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

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Chang, Tay-Rong, Xu, Su-Yang, Chang, Guoqing, Lee, Chi-Cheng, Huang, Shin-Ming, Wang, BaoKai, Bian, Guang, Zheng, Hao, Sanchez, Daniel S., Belopolski, Ilya, Alidoust, Nasser, Neupane, Madhab, Bansil, Arun, Jeng, Horng-Tay, Lin, Hsin, Zahid Hasan, M.·2016·Nature Communications
DOI 10.1038/ncomms10639
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A Weyl semimetal is a new state of matter that hosts Weyl fermions as emergent quasiparticles. The Weyl fermions correspond to isolated points of bulk band degeneracy, Weyl nodes, which are connected only through the crystal’s boundary by exotic Fermi arcs. The length of the Fermi arc gives a measure of the topological strength, because the only way to destroy the Weyl nodes is to annihilate them in pairs in the reciprocal space. To date, Weyl semimetals are only realized in the TaAs class. Here, we propose a tunable Weyl state in MoxW 1−xTe 2 where Weyl nodes are formed by touching points between metallic pockets. We show that the Fermi arc length can be changed as a function of Mo concentration, thus tuning the topological strength. Our results provide an experimentally feasible route to realizing Weyl physics in the layered compound MoxW 1−xTe 2, where non-saturating magneto-resistance and pressure-driven superconductivity have been observed.

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Chang, T.-R., Xu, S.-Y., Chang, G., Lee, C.-C., Huang, S.-M., Wang, B., Bian, G., Zheng, H., Sanchez, D. S., Belopolski, I., Alidoust, N., Neupane, M., Bansil, A., Jeng, H.-T., Lin, H., & Zahid Hasan, M.
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Nature Communications
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2016-02-15
Volume
7
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1
Pages
10639-10639
ISSN
2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1038/ncomms10639
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286
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Chang, T.-R., Xu, S.-Y., Chang, G., Lee, C.-C., Huang, S.-M., Wang, B., Bian, G., Zheng, H., Sanchez, D. S., Belopolski, I., Alidoust, N., Neupane, M., Bansil, A., Jeng, H.-T., Lin, H., & Zahid Hasan, M. (2016). Prediction of an arc-tunable Weyl Fermion metallic state in MoxW1−xTe2. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10639

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