Observation of Weyl nodes in TaAs
B. Q. Lv,B. Q. Lv,Nan Xu,Nan Xu,Hongming Weng,Junzhang Ma,Junzhang Ma,Pierre Richard,Xiong Huang,Lin Zhao,Genfu Chen,Christian Matt,Federico Bisti,Vladimir N. Strocov,Joël Mesot,Joël Mesot,Joël Mesot,Zhong Fang,Xi Dai,Tian Qian,Ming Shi,Hong Ding +21 more
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In this article, the authors reported the direct observation in TaAs of the long-sought-after Weyl nodes by performing bulk-sensitive soft X-ray angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy measurements.Abstract:
Experiments show that TaAs is a three-dimensional topological Weyl semimetal. In 1929, H. Weyl proposed that the massless solution of the Dirac equation represents a pair of a new type of particles, the so-called Weyl fermions1. However, their existence in particle physics remains elusive after more than eight decades. Recently, significant advances in both topological insulators and topological semimetals have provided an alternative way to realize Weyl fermions in condensed matter, as an emergent phenomenon: when two non-degenerate bands in the three-dimensional momentum space cross in the vicinity of the Fermi energy (called Weyl nodes), the low-energy excitations behave exactly as Weyl fermions. Here we report the direct observation in TaAs of the long-sought-after Weyl nodes by performing bulk-sensitive soft X-ray angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy measurements. The projected locations at the nodes on the (001) surface match well to the Fermi arcs, providing undisputable experimental evidence for the existence of Weyl fermionic quasiparticles in TaAs.read more
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