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arXiv:1801.03626 · doi:10.1038/s41567-017-0032-5
Abstract
Enabled by recent advances in symmetry and electronic structure, researchers have observed signatures of unconventional threefold degeneracies in tungsten carbide, challenging a longstanding paradigm in nodal semimetals.
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