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NATURE MATERIALS
Volume 15, Issue 11, Pages 1155-+Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4685
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- US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Science and Engineering Division
- US Department of Energy [DE-AC02-07CH11358]
- Center for Emergent Materials, an NSF MRSEC [DMR-1420451]
- NSF [DMR-1309461]
- Simons Foundation [343227]
- US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, Scientific User Facilities Division
- Materials Science and Engineering Division
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [15K17713, 15H05883] Funding Source: KAKEN
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Materials Research [1309461] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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In a type I Dirac or Weyl semimetal, the low-energy states are squeezed to a single point in momentum space when the chemical potential mu is tuned precisely to the Dirac/Weyl point(1-6). Recently, a type II Weyl semimetal was predicted to exist, where the Weyl states connect hole and electron bands, separated by an indirect gap(7-10). This leads to unusual energy states, where hole and electron pockets touch at the Weyl point. Here we present the discovery of a type II topological Weyl semimetal state in pure MoTe2, where two sets of Weyl points. (W2(+/-), W3(+/-)) exist at the touching points of electron and hole pockets and are located at different binding energies above E-F. Using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, modelling, density functional theory and calculations of Berry curvature, we identify the Weyl points and demonstrate that they are connected by different sets of Fermi arcs for each of the two surface terminations. We also find new surface 'track states' that form closed loops and are unique to type II Weyl semimetals. This material provides an exciting, new platform to study the properties of Weyl fermions.
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