A proposed materials design principle can facilitate the discovery of strongly correlated topological semimetals. It predicts promising candidate materials by cross referencing theoretical models based on realistic crystal structures with a materials database. This approach is verified by synthesizing and experimentally investigating a proposed material.
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A design principle to predict strongly correlated topological semimetals. Nat. Phys. 18, 1285–1286 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-022-01737-2
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