Nature Communications (Feb 2016)
Signatures of the Adler–Bell–Jackiw chiral anomaly in a Weyl fermion semimetal
- Cheng-Long Zhang,
- Su-Yang Xu,
- Ilya Belopolski,
- Zhujun Yuan,
- Ziquan Lin,
- Bingbing Tong,
- Guang Bian,
- Nasser Alidoust,
- Chi-Cheng Lee,
- Shin-Ming Huang,
- Tay-Rong Chang,
- Guoqing Chang,
- Chuang-Han Hsu,
- Horng-Tay Jeng,
- Madhab Neupane,
- Daniel S. Sanchez,
- Hao Zheng,
- Junfeng Wang,
- Hsin Lin,
- Chi Zhang,
- Hai-Zhou Lu,
- Shun-Qing Shen,
- Titus Neupert,
- M. Zahid Hasan,
- Shuang Jia
Affiliations
- Cheng-Long Zhang
- International Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University
- Su-Yang Xu
- Department of Physics, Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Spectroscopy (B7), Princeton University
- Ilya Belopolski
- Department of Physics, Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Spectroscopy (B7), Princeton University
- Zhujun Yuan
- International Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University
- Ziquan Lin
- Wuhan National High Magnetic Field Center, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
- Bingbing Tong
- International Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University
- Guang Bian
- Department of Physics, Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Spectroscopy (B7), Princeton University
- Nasser Alidoust
- Department of Physics, Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Spectroscopy (B7), Princeton University
- Chi-Cheng Lee
- Centre for Advanced 2D Materials and Graphene Research Centre, National University of Singapore
- Shin-Ming Huang
- Centre for Advanced 2D Materials and Graphene Research Centre, National University of Singapore
- Tay-Rong Chang
- Department of Physics, Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Spectroscopy (B7), Princeton University
- Guoqing Chang
- Centre for Advanced 2D Materials and Graphene Research Centre, National University of Singapore
- Chuang-Han Hsu
- Centre for Advanced 2D Materials and Graphene Research Centre, National University of Singapore
- Horng-Tay Jeng
- Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University
- Madhab Neupane
- Department of Physics, Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Spectroscopy (B7), Princeton University
- Daniel S. Sanchez
- Department of Physics, Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Spectroscopy (B7), Princeton University
- Hao Zheng
- Department of Physics, Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Spectroscopy (B7), Princeton University
- Junfeng Wang
- Wuhan National High Magnetic Field Center, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
- Hsin Lin
- Centre for Advanced 2D Materials and Graphene Research Centre, National University of Singapore
- Chi Zhang
- International Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University
- Hai-Zhou Lu
- Department of Physics, South University of Science and Technology of China
- Shun-Qing Shen
- Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong
- Titus Neupert
- Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton University
- M. Zahid Hasan
- Department of Physics, Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Spectroscopy (B7), Princeton University
- Shuang Jia
- International Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10735
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 7,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
Anomalous conducting behavior of solids may reflect the presence of novel quantum states. Here, Zhang et al. report an increased conductivity in TaAs with a magnetic field applied along the direction of the current, which reveals an inherent property of the Weyl Fermion.
