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Topological Semimetals

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2016-11-23 v1
Authors: A. A. Burkov
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Abstract

Topological semimetals and metals have emerged as a new frontier in the field of quantum materials. Novel macroscopic quantum phenomena they exhibit are not only of fundamental interest, but may hold some potential for technological applications.

Keywords

topological phases of matter topological quantum field theory mathematical physics

Cite

@article{arxiv.1610.07866,
  title  = {Topological Semimetals},
  author = {A. A. Burkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.07866},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

5 pages, 3 figures. Commentary article for Nature Materials

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