Chirality meets Topology

Abstract

By considering the topology of chiral crystals a new type of massless fermions, connected with giant arc-like surface states, are predicted. Such Kramers-Weyl fermions should manifest in a wide variety of chiral materials

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• Topological quantum chemistry
• Beyond Dirac and Weyl fermions: Unconventional quasiparticles in conventional crystals
• Topological quantum properties of chiral crystals
• Experimental Observation of Three-Component 'New Fermions' in Topological Semimetal MoP

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