Advanced Topics on Condensed Matter Physics-20150924-Realization of topological Weyl semimetals in the non-centrosymmetric compounds TaAs class

凝態物理專題演講

Advanced Topics on Condensed Matter Physics

Department of Physics, NCU

 

Realization of topological Weyl semimetals in the non-centrosymmetric compounds TaAs class

 

Speaker

Shin-Ming Huang (黃信銘)

Research Fellow in the Department of Physics,

National University of Singapore

 

Date  2015.9.24 (Thur)

Time  14:00

Place  S4-625

 

Abstract:

A three-dimensional Weyl semimetal, resembling a 3D graphene, is a nodal semimetal, in which linear electronic dispersion can be found near the node. The node, dubbed a Weyl point, can be viewed as a magnetic monopole in momentum space and carries a topological charge. The nontrivial topology will result in a unique topological surface state connecting a pair of Weyl points. In this talk, I will introduce some basic knowledge of topology and symmetry for this subject, and then report our recent progress on the Weyl semimetals in TaAs class.