Nature Communications (May 2018)

Chiral Landau levels in Weyl semimetal NbAs with multiple topological carriers

  • Xiang Yuan,
  • Zhongbo Yan,
  • Chaoyu Song,
  • Mengyao Zhang,
  • Zhilin Li,
  • Cheng Zhang,
  • Yanwen Liu,
  • Weiyi Wang,
  • Minhao Zhao,
  • Zehao Lin,
  • Tian Xie,
  • Jonathan Ludwig,
  • Yuxuan Jiang,
  • Xiaoxing Zhang,
  • Cui Shang,
  • Zefang Ye,
  • Jiaxiang Wang,
  • Feng Chen,
  • Zhengcai Xia,
  • Dmitry Smirnov,
  • Xiaolong Chen,
  • Zhong Wang,
  • Hugen Yan,
  • Faxian Xiu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04080-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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How the carriers behave in a Weyl semimetal if they occupy the lowest Landau level remains elusive. Here, the authors report evidences of electrons occupying zeroth chiral Landau levels with distinct linear dispersion behaviors for two inequivalent Weyl nodes in a Weyl semimetal NbAs.