Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Extremely high magnetoresistance and conductivity in the type-II Weyl semimetals WP2 and MoP2

  • Nitesh Kumar,
  • Yan Sun,
  • Nan Xu,
  • Kaustuv Manna,
  • Mengyu Yao,
  • Vicky Süss,
  • Inge Leermakers,
  • Olga Young,
  • Tobias Förster,
  • Marcus Schmidt,
  • Horst Borrmann,
  • Binghai Yan,
  • Uli Zeitler,
  • Ming Shi,
  • Claudia Felser,
  • Chandra Shekhar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01758-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Semimetals with the band structure exhibiting Dirac and Weyl crossings can show special electronic and magnetic properties. Here the authors explore the electronic properties of the type-II Weyl semimetals, MoP2 and WP2 with robust Weyl points which display very high magnetoresistance and conductivity.