Signatures of a time-reversal symmetric Weyl semimetal with only four Weyl points

Through intense research on Weyl semimetals during the past few years, we have come to appreciate that typical Weyl semimetals host many Weyl points. Nonetheless, the minimum nonzero number of Weyl points allowed in a time-reversal invariant Weyl semimetal is four. Realizing such a system is of fund...

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Main Authors: Belopolski, Ilya, Yu, Peng, Sanchez, Daniel S., Ishida, Yukiaki, Chang, Tay-Rong, Zhang, Songtian S., Xu, Su-Yang, Zheng, Hao, Chang, Guoqing, Bian, Guang, Jeng, Horng-Tay, Kondo, Takeshi, Lin, Hsin, Liu, Zheng, Shin, Shik, Hasan, M. Zahid
Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/89528
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44971
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:Through intense research on Weyl semimetals during the past few years, we have come to appreciate that typical Weyl semimetals host many Weyl points. Nonetheless, the minimum nonzero number of Weyl points allowed in a time-reversal invariant Weyl semimetal is four. Realizing such a system is of fundamental interest and may simplify transport experiments. Recently, it was predicted that TaIrTe4 realizes a minimal Weyl semimetal. However, the Weyl points and Fermi arcs live entirely above the Fermi level, making them inaccessible to conventional angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES). Here, we use pump-probe ARPES to directly access the band structure above the Fermi level in TaIrTe4. We observe signatures of Weyl points and topological Fermi arcs. Combined with ab initio calculation, our results show that TaIrTe4 is a Weyl semimetal with the minimum number of four Weyl points. Our work provides a simpler platform for accessing exotic transport phenomena arising in Weyl semimetals.