Nature Communications (Sep 2016)

Observation of unusual topological surface states in half-Heusler compounds LnPtBi (Ln=Lu, Y)

  • Z. K. Liu,
  • L. X. Yang,
  • S.-C. Wu,
  • C. Shekhar,
  • J. Jiang,
  • H. F. Yang,
  • Y. Zhang,
  • S.-K. Mo,
  • Z. Hussain,
  • B. Yan,
  • C. Felser,
  • Y. L. Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12924
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Heusler compounds have been predicted to host topological order with other emergent properties, which yet awaits for experimental evidence. Here, Liu et al. report a direct observation of topological surface states on half-Heusler compounds LnPtBi.