Axionic charge-density wave in the Weyl semimetal (TaSe

Journal

Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
11 2019
Historique:
received: 14 11 2018
accepted: 19 07 2019
pubmed: 8 10 2019
medline: 8 10 2019
entrez: 8 10 2019
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

An axion insulator is a correlated topological phase, which is predicted to arise from the formation of a charge-density wave in a Weyl semimetal

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1630-4 PMID: 31590178
pubmed: 31590178
doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1630-4
pii: 10.1038/s41586-019-1630-4
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

315-319

Commentaires et corrections

Type : ErratumIn

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Auteurs

J Gooth (J)

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany. johannes.gooth@cpfs.mpg.de.

B Bradlyn (B)

Department of Physics and Institute for Condensed Matter Theory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.

S Honnali (S)

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany.

C Schindler (C)

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany.

N Kumar (N)

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany.

J Noky (J)

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany.

Y Qi (Y)

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany.

C Shekhar (C)

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany.

Y Sun (Y)

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany.

Z Wang (Z)

Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

B A Bernevig (BA)

Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
Dahlem Center for Complex Quantum Systems and Fachbereich Physik, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle, Germany.

C Felser (C)

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany.

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