A Weyl Fermion semimetal with surface Fermi arcs in the transition metal monopnictide TaAs class

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Huang, Shin Ming ^a,b   Xu, Su Yang ^c   Belopolski, Ilya ^c   Lee, Chi Cheng ^a,b   Chang, Guoqing ^a,b   Wang, Baokai ^a,b,d   Alidoust, Nasser ^c   Bian, Guang ^c   Neupane, Madhab ^c,e   Zhang, Chenglong ^f   Jia, Shuang ^f,g   Bansil, Arun ^d   Lin, Hsin ^a,b   Hasan, M Zahid ^c  

^a National University of Singapore   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g ICQM School of Physics Peking University ^*  (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOPNICTIDE; TANTALUM; TRANSITION ELEMENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CRYSTAL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUNDAMENTAL PARTICLE; MAGNETIC FIELD; PARTICLE MOTION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TOPOLOGY; TRANSITION ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; FERMI ARCS; FERMION; HOST; MAGNETISM; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; PHASE TRANSITION; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SURFACE PROPERTY; VOLUME; WEYL FERMION;

EID: 84935480287     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8373     Document Type: Article

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