Signatures of Fermi Arcs in the Quasiparticle Interferences of the Weyl Semimetals TaAs and NbP

Guoqing Chang, Su Yang Xu, Hao Zheng, Chi Cheng Lee, Shin Ming Huang, Ilya Belopolski, Daniel S. Sanchez, Guang Bian, Nasser Alidoust, Tay Rong Chang, Chuang Han Hsu, Horng Tay Jeng, Arun Bansil, Hsin Lin, M. Zahid Hasan

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摘要

The recent discovery of the first Weyl semimetal in TaAs provides the first observation of a Weyl fermion in nature. Such a topological semimetal features a novel type of anomalous surface state, the Fermi arc, which connects a pair of Weyl nodes through the boundary of the crystal. Here, we present theoretical calculations of the quasiparticle interference (QPI) patterns that arise from the surface states including the topological Fermi arcs in the Weyl semimetals TaAs and NbP. Most importantly, we discover that the QPI exhibits termination points that are fingerprints of the Weyl nodes in the interference pattern. Our results, for the first time, propose a universal interference signature of the topological Fermi arcs in TaAs, which is fundamental for scanning tunneling microscope (STM) measurements on this prototypical Weyl semimetal compound. More generally, our work provides critical guideline and methodology for STM studies on new Weyl semimetals. Further, the scattering channels revealed by our QPIs are broadly relevant to surface transport and device applications based on Weyl semimetals.

原文English
文章編號066601
期刊Physical review letters
116
發行號6
DOIs
出版狀態Published - 2016 2月 10

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • 一般物理與天文學

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