Physicists have discovered a new topological phase of matter, the Weyl semimetal, whose surface features a non-closed Fermi surface whereas the low-energy quasiparticles in the bulk emerge as Weyl fermions. A brief review of these developments and perspectives on the next steps forward are presented.
References
Weyl, H. Z. Phys. 56, 330–352 (1929).
Herring, C. Phys. Rev. 52, 365–373 (1937).
Murakami, S. New J. Phys. 9, 356 (2007).
Wan, X., Turner, A. M., Vishwanath, A. & Savrasov, S. Y. Phys. Rev. B 83, 205101 (2011).
Yang, K.-Y., Lu, Y.-M., Ran, Y. Phys. Rev. B 84, 075129 (2011).
Burkov, A. A. & Balents, L. Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 127205 (2011).
Xu, G. et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 186806 (2011).
Volovik, G. E. The Universe in a Helium Droplet (Oxford Univ. Press, 2009).
Ciudad, D. Nat. Mater. 14, 863 (2015).
Hasan, M. Z., Xu, S.-Y., Belopolski, B. & Huang, S.-M. Annu. Rev. Cond. Mat. Phys. (in the press).
Hasan, M. Z., Xu, S.-Y. & Bian, G. Phys. Scripta 164, 014001 (2015).
Xu, S.-Y. et al. Science 332, 560–564 (2011).
Singh, B. et al. Phys. Rev. B 86, 115208 (2012).
Huang, S. M., Xu, S.-Y. et al. Nat. Commun. 6, 7373 (2015).
Xu, S.-Y. et al. Science 349, 613–617 (2015).
Xu, S.-Y. et al. Science 347, 294–298 (2015).
Weng, H. et al. Phys. Rev. X 5, 011029 (2015).
Lv, B. Q. et al. Phys. Rev. X 5, 031013 (2015).
Huang, X. et al. Phys. Rev. X 5, 031023 (2015).
Zhang, C. et al. Nat. Commun. 7, 10735 (2016).
Xu, S.-Y. et al. Nat. Phys. 11, 748–754 (2015).
Liu, Z. et al. Nat. Mater. 15, 27–31 (2016).
Lv, B. Q. et al. Nat. Phys. 11, 724727 (2015).
Belopolski, I. et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 066802 (2016).
Hasan, M. Z. & Kane, C. L. Rev. Mod. Phys. 82, 3045–3067 (2010).
Hasan, M. Z. & Moore, J. E. Annu. Rev. Cond. Mat. Phys. 2, 55 (2011).
Chang, G. et al. Sci. Adv. 2, e1600295 (2016).
Huang, S.-M. et al. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 113, 1180–1185 (2016).
Soluyanov, A. A. et al. Nature 527, 495–498 (2015).
Sun, Y. et al. Preprint at http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.03501 (2015).
Chang, T.-R. et al. Nat. Commun. 7, 10639 (2016).
Wang, Z. et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 056805 (2016).
Xu, S.-Y. et al. Preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.07318 (2016).
Belopolski, I. et al. Phys. Rev. B 94, 085127 (2016).
Huang, L. et al. Nat. Mater. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmat4685 (2016).
Xiong, J. et al. Science 350, 413–416 (2015).
Li, Q. et al. Nat. Phys. 12, 550–554 (2016).
Wu, R. et al. Phys. Rev. X 6, 021017 (2016).
Zhang, Y. et al. Preprint at http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.03576 (2016).
Parameswaran, S. A. et al. Phys. Rev. X 4, 031035 (2014).
Potter, A. C. et al. Nat. Commun. 5, 5161 (2014).
Chan, C.-K., Lee, P. A., Burch, K. S., Han, J. H. & Ran, Y. Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 026805 (2016).
Wang, Y.-H. et al. Science 342, 453–457 (2013).
Chan, C.-K., Lindner, N. H., Refael, G. & Lee, P. A. Preprint at http://arxiv.org/abs/1607.07839 (2016).
Bian, G. et al. Nat. Commun. 7, 10556 (2016).
Acknowledgements
We thank I. Belopolski, S.-M. Huang, G. Bian, N. Alidoust and M. Neupane for comments, and D. Haldane, I. Klebanov and E. Witten for discussion as a part of Princeton Summer School on New Insights Into Quantum Matter as a part of Prospects in Theoretical Physics Program at IAS. S.J. is supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2014CB239302 and No. 2013CB921901). Work at Princeton by S.-Y.X and M.Z.H. is supported by the US Department of Energy under Basic Energy Sciences (Grant No. DOE/BES DE-FG-02-05ER46200 and No. DE-AC02-05CH11231 at Advanced Light Source at LBNL) and Princeton University funds. M.Z.H. acknowledges Visiting Scientist user support from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, PRISM, and partial support from the Moore Foundation.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding authors
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Jia, S., Xu, SY. & Hasan, M. Weyl semimetals, Fermi arcs and chiral anomalies. Nature Mater 15, 1140–1144 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4787
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4787
- Springer Nature Limited
This article is cited by
-
Tunable positions of Weyl nodes via magnetism and pressure in the ferromagnetic Weyl semimetal CeAlSi
Nature Communications (2024)
-
Twisted photonic Weyl meta-crystals and aperiodic Fermi arc scattering
Nature Communications (2024)
-
Effective electrical manipulation of a topological antiferromagnet by orbital torques
Nature Communications (2024)
-
Impinge Weyl advantages on light
Light: Science & Applications (2023)
-
Emergence of Weyl fermions by ferrimagnetism in a noncentrosymmetric magnetic Weyl semimetal
Nature Communications (2023)