Fermi arc electronic structure and Chern numbers in the type-II Weyl semimetal candidate Mox W1-xTe2

Physical Review B

Volumn 94, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Belopolski, Ilya ^a   Xu, Su Yang ^a   Ishida, Yukiaki ^b   Pan, Xingchen ^c   Yu, Peng ^d   Sanchez, Daniel S ^a   Zheng, Hao ^a   Neupane, Madhab ^e   Alidoust, Nasser ^a   Chang, Guoqing ^f,g   Chang, Tay Rong ^h   Wu, Yun ⁱ   Bian, Guang ^a   Huang, Shin Ming ^f,g,j   Lee, Chi Cheng ^f,g   Mou, Daixiang ⁱ   Huang, Lunan ⁱ   Song, You ^k   Wang, Baigeng ^c   Wang, Guanghou ^c   Yeh, Yao Wen ^l   Yao, Nan ^l   Rault, Julien E ^m   Le Fèvre, Patrick ^m   Bertran, François ^m   Jeng, Horng Tay ^h,n   Kondo, Takeshi ^b   Kaminski, Adam ⁱ   Lin, Hsin ^f,g   Liu, Zheng ^d,o,p   Song, Fengqi ^c   Shin, Shik ^b   Hasan, M Zahid ^a,l   more..

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^f National University of Singapore   (Singapore)

^g NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^h NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

ⁱ IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^k NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^l Princeton University   (United States)

^m SYNCHROTRON SOLEIL   (France)

ⁿ INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

^o NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^p RESEARCH TECHNO PLAZA   (Singapore)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; CALCULATIONS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; PROBES;

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; CHERN NUMBERS; ELECTRONIC BAND STRUCTURE; FERMI ARCS; LORENTZ INVARIANCE; PUMP PROBE; TYPE II;

TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84986004251     PISSN: 24699950     EISSN: 24699969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.94.085127     Document Type: Article

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