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非中心对称化合物TaAs中Weyl半金属的发现

Discovery of a Weyl Semimetal in non-Centrosymmetric Compound TaAs

Lexian Yang, Zhongkai Liu, Yan Sun, Han Peng, Haifeng Yang, Teng Zhang, Bo Zhou, Yi Zhang, Yanfeng Guo, Marein Rahn, Dharmalingam Prabhakaran, Zahid Hussain, Su… 展开作者

Lexian Yang, Zhongkai Liu, Yan Sun, Han Peng, Haifeng Yang, Teng Zhang, Bo Zhou, Yi Zhang, Yanfeng Guo, Marein Rahn, Dharmalingam Prabhakaran, Zahid Hussain, Sung-Kwan Mo, Claudia Felser, Binghai Yan, Yulin Chen

摘要:

三维拓扑外尔半金属(3D topological Weyl semimetals,TWS)是一种新型的量子物质态,其电子结构类似于“3D graphene”和拓扑绝缘体,具有由拓扑表面态连接的外尔点对(电子带沿所有三个动量方向线性分散),形成独特的“费米弧”型费米面(Fermi-arc type Fermi surface,FS)。每个外尔点都是手征的,并且包含狄拉克点的一半自由度,并且可以被看作是动量空间中的磁链。在这里,通过对非中心对称的化合物TaAs进行角分辨光电子能谱,我们观察到其完整的能带结构,包括独特的“费米弧”FS和线性体带色散跨Weyl点,在良好的协议与理论计算。这一发现不仅证实了TaAs是第一个三维TWS,而且为实现奇异的物理现象(例如负磁阻,手性磁效应和量子反常霍尔效应)提供了理想的平台,这也可能导致新的未来应用。

英文摘要:

Three-dimensional (3D) topological Weyl semimetals (TWSs) represent a novel state of quantum matter with unusual electronic structures that resemble both a "3D graphene" and a topological insulator by possessing pairs of Weyl points (through which the electronic bands disperse linearly along all three momentum directions) connected by topological surface states, forming the unique "Fermi-arc" type Fermi-surface (FS). Each Weyl point is chiral and contains half of the degrees of freedom of a Dirac point, and can be viewed as a magnetic monopole in the momentum space. Here, by performing angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy on non-centrosymmetric compound TaAs, we observed its complete band structures including the unique "Fermi-arc" FS and linear bulk band dispersion across the Weyl points, in excellent agreement with the theoretical calculations. This discovery not only confirms TaAs as the first 3D TWS, but also provides an ideal platform for realizing exotic physical phenomena (e.g. negative magnetoresistance, chiral magnetic effects and quantum anomalous Hall effect) which may also lead to novel future applications.

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