Nature Communications (Mar 2016)
Observation of Weyl nodes and Fermi arcs in tantalum phosphide
- N. Xu,
- H. M. Weng,
- B. Q. Lv,
- C. E. Matt,
- J. Park,
- F. Bisti,
- V. N. Strocov,
- D. Gawryluk,
- E. Pomjakushina,
- K. Conder,
- N. C. Plumb,
- M. Radovic,
- G. Autès,
- O. V. Yazyev,
- Z. Fang,
- X. Dai,
- T. Qian,
- J. Mesot,
- H. Ding,
- M. Shi
Affiliations
- N. Xu
- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut
- H. M. Weng
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- B. Q. Lv
- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut
- C. E. Matt
- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut
- J. Park
- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut
- F. Bisti
- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut
- V. N. Strocov
- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut
- D. Gawryluk
- Laboratory for Developments and Methods, Paul Scherrer Institut
- E. Pomjakushina
- Laboratory for Developments and Methods, Paul Scherrer Institut
- K. Conder
- Laboratory for Developments and Methods, Paul Scherrer Institut
- N. C. Plumb
- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut
- M. Radovic
- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut
- G. Autès
- Institute of Theoretical Physics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- O. V. Yazyev
- Institute of Theoretical Physics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- Z. Fang
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- X. Dai
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- T. Qian
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- J. Mesot
- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut
- H. Ding
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- M. Shi
- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11006
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 7,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 7
Abstract
Weyl semimetals exhibit exotic properties owing to the presence of Weyl fermions. Here, Xu et al. show that tantalum phosphide is an ideal platform for studying the transport properties of these particles because its low-energy properties are dominated by a single type of Weyl fermion.
