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most citedDiscovery of a Weyl Fermion Semimetal and Topological Fermi Arcs

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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 84 cited

Observation of Weyl fermions in a magnetic non-centrosymmetric crystal

Daniel S. Sanchez, Guoqing Chang, Ilya Belopolski +15

Characterized by the absence of inversion symmetry, non-centrosymmetric materials are of great interest because they exhibit ferroelectricity, second harmonic generation, emergent…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017

A novel artificial condensed matter lattice and a new platform for one-dimensional topological phases

Ilya Belopolski, Su-Yang Xu, Nikesh Koirala +22

Engineered lattices in condensed matter physics, such as cold atom optical lattices or photonic crystals, can have fundamentally different properties from naturally-occurring elect…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 190 cited

Discovery of a new type of topological Weyl fermion semimetal state in MoWTe

Ilya Belopolski, Daniel S. Sanchez, Yukiaki Ishida +23

The recent discovery of a Weyl semimetal in TaAs offers the first Weyl fermion observed in nature and dramatically broadens the classification of topological phases. However, in Ta…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 206 cited

Theoretical prediction of magnetic and noncentrosymmetric Weyl fermion semimetal states in the R-Al-X family of compounds (R=rare earth, Al=aluminium, X=Si, Ge)

Guoqing Chang, Bahadur Singh, Su-Yang Xu +18

Weyl semimetals are novel topological conductors that host Weyl fermions as emergent quasiparticles. While the Weyl fermions in high-energy physics are strictly defined as the mass…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 175 cited

Room-temperature magnetic topological semimetal state in half-metallic Heusler CoTiX (X=Si, Ge, or Sn)

Guoqing Chang, Su-Yang Xu, Hao Zheng +8

Topological semimetals (TSMs) including Weyl semimetals and nodal-line semimetals are expected to open the next frontier of condensed matter and materials science. Although the fir…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 760 cited

Signatures of the Adler-Bell-Jackiw chiral anomaly in a Weyl Fermion semimetal

Chenglong Zhang, Su-Yang Xu, Ilya Belopolski +20

Weyl semimetals provide the realization of Weyl fermions in solid-state physics. Among all the physical phenomena that are enabled by Weyl semimetals, the chiral anomaly is the mos…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 19 cited

Unoccupied electronic structure and signatures of topological Fermi arcs in the Weyl semimetal candidate MoWTe

Ilya Belopolski, Su-Yang Xu, Yukiaki Ishida +30

Weyl semimetals have sparked intense research interest, but experimental work has been limited to the TaAs family of compounds. Recently, a number of theoretical works have predict…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 5 cited

A strongly robust Weyl fermion semimetal state in TaS

Guoqing Chang, Su-Yang Xu, Daniel S. Sanchez +11

Weyl semimetals are extremely interesting. Although the first Weyl semimetal was recently discovered in TaAs, research progress is still significantly hindered due to the lack of r…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 129 cited

Atomic Scale Visualization of Quantum Interference on a Weyl Semimetal Surface by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy/Spectroscopy

Hao Zheng, Su-Yang Xu, Guang Bian +19

Weyl semimetals may open a new era in condensed matter physics, materials science and nanotech after graphene and topological insulators. We report the first atomic scale view of t…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 125 cited

Spin polarization and texture of the Fermi arcs in the Weyl Fermion semimetal TaAs

Su-Yang Xu, Ilya Belopolski, Daniel S. Sanchez +25

A Weyl semimetal is a new state of matter that host Weyl fermions as quasiparticle excitations. The Weyl fermions at zero energy correspond to points of bulk band degeneracy, Weyl…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 288 cited

Arc-tunable Weyl Fermion metallic state in MoWTe

Tay-Rong Chang, Su-Yang Xu, Guoqing Chang +13

Weyl semimetals may open a new era in condensed matter physics because they provide the first example of Weyl fermions, realize a new topological classification even though the sys…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 1.6k cited

Theoretical Discovery/Prediction: Weyl Semimetal states in the TaAs material (TaAs, NbAs, NbP, TaP) class

Shin-Ming Huang, Su-Yang Xu, Ilya Belopolski +9

The recent discoveries of Dirac fermions in graphene and on the surface of topological insulators have ignited worldwide interest in physics and materials science. A Weyl semimetal…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 60 cited

Optical evidence of surface state suppression in Bi based topological insulators

Anjan A. Reijnders, Y. Tian, L. J. Sandilands +13

A key challenge in condensed matter research is the optimization of topological insulator (TI) compounds for the study and future application of their unique surface states. Truly…