Type-II Weyl semimetals

Nature

Volumn 527, Issue 7579, 2015, Pages 495-498

  Soluyanov, Alexey A ^a   Gresch, Dominik ^a   Wang, Zhijun ^b   Wu, Quansheng ^a   Troyer, Matthias ^a   Dai, Xi ^c   Bernevig, B Andrei ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

METAL; TRANSITION ELEMENT;

ELECTRON; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; PARTICLE SIZE; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TOPOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CHIRALITY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON; FERMION; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MAGNETIC FIELD; PARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; THERMODYNAMICS;

MAJORANA;

EID: 84948421290     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature15768     Document Type: Article

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