Experimental discovery of Weyl semimetal TaAs

• 作 者: Xianhui Chen
• 机 构: Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and Department of Physics, University
• 出 处: Science China Materials
• 发表日期: 2015年09期
• 关键词: Dirac condensed Fermi exotic until momentum immense bands publications projected

In 1929,Weyl H.proposed that the massless solution of the Dirac equation represents a pair of a new type of particles,the so-called Weyl fermions[1].However,their existence as a fundamental particle remains evasive after more than eight decades.Neutrinos were once considered to be Weyl fermions until its mass was found.Recently,it was proposed that Weyl fermions can be hosted in a class of exotic condensed matter,so called Weyl semimetal(WSM),

In 1929, Weyl H.proposed that the massless solution of the Dirac equation represents a pair of a new type of particles, the so-called Weyl fermions [1] .However, their existence as a fundamental particle remains evasive after more than eight decades .Neutrinos were once considered to be Weyl fermions until its mass was found. Published, it was proposed that Weyl fermions can be hosted in a class of exotic condensed matter, so called Weyl semimetal (WSM),