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Nature Communications, volume 7, issue 1, publication number 11136
Symmetry-protected ideal Weyl semimetal in HgTe-class materials
Jiawei Ruan
1
,
Shao-Kai Jian
2
,
Hong Yao
2, 3
,
Haijun Zhang
1
,
Shou Cheng Zhang
4
,
Dingyu Xing
1
3
Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing, China
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Publication type: Journal Article
Publication date: 2016-04-01
Journal:
Nature Communications
Quartile SCImago
Q1
Quartile WOS
Q1
Impact factor: 16.6
ISSN: 20411723, 20411723
General Chemistry
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
General Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
Ideal Weyl semimetals with all Weyl nodes exactly at the Fermi level and no coexisting trivial Fermi surfaces in the bulk, similar to graphene, could feature deep physics such as exotic transport phenomena induced by the chiral anomaly. Here, we show that HgTe and half-Heusler compounds, under a broad range of in-plane compressive strain, could be materials in nature realizing ideal Weyl semimetals with four pairs of Weyl nodes and topological surface Fermi arcs. Generically, we find that the HgTe-class materials with nontrivial band inversion and noncentrosymmetry provide a promising arena to realize ideal Weyl semimetals. Such ideal Weyl semimetals could further provide a unique platform to study emergent phenomena such as the interplay between ideal Weyl fermions and superconductivity in the half-Heusler compound LaPtBi. Ideal Weyl semimetals, similar to graphene, show peculiar features such as exotic electronic transport. Here, Ruan et al. predict that strain-tuned HgTe-class materials can become ideal Weyl semimetals, which could provide a promising platform to study emergent topological phenomena.
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Ruan J. et al. Symmetry-protected ideal Weyl semimetal in HgTe-class materials // Nature Communications. 2016. Vol. 7. No. 1. 11136
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TY - JOUR
DO - 10.1038/ncomms11136
UR - https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11136
TI - Symmetry-protected ideal Weyl semimetal in HgTe-class materials
T2 - Nature Communications
AU - Ruan, Jiawei
AU - Jian, Shao-Kai
AU - Yao, Hong
AU - Zhang, Haijun
AU - Zhang, Shou Cheng
AU - Xing, Dingyu
PY - 2016
DA - 2016/04/01 00:00:00
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@article{2016_Ruan,
author = {Jiawei Ruan and Shao-Kai Jian and Hong Yao and Haijun Zhang and Shou Cheng Zhang and Dingyu Xing},
title = {Symmetry-protected ideal Weyl semimetal in HgTe-class materials},
journal = {Nature Communications},
year = {2016},
volume = {7},
publisher = {Springer Nature},
month = {apr},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11136},
number = {1},
doi = {10.1038/ncomms11136}
}