Nature Communications (Nov 2018)

Evidence for Weyl fermions in a canonical heavy-fermion semimetal YbPtBi

  • C. Y. Guo,
  • F. Wu,
  • Z. Z. Wu,
  • M. Smidman,
  • C. Cao,
  • A. Bostwick,
  • C. Jozwiak,
  • E. Rotenberg,
  • Y. Liu,
  • F. Steglich,
  • H. Q. Yuan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06782-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Weyl fermions are evidenced in weakly correlated electron systems, but whether they survive strong electron correlations remains obscure. Here, Guo et al. report evidence of the chiral anomaly, topological Hall effect and a cubic temperature dependence of specific heat, suggesting existence of Weyl fermions in a heavy fermion semimetal YbPtBi.