Discovery of a Weyl Fermion semimetal state in NbAs

Su-Yang Xu; Nasser Alidoust; Ilya Belopolski; Chenglong Zhang; Guang Bian; Tay-Rong Chang; Hao Zheng; Vladimir Strokov; Daniel S. Sanchez; Guoqing Chang; Zhujun Yuan; Daixiang Mou; Yun Wu; Lunan Huang; Chi-Cheng Lee; Shin-Ming Huang; BaoKai Wang; Arun Bansil; Horng-Tay Jeng; Titus Neupert; Adam Kaminski; Hsin Lin; Shuang Jia; M. Zahid Hasan

doi:10.1038/nphys3437

Discovery of a Weyl Fermion semimetal state in NbAs

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-09-10 v2

Authors: Su-Yang Xu , Nasser Alidoust , Ilya Belopolski , Chenglong Zhang , Guang Bian , Tay-Rong Chang , Hao Zheng , Vladimir Strokov , Daniel S. Sanchez , Guoqing Chang , Zhujun Yuan , Daixiang Mou , Yun Wu , Lunan Huang , Chi-Cheng Lee , Shin-Ming Huang , BaoKai Wang , Arun Bansil , Horng-Tay Jeng , Titus Neupert , Adam Kaminski , Hsin Lin , Shuang Jia , M. Zahid Hasan

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Abstract

We report the discovery of Weyl semimetal NbAs featuring topological Fermi arc surface states.

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Weyl semimetal NbAs topological surface states Fermi arc discovery

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@article{arxiv.1504.01350,
  title  = {Discovery of a Weyl Fermion semimetal state in NbAs},
  author = {Su-Yang Xu and Nasser Alidoust and Ilya Belopolski and Chenglong Zhang and Guang Bian and Tay-Rong Chang and Hao Zheng and Vladimir Strokov and Daniel S. Sanchez and Guoqing Chang and Zhujun Yuan and Daixiang Mou and Yun Wu and Lunan Huang and Chi-Cheng Lee and Shin-Ming Huang and BaoKai Wang and Arun Bansil and Horng-Tay Jeng and Titus Neupert and Adam Kaminski and Hsin Lin and Shuang Jia and M. Zahid Hasan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.01350},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Accepted by NaturePhysics (in press), Theoretical discovery of NbAs as a Weyl Fermion material (November 2014): http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/150612/ncomms8373/full/ncomms8373.html

Discovery of a Weyl Fermion semimetal state in NbAs

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