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Magnetic torque anomaly in the quantum limit of Weyl semimetals

Electrons in materials with linear dispersion behave as massless Weyl- or Dirac-quasiparticles, and continue to intrigue due to their close resemblance to elusive ultra-relativistic particles as well as their potential for future electronics. Yet the exper ...

2016

Transport evidence for Fermi-arc-mediated chirality transfer in the Dirac semimetal Cd3As2

Philip Johannes Walter Moll

The dispersion of charge carriers in a metal is distinctly different from that of free electrons owing to their interactions with the crystal lattice. These interactions may lead to quasiparticles mimicking the massless relativistic dynamics of high-energy ...

2016

Robust Type-II Weyl Semimetal Phase in Transition Metal Diphosphides XP2 (X = Mo, W)

Oleg Yazyev, Gabriel Albert Autes

The recently discovered type-II Weyl points appear at the boundary between electron and hole pockets. Type-II Weyl semimetals that host such points are predicted to exhibit a new type of chiral anomaly and possess thermodynamic properties very different fr ...

Amer Physical Soc2016

Dirac fermions at high-index surfaces of bismuth chalcogenide topological insulator nanostructures

Oleg Yazyev, Naunidh Singh Virk

Binary bismuth chalcogenides Bi2Se3, Bi2Te3, and related materials are currently being extensively investigated as the reference topological insulators (TIs) due to their simple surface-state band dispersion (single Dirac cone) and relatively large bulk ba ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

A Theoretical Investigation of Topological Insulator Nanostructures

Naunidh Singh Virk

The topology of the electron wavefunctions in certain band insulators can give rise to novel topological phases. Materials harbouring such topological phases are termed topological insulators (TI). A gapped bulk electronic spectrum, described by a topologi ...

EPFL2016

Weyl and Ricci gauging from the coset construction

Alexander Monin, Georgios Karananas

In this paper we demonstrate how, using the coset construction, a theory can be systematically made Weyl invariant by gauging the scale symmetry. We show that an analog of the inverse Higgs constraint allows the elimination of the Weyl vector (gauge) field ...

Amer Physical Soc2016

Weyl vs. conformal

Alexander Monin, Georgios Karananas

In this note we show that given a conformally invariant theory in flat space-time, it is not always possible to couple it to gravity in a Weyl invariant way. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY li ...

Elsevier2016

Observation of Weyl nodes in TaAs

Joël Mesot

In 1929, H. Weyl proposed that the massless solution of the Dirac equation represents a pair of a new type of particles, the so-called Weyl fermions1. However, their existence in particle physics remains elusive after more than eight decades. Recently, sig ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Ultrafast electron dynamics in epitaxial graphene investigated with time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy

Marco Grioni, Alberto Crepaldi, Jens Christian Johannsen

In order to exploit the intriguing optical properties of graphene it is essential to gain a better understanding of the light-matter interaction in the material on ultrashort timescales. Exciting the Dirac fermions with intense ultrafast laser pulses trigg ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Orbit- and atom-resolved spin textures of intrinsic, extrinsic, and hybridized Dirac cone states

Jan Hugo Dil, Feng Liu, Chang Liu

Combining first-principles calculations and spin-and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy measurements, we identify the helical spin textures for three different Dirac cone states in the interfaced systems of a two-dimensional (2D) topological insulat ...

2014

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