Experimental discovery of weyl semimetal TaAs

Physical Review X

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Lv, B Q ^a   Weng, H M ^a,b   Fu, B B ^a   Wang, X P ^a,b,c   Miao, H ^a   Ma, J ^a   Richard, P ^a,b   Huang, X C ^a   Zhao, L X ^a   Chen, G F ^a,b   Fang, Z ^a,b   Dai, X ^a,b   Qian, T ^a   Ding, H ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter ^*  (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Condensed matter physics

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; CALCULATIONS; CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT; SURFACE STATES; TANTALUM COMPOUNDS;

ANGLE RESOLVED PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; EXOTIC PROPERTIES; EXPERIMENTAL REALIZATIONS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; INVERSION SYMMETRY; MAGNETIC MONOPOLES; MOMENTUM SPACES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ANALOG;

METALLOIDS;

EID: 84939851776     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.5.031013     Document Type: Article

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