Weyl Semimetal Phase in Noncentrosymmetric Transition- Metal Monophosphides
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Hongming Weng, Chen Fang, Zhong Fang, B. Andrei Bernevig, and Xi Dai Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing 100084, China Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA (Received 12 January 2015; published 17 March 2015)
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