Topological nodal-line fermions in spin-orbit metal PbTaSe2

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Bian, Guang ^a   Chang, Tay Rong ^a,b   Sankar, Raman ^c   Xu, Su Yang ^a   Zheng, Hao ^a   Neupert, Titus ^a   Chiu, Ching Kai ^d   Huang, Shin Ming ^e,f   Chang, Guoqing ^e,f   Belopolski, Ilya ^a   Sanchez, Daniel S ^a   Neupane, Madhab ^a   Alidoust, Nasser ^a   Liu, Chang ^a   Wang, BaoKai ^e,f,g   Lee, Chi Cheng ^e,f   Jeng, Horng Tay ^b,h   Zhang, Chenglong ⁱ   Yuan, Zhujun ⁱ   Jia, Shuang ⁱ   Bansil, Arun ^g   Chou, Fangcheng ^c   Lin, Hsin ^e,f   Hasan, M Zahid ^a   more..

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e National University of Singapore   (Singapore)

^f NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^g NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

ⁱ PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MOMENTUM; NUMERICAL MODEL; SURFACE AREA; SYMMETRY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

FERMION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 84957566877     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10556     Document Type: Article

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