Nature Communications (Feb 2016)

Aharonov–Bohm oscillations in Dirac semimetal Cd3As2 nanowires

  • Li-Xian Wang,
  • Cai-Zhen Li,
  • Da-Peng Yu,
  • Zhi-Min Liao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10769
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Dirac semimetals are a three-dimensional analogue of graphene that can support massless Dirac fermions in their bulk and Fermi-arc surface states. Here, the authors observe Aharonov–Bohm oscillations in transport measurements on Cd3As2nanowires, revealing these exotic surface states.