Discovery of a Weyl fermion state with Fermi arcs in niobium arsenide

Nature Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 748-754

  Xu, Su Yang ^a,b   Alidoust, Nasser ^a,b   Belopolski, Ilya ^a,b   Yuan, Zhujun ^c   Bian, Guang ^a   Chang, Tay Rong ^a,d   Zheng, Hao ^a   Strocov, Vladimir N ^e   Sanchez, Daniel S ^a   Chang, Guoqing ^f,g   Zhang, Chenglong ^c   Mou, Daixiang ^h,i   Wu, Yun ^h,i   Huang, Lunan ^h,i   Lee, Chi Cheng ^f,g   Huang, Shin Ming ^f,g   Wang, Baokai ^f,g,j   Bansil, Arun ^j   Jeng, Horng Tay ^d,k   Neupert, Titus ^a   Kaminski, Adam ^h,i   Lin, Hsin ^f,g   Jia, Shuang ^c,l   Hasan, M Zahid ^a,b   more..

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^f National University of Singapore   (Singapore)

^g NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^h U S DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY   (United States)

ⁱ IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

^l The Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter   (China)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ELECTRONS; NIOBIUM; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; X RAYS;

BAND STRUCTURE CALCULATION; BULK ELECTRONIC STRUCTURES; DIRAC FERMIONS; EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH; INVERSION SYMMETRY; LOW-ENERGY ELECTRONIC EXCITATIONS; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE; ULTRAVIOLET PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPY;

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EID: 84940790420     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys3437     Document Type: Article

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