Symmetry-protected ideal Weyl semimetal in HgTe-class materials

Ideal Weyl semimetals, similar to graphene, show peculiar features such as exotic electronic transport. Here, Ruan et al. predict that strain-tuned HgTe-class materials can become ideal Weyl semimetals, which could provide a promising platform to study emergent topological phenomena.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jiawei Ruan, Shao-Kai Jian, Hong Yao, Haijun Zhang, Shou-Cheng Zhang, Dingyu Xing
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11136