Experimental observation of Weyl points

DOI10.1126/SCIENCE.AAA9273zbMATH Open1355.81088arXiv1502.03438OpenAlexW2142930680WikidataQ50881574 ScholiaQ50881574MaRDI QIDQ2961797FDOQ2961797

Authors: Ling Lü, Zhiyu Wang, Dexin Ye, Lixin Ran, Liang Fu, John D. Joannopoulos, Marin Soljačić 

Publication date: 15 February 2017

Published in: Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In 1929, Hermann Weyl derived the massless solutions from the Dirac equation - the relativistic wave equation for electrons. Neutrinos were thought, for decades, to be Weyl fermions until the discovery of the neutrino mass. Moreover, it has been suggested that low energy excitations in condensed matter can be the solutions to the Weyl Hamiltonian. Recently, photons have also been proposed to emerge as Weyl particles inside photonic crystals. In all cases, two linear dispersion bands in the three-dimensional (3D) momentum space intersect at a single degenerate point - the Weyl point. Remarkably, these Weyl points are monopoles of Berry flux with topological charges defined by the Chern numbers. These topological invariants enable materials containing Weyl points to exhibit a wide variety of novel phenomena including surface Fermi arcs, chiral anomaly, negative magnetoresistance, nonlocal transport, quantum anomalous Hall effect, unconventional superconductivity[15] and others [16, 17]. Nevertheless, Weyl points are yet to be experimentally observed in nature. In this work, we report on precisely such an observation in an inversion-breaking 3D double-gyroid photonic crystal without breaking time-reversal symmetry.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.03438

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups and algebras in quantum theory and relations with integrable systems (81R12) Experimental work for problems pertaining to quantum theory (81-05)

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