Nature Communications (Jan 2017)
Signature of type-II Weyl semimetal phase in MoTe2
- J. Jiang,
- Z.K. Liu,
- Y. Sun,
- H.F. Yang,
- C.R. Rajamathi,
- Y.P. Qi,
- L.X. Yang,
- C. Chen,
- H. Peng,
- C-C. Hwang,
- S.Z. Sun,
- S-K. Mo,
- I. Vobornik,
- J. Fujii,
- S.S.P. Parkin,
- C. Felser,
- B.H. Yan,
- Y.L. Chen
Affiliations
- J. Jiang
- School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University and CAS-Shanghai Science Research Center
- Z.K. Liu
- School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University and CAS-Shanghai Science Research Center
- Y. Sun
- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
- H.F. Yang
- Department of Physics, University of Oxford
- C.R. Rajamathi
- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
- Y.P. Qi
- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
- L.X. Yang
- Department of Physics and Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, State Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Quantum Physics, Tsinghua University
- C. Chen
- Department of Physics, University of Oxford
- H. Peng
- Department of Physics, University of Oxford
- C-C. Hwang
- Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, POSTECH
- S.Z. Sun
- Hefei Science Center, CAS and SCGY, University of Science and Technology of China
- S-K. Mo
- Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- I. Vobornik
- Istituto Officina dei Materiali (IOM)-CNR, Laboratorio TASC
- J. Fujii
- Istituto Officina dei Materiali (IOM)-CNR, Laboratorio TASC
- S.S.P. Parkin
- Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics
- C. Felser
- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
- B.H. Yan
- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
- Y.L. Chen
- School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University and CAS-Shanghai Science Research Center
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13973
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 8,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 6
Abstract
A special class of topological Weyl semimetal state is predicted without respecting Lorentz symmetry. Here, Jianget al. report direct visualization of the unique surface Fermi arcs of MoTe2, confirming its type-II topological Weyl semimetal nature.
