Dirac versus Weyl fermions in topological insulators: Adler-Bell-Jackiw anomaly in transport phenomena

Dirac metals (gapless semiconductors) are believed to turn into Weyl metals when perturbations, which break either time reversal symmetry or inversion symmetry, are employed. However, no experimental evidence has been reported for the existence of Weyl fermions in three dimensions. Applying magnetic...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physical review letters 2013-12, Vol.111 (24), p.246603-246603, Article 246603
Hauptverfasser: Kim, Heon-Jung, Kim, Ki-Seok, Wang, J-F, Sasaki, M, Satoh, N, Ohnishi, A, Kitaura, M, Yang, M, Li, L
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Zusammenfassung:Dirac metals (gapless semiconductors) are believed to turn into Weyl metals when perturbations, which break either time reversal symmetry or inversion symmetry, are employed. However, no experimental evidence has been reported for the existence of Weyl fermions in three dimensions. Applying magnetic fields near the topological phase transition from a topological insulator to a band insulator in Bi1-xSbx we observe not only the weak antilocalization phenomenon in magnetoconductivity near zero magnetic fields (B
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/physrevlett.111.246603