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Symmetry-protected ideal Weyl semimetal in HgTe-class materials

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  • Jiawei Ruan

    (National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University)

  • Shao-Kai Jian

    (Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University)

  • Hong Yao

    (Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University
    Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter)

  • Haijun Zhang

    (National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University)

  • Shou-Cheng Zhang

    (Stanford University)

  • Dingyu Xing

    (National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University)

Abstract

Ideal Weyl semimetals with all Weyl nodes exactly at the Fermi level and no coexisting trivial Fermi surfaces in the bulk, similar to graphene, could feature deep physics such as exotic transport phenomena induced by the chiral anomaly. Here, we show that HgTe and half-Heusler compounds, under a broad range of in-plane compressive strain, could be materials in nature realizing ideal Weyl semimetals with four pairs of Weyl nodes and topological surface Fermi arcs. Generically, we find that the HgTe-class materials with nontrivial band inversion and noncentrosymmetry provide a promising arena to realize ideal Weyl semimetals. Such ideal Weyl semimetals could further provide a unique platform to study emergent phenomena such as the interplay between ideal Weyl fermions and superconductivity in the half-Heusler compound LaPtBi.

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  • Jiawei Ruan & Shao-Kai Jian & Hong Yao & Haijun Zhang & Shou-Cheng Zhang & Dingyu Xing, 2016. "Symmetry-protected ideal Weyl semimetal in HgTe-class materials," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 7(1), pages 1-6, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:7:y:2016:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms11136
    DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11136
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