Nature Communications (Aug 2016)

Photonic Weyl degeneracies in magnetized plasma

  • Wenlong Gao,
  • Biao Yang,
  • Mark Lawrence,
  • Fengzhou Fang,
  • Benjamin Béri,
  • Shuang Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12435
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Weyl particles are massless relativistic fermions recently observed in solid-state materials where they are characterized by Weyl points: topologically protected crossings in their band structure. Here, the authors demonstrate a novel type of plasmonic Weyl point in a magnetized plasma.