall conductivity through volume-wise magnetic competition in a topological kagome magnet journal, January 2020

Topological chiral crystals with helicoid-arc quantum states journal, March 2019

Validity of Weyl fermion picture for transition metals monopnictides TaAs, TaP, NbAs, and NbP from ab initio studies journal, February 2018

Discovery of topological nodal-line fermionic phase in a magnetic material GdSbTe journal, September 2018

Room-temperature magnetic topological Weyl fermion and nodal line semimetal states in half-metallic Heusler Co2TiX (X=Si, Ge, or Sn) journal, December 2016

Dowsing for nodal lines in a topological semimetal journal, December 2018

Quantum transport in Dirac and Weyl semimetals: a review journal, May 2017

Symmetry demanded topological nodal-line materials journal, January 2018

Quasiparticle interference on type-I and type-II Weyl semimetal surfaces: a review journal, January 2018

Elastic phononic plates with first-order and second-order topological phases journal, January 2020

Electronic transport property in Weyl semimetal with local Weyl cone tilt journal, February 2018

Zitterbewegung in time-reversal Weyl semimetals journal, May 2018

Andreev reflection in nodal-line Weyl semimetal journal, February 2020

Imaging electronic states on topological semimetals using scanning tunneling microscopy journal, October 2016

Weak-value amplification for Weyl-point separation in momentum space journal, October 2018

Electronic non-coplanar refraction and deflected diffraction of Weyl-node-mismatch junctions journal, November 2019

Nonlocal transport in superconducting heterostructures based on Weyl semimetals journal, August 2019

Evolution of pair correlation symmetries and supercurrent reversal in tilted Weyl semimetals journal, January 2020

Observation of topological nodal fermion semimetal phase in ZrSiS journal, May 2016

Topological density-wave states in a particle-hole symmetric Weyl metal journal, August 2016

Bulk spectroscopic measurement of the topological charge of Weyl nodes with resonant x rays journal, September 2016

Prediction and control of spin polarization in a Weyl semimetallic phase of BiSb journal, October 2016

Magnetotransport and de Haas–van Alphen measurements in the type-II Weyl semimetal TaIrTe 4 journal, October 2016

Minimal models for topological Weyl semimetals journal, February 2017

Prediction of a magnetic Weyl semimetal without spin-orbit coupling and strong anomalous Hall effect in the Heusler compensated ferrimagnet Ti 2 MnAl journal, February 2018

Topological surface Fermi arcs in the magnetic Weyl semimetal Co 3 Sn 2 S 2 journal, June 2018

Chiral optical response of multifold fermions journal, October 2018

Green's function of semi-infinite Weyl semimetals journal, November 2018

Fermi arc engineering at the interface between two Weyl semimetals journal, November 2018

Transport across junctions of a Weyl and a multi-Weyl semimetal journal, February 2019

Tunable surface plasmons in Weyl semimetals TaAs and NbAs journal, March 2019

Phononic Weyl points and one-way topologically protected nontrivial phononic surface arc states in noncentrosymmetric WC-type materials journal, May 2019

Signatures of Fermi Arcs in the Quasiparticle Interferences of the Weyl Semimetals TaAs and NbP journal, February 2016

Spin Polarization and Texture of the Fermi Arcs in the Weyl Fermion Semimetal TaAs journal, March 2016

From Dirac Semimetals to Topological Phases in Three Dimensions: A Coupled-Wire Construction journal, February 2019

Weyl and Dirac semimetals in three-dimensional solids journal, January 2018

Elektron und Gravitation. I
journal, May 1929

Accidental Degeneracy in the Energy Bands of Crystals
journal, August 1937

Some properties of gapless semiconductors of the second kind
journal, August 1971

The Adler-Bell-Jackiw anomaly and Weyl fermions in a crystal
journal, November 1983

Phase transition between the quantum spin Hall and insulator phases in 3D: emergence of a topological gapless phase
journal, September 2007

Weyl Semimetal in a Topological Insulator Multilayer
journal, September 2011

Topological semimetal and Fermi-arc surface states in the electronic structure of pyrochlore iridates
journal, May 2011

Recent developments in transport phenomena in Weyl semimetals
journal, November 2013

A Weyl Fermion semimetal with surface Fermi arcs in the transition metal monopnictide TaAs class
journal, June 2015

Weyl Semimetal Phase in Noncentrosymmetric Transition-Metal Monophosphides
journal, March 2015

Discovery of a Weyl fermion semimetal and topological Fermi arcs
journal, July 2015

Experimental observation of Weyl points
journal, July 2015

Experimental Discovery of Weyl Semimetal TaAs
journal, July 2015

Observation of Weyl nodes in TaAs
journal, August 2015

Discovery of a Weyl fermion state with Fermi arcs in niobium arsenide
journal, August 2015

Experimental discovery of a topological Weyl semimetal state in TaP
journal, November 2015

Weyl semimetal phase in the non-centrosymmetric compound TaAs
journal, August 2015

Atomic-Scale Visualization of Quantum Interference on a Weyl Semimetal Surface by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
journal, December 2015

Observation of Fermi arc surface states in a topological metal
journal, December 2014

Observation of Fermi Arcs in Non-Centrosymmetric Weyl Semi-Metal Candidate NbP
journal, September 2015

Variationally optimized atomic orbitals for large-scale electronic structures
journal, April 2003

Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
journal, October 1996

New Metal-rich Phosphides of Niobium, Tantalum and Tungsten
journal, August 1966

Stacking disorder in NbP, TaP, NbAs and TaAs
journal, June 1984

Crystal Structure, Electrical Transport, and Magnetic Properties of Niobium Monophosphide
journal, January 1996

Maximally localized generalized Wannier functions for composite energy bands
journal, November 1997

wannier90: A tool for obtaining maximally-localised Wannier functions
journal, May 2008

Fermi surface interconnectivity and topology in Weyl fermion semimetals TaAs, TaP, NbAs, and NbP
journal, December 2015

Evolution of the Fermi surface of Weyl semimetals in the transition metal pnictide family
journal, November 2015

Anisotropic thermoelectric properties of Weyl semimetal NbX (X = P and As): a potential thermoelectric material
journal, January 2019

Anisotropic thermoelectric properties of Weyl semimetal NbX (X = P and As): a potential thermoelectric material
journal, January 2019

Direct observation of nonequivalent Fermi-arc states of opposite surfaces in the noncentrosymmetric Weyl semimetal NbP
journal, April 2016

Orbital Fingerprint of Topological Fermi Arcs in the Weyl Semimetal TaP
journal, March 2019

Epsilon-near-zero response and tunable perfect absorption in Weyl semimetals
journal, August 2018

Fermi Arcs and DC Transport in Nanowires of Dirac and Weyl Semimetals
journal, December 2019

Layered Topological Insulators and Semimetals for Magnetoresistance Type Sensors
journal, December 2018

Quantum transport in topological semimetals under magnetic fields (II)
journal, April 2019

Photonic crystals possessing multiple Weyl points and the experimental observation of robust surface states
journal, October 2016

Discovery of a new type of topological Weyl fermion semimetal state in MoxW1−xTe2
journal, December 2016

Weyl semimetals, Fermi arcs and chiral anomalies
journal, October 2016

Direct optical detection of Weyl fermion chirality in a topological semimetal
journal, May 2017

Tunable anomalous Hall conductivity through volume-wise magnetic competition in a topological kagome magnet
journal, January 2020

Topological chiral crystals with helicoid-arc quantum states
journal, March 2019

Validity of Weyl fermion picture for transition metals monopnictides TaAs, TaP, NbAs, and NbP from ab initio studies
journal, February 2018

Discovery of topological nodal-line fermionic phase in a magnetic material GdSbTe
journal, September 2018

Room-temperature magnetic topological Weyl fermion and nodal line semimetal states in half-metallic Heusler Co2TiX (X=Si, Ge, or Sn)
journal, December 2016

Dowsing for nodal lines in a topological semimetal
journal, December 2018

Quantum transport in Dirac and Weyl semimetals: a review
journal, May 2017

Symmetry demanded topological nodal-line materials
journal, January 2018

Quasiparticle interference on type-I and type-II Weyl semimetal surfaces: a review
journal, January 2018

Elastic phononic plates with first-order and second-order topological phases
journal, January 2020

Electronic transport property in Weyl semimetal with local Weyl cone tilt
journal, February 2018

Zitterbewegung in time-reversal Weyl semimetals
journal, May 2018

Andreev reflection in nodal-line Weyl semimetal
journal, February 2020

Imaging electronic states on topological semimetals using scanning tunneling microscopy
journal, October 2016

Weak-value amplification for Weyl-point separation in momentum space
journal, October 2018

Electronic non-coplanar refraction and deflected diffraction of Weyl-node-mismatch junctions
journal, November 2019

Nonlocal transport in superconducting heterostructures based on Weyl semimetals
journal, August 2019

Evolution of pair correlation symmetries and supercurrent reversal in tilted Weyl semimetals
journal, January 2020

Observation of topological nodal fermion semimetal phase in ZrSiS
journal, May 2016

Topological density-wave states in a particle-hole symmetric Weyl metal
journal, August 2016

Bulk spectroscopic measurement of the topological charge of Weyl nodes with resonant x rays
journal, September 2016

Prediction and control of spin polarization in a Weyl semimetallic phase of BiSb
journal, October 2016

Magnetotransport and de Haas–van Alphen measurements in the type-II Weyl semimetal ${TaIrTe}_{4}$
journal, October 2016

Minimal models for topological Weyl semimetals
journal, February 2017

Prediction of a magnetic Weyl semimetal without spin-orbit coupling and strong anomalous Hall effect in the Heusler compensated ferrimagnet ${Ti}_{2} MnAl$
journal, February 2018

Topological surface Fermi arcs in the magnetic Weyl semimetal Co 3 Sn 2 S 2
journal, June 2018

Chiral optical response of multifold fermions
journal, October 2018

Green's function of semi-infinite Weyl semimetals
journal, November 2018

Fermi arc engineering at the interface between two Weyl semimetals
journal, November 2018

Transport across junctions of a Weyl and a multi-Weyl semimetal
journal, February 2019

Tunable surface plasmons in Weyl semimetals TaAs and NbAs
journal, March 2019

Phononic Weyl points and one-way topologically protected nontrivial phononic surface arc states in noncentrosymmetric WC-type materials
journal, May 2019

Signatures of Fermi Arcs in the Quasiparticle Interferences of the Weyl Semimetals TaAs and NbP
journal, February 2016

Spin Polarization and Texture of the Fermi Arcs in the Weyl Fermion Semimetal TaAs
journal, March 2016

From Dirac Semimetals to Topological Phases in Three Dimensions: A Coupled-Wire Construction
journal, February 2019

Weyl and Dirac semimetals in three-dimensional solids
journal, January 2018

Visualizing weakly bound surface Fermi arcs and their correspondence to bulk Weyl fermions
journal, August 2016