Nature Communications (Dec 2016)
Discovery of a new type of topological Weyl fermion semimetal state in MoxW1−xTe2
- Ilya Belopolski,
- Daniel S. Sanchez,
- Yukiaki Ishida,
- Xingchen Pan,
- Peng Yu,
- Su-Yang Xu,
- Guoqing Chang,
- Tay-Rong Chang,
- Hao Zheng,
- Nasser Alidoust,
- Guang Bian,
- Madhab Neupane,
- Shin-Ming Huang,
- Chi-Cheng Lee,
- You Song,
- Haijun Bu,
- Guanghou Wang,
- Shisheng Li,
- Goki Eda,
- Horng-Tay Jeng,
- Takeshi Kondo,
- Hsin Lin,
- Zheng Liu,
- Fengqi Song,
- Shik Shin,
- M. Zahid Hasan
Affiliations
- Ilya Belopolski
- 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
- Yukiaki Ishida
- The Institute for Solid State Physics (ISSP), University of Tokyo, Kashiwa-no-ha
- Xingchen Pan
- and Department of Physics, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University
- Peng Yu
- Centre for Programmable Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University
- Su-Yang Xu
- 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
- Tay-Rong Chang
- Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University
- Hao Zheng
- 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
- Guang Bian
- Department of Physics, Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Spectroscopy (B7), Princeton University
- Madhab Neupane
- Department of Physics, University of Central Florida
- Shin-Ming Huang
- Centre for Advanced 2D Materials and Graphene Research Centre, National University of Singapore
- Chi-Cheng Lee
- Centre for Advanced 2D Materials and Graphene Research Centre, National University of Singapore
- You Song
- State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University
- Haijun Bu
- and Department of Physics, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University
- Guanghou Wang
- and Department of Physics, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University
- Shisheng Li
- Centre for Advanced 2D Materials and Graphene Research Centre, National University of Singapore
- Goki Eda
- Centre for Advanced 2D Materials and Graphene Research Centre, National University of Singapore
- Horng-Tay Jeng
- Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University
- Takeshi Kondo
- The Institute for Solid State Physics (ISSP), University of Tokyo, Kashiwa-no-ha
- Hsin Lin
- Centre for Advanced 2D Materials and Graphene Research Centre, National University of Singapore
- Zheng Liu
- Centre for Programmable Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University
- Fengqi Song
- and Department of Physics, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University
- Shik Shin
- The Institute for Solid State Physics (ISSP), University of Tokyo, Kashiwa-no-ha
- M. Zahid Hasan
- Department of Physics, Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Spectroscopy (B7), Princeton University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13643
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 7,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
A Type II Weyl fermion semimetal has been predicted in MoxW1−xTe2, but it awaits experimental evidence. Here, Belopolski et al. observe a topological Fermi arc in MoxW1−xTe2, showing it originates from a Type II Weyl fermion and offering a new platform to study novel transport phenomena in Weyl semimetals.
