A minimal ``hydrogen atom" version of a time reversal invariant Weyl semimetal

ORAL

Abstract

Typical Weyl semimetals host many Weyl points; for instance, TaAs has 24 Weyl points. However, the minimal nonzero number of Weyl points for a time reversal invariant crystal is four. Finding such a material would provide the simplest ``hydrogen atom" example of a Weyl semimetal. Applications may also be simpler in a system with as few Weyl points as possible. TaIrTe$_4$ is predicted to be a minimal Weyl semimetal. However, the Weyl points are well above the Fermi level, making them inaccessible to conventional ARPES. Here, we use pump-probe ARPES to directly observe Weyl points and topological Fermi arcs in TaIrTe$_4$ above the Fermi level. We find a total of four Weyl points, demonstrating the first minimal Weyl semimetal.

*Work at Princeton University and Princeton-led synchrotron-based ARPES measurements is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under Basic Energy Sciences Grant No. DOE/BES DE-FG-02-05ER46200.

Authors

  • Songtian S. Zhang

    • Princeton Univ
  • Ilya Belopolski

    • Princeton Univ
  • Peng Yu

    • Nanyang Technical Univ
  • Daniel S. Sanchez

    • Princeton Univ
  • Yukiaki Ishida

    • Univ of Tokyo
  • Tay-Rong Chang

    • National Tsing Hua Univ
  • Su-Yang Xu

    • Princeton Univ
  • Daixiang Mou

    • Iowa State Univ
  • Hao Zheng

    • Princeton Univ
  • Guoqing Chang

    • National Univ of Singapore
  • Guang Bian

    • Princeton Univ
  • Horng-Tay Jeng

    • National Tsing Hua Univ
  • Takeshi Kondo

    • Univ of Tokyo
  • Adam Kaminski

    • Iowa State Univ
  • Hsin Lin

    • National Univ of Singapore
  • Zheng Liu

    • Nanyang Technical Univ
  • Shik Shin

    • Univ of Tokyo
  • Zahid Hasan

    • Princeton Univ