TaIrTe4: A ternary type-II Weyl semimetal

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Beitragende

  • K. Koepernik - , Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Autor:in)
  • D. Kasinathan - , Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids (Autor:in)
  • D. V. Efremov - , Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Autor:in)
  • Seunghyun Khim - , Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Autor:in)
  • Sergey Borisenko - , Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Autor:in)
  • Bernd Büchner - , Professur für Experimentelle Festkörperphysik (gB/IFW), Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Autor:in)
  • Jeroen Van Den Brink - , Professur für Festkörpertheorie (gB/IFW), Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden, Harvard University (Autor:in)

Abstract

In metallic condensed matter systems two different types of Weyl fermions can in principle emerge, with either a vanishing (type-I) or with a finite (type-II) density of states at the Weyl node energy. So far only WTe2 and MoTe2 were predicted to be type-II Weyl semimetals. Here we identify TaIrTe4 as a third member of this family of topological semimetals. TaIrTe4 has the attractive feature that it hosts only four well-separated Weyl points, the minimum imposed by symmetry. Moreover, the resulting topological surface states - Fermi arcs connecting Weyl nodes of opposite chirality - extend to about 1/3 of the surface Brillouin zone. This large momentum-space separation is very favorable for detecting the Fermi arcs spectroscopically and in transport experiments.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
FachzeitschriftPhysical Review B
Jahrgang93
Ausgabenummer20
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 5 Mai 2016
Peer-Review-StatusJa