Photonic Weyl degeneracies in magnetized plasma

Weyl particles are massless relativistic fermions recently observed in solid-state materials where they are characterized by Weyl points: topologically protected crossings in their band structure. Here, the authors demonstrate a novel type of plasmonic Weyl point in a magnetized plasma.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wenlong Gao, Biao Yang, Mark Lawrence, Fengzhou Fang, Benjamin Béri, Shuang Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12435