Weyl semimetal phase in noncentrosymmetric transition-metal monophosphides

Physical Review X

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Weng, Hongming ^a,b   Fang, Chen ^c   Fang, Zhong ^a,b   Andrei Bernevig, B ^d   Dai, Xi ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

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

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Condensed matter physics; Materials science; Topological insulators

Indexed keywords

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS; DISPERSIONS; MATERIALS SCIENCE; METALLOIDS; MIRRORS;

BRILLOUIN ZONES; ENERGY MOMENTUM; FIRST PRINCIPLE CALCULATIONS; INVERSION CENTER; NON-CENTROSYMMETRIC; NON-MAGNETIC MATERIALS; SPIN-ORBIT COUPLINGS; TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS;

TRANSITION METALS;

EID: 84961290720     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.5.011029     Document Type: Article

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