Experimental discovery of a topological Weyl semimetal state in TaP

Abstract

Weyl semimetals are expected to open up new horizons in physics and materials science because they provide the first realization of Weyl fermions and exhibit protected Fermi arc surface states. However, they had been found to be extremely rare in nature. Recently, a family of compounds, consisting of TaAs, TaP, NbAs and NbP was predicted as Weyl semimetal candidates. Here, we experimentally realize a Weyl semimetal state in TaP. Using photoemission spectroscopy, we directly observe the Weyl fermion cones and nodes in the bulk and the Fermi arcs on the surface. Moreover, we find that the surface states show an unexpectedly rich structure, including both topological Fermi arcs and several topologically-trivial closed contours in the vicinity of the Weyl points, which provides a promising platform to study the interplay between topological and trivial surface states on a Weyl semimetal's surface. We directly demonstrate the bulk-boundary correspondence and hence establish the topologically nontrivial nature of the Weyl semimetal state in TaP, by resolving the net number of chiral edge modes on a closed path that encloses the Weyl node. This also provides, for the first time, an experimentally practical approach to demonstrating a bulk Weyl fermion from a surface state dispersion measured in photoemission.

Theoretical discovery of TaP as a Weyl Fermion material (November 2014) was made in http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/150612/ncomms8373/full/ncomms8373.html

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• Discovery of a Weyl Fermion Semimetal and Topological Fermi Arcs
• Theoretical Discovery/Prediction: Weyl Semimetal states in the TaAs material (TaAs, NbAs, NbP, TaP) class
• Phase transition between the quantum spin Hall and insulator phases in 3D: emergence of a topological gapless phase
• Experimental observation of Weyl points
• Observation of Weyl nodes in TaAs
• Discovery of a Weyl Fermion semimetal state in NbAs
• Observation of Weyl nodes and Fermi arcs in TaP
• Friedel oscillations due to Fermi arcs in Weyl semimetals
• Superconductivity in Weyl metals
• Time-reversal invariant topological superconductivity in doped Weyl semimetals

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