Experimental observation of topological Fermi arcs in type-II Weyl semimetal MoTe2
Abstract
Observations of topological surface states provide strong evidence that MoTe2 is a type-II Weyl semimetal, hosting Weyl fermions that have no counterpart in high-energy physics.
- Publication:
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Nature Physics
- Pub Date:
- December 2016
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- arXiv:
- arXiv:1603.08508
- Bibcode:
- 2016NatPh..12.1105D
- Keywords:
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- Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
- E-Print:
- submitted on 01/29/2016. Nature Physics, in press. Spectroscopic evidence of the Fermi arcs from two complementary surface sensitive probes - ARPES and STS. A comparison of the calculated band structure for T_d and 1T' phase to identify the topological Fermi arcs in the T_d phase is also included in the supplementary information