Prediction of an arc-tunable Weyl Fermion metallic state in MoxW1-xTe2

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Chang, Tay Rong ^a   Xu, Su Yang ^b   Chang, Guoqing ^c,d   Lee, Chi Cheng ^c,d   Huang, Shin Ming ^c,d   Wang, BaoKai ^c,d,e   Bian, Guang ^b   Zheng, Hao ^b   Sanchez, Daniel S ^b   Belopolski, Ilya ^b   Alidoust, Nasser ^b   Neupane, Madhab ^b,f   Bansil, Arun ^e   Jeng, Horng Tay ^a,g   Lin, Hsin ^c,d   Zahid Hasan, M ^b,h  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c National University of Singapore   (Singapore)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

^h Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY; CRITICAL STATE; FUNDAMENTAL PARTICLE; PHYSICS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TOPOLOGY;

FERMION; PHYSICS; PREDICTION;

EID: 84958212204     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10639     Document Type: Article

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