Handedness-dependent quasiparticle interference in the two enantiomers of the topological chiral semimetal PdGa

Direct visualization of chiral effects in topological chiral semimetals remains elusive. Here, Sessi et al. demonstrate that quasiparticle scattering at impurities in the two enantiomers of PdGa gives rise to handedness dependent quantum interference patterns.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Paolo Sessi, Feng-Ren Fan, Felix Küster, Kaustuv Manna, Niels B. M. Schröter, Jing-Rong Ji, Samuel Stolz, Jonas A. Krieger, Ding Pei, Timur K. Kim, Pavel Dudin, Cephise Cacho, Roland Widmer, Horst Borrmann, Wujun Shi, Kai Chang, Yan Sun, Claudia Felser, Stuart S. P. Parkin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17261-x