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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 114, Issue 20, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.206401
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- Computational Materials Science Initiative (CMSI)
- Strategic Programs for Innovative Research (SPIRE), MEXT, Japan
- MEXT Elements Strategy Initiative
- [22104010]
- [24540420]
- [26287062]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26103006, 24540420, 26287062] Funding Source: KAKEN
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We study Weyl nodes in materials with broken inversion symmetry. We find based on first-principles calculations that trigonal Te and Se have multiple Weyl nodes near the Fermi level. The conduction bands have a spin splitting similar to the Rashba splitting around the H points, but unlike the Rashba splitting the spin directions are radial, forming a hedgehog spin texture around the H points, with a nonzero Pontryagin index for each spin-split conduction band. The Weyl semimetal phase, which has never been observed in real materials without inversion symmetry, is realized under pressure. The evolution of the spin texture by varying the pressure can be explained by the evolution of the Weyl nodes in k space.
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