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Lighting up Weyl semimetals

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By measuring the photocurrent from illuminated Weyl semimetals, an optical signature of topological properties arising from Weyl fermions has been revealed, highlighting nonlinear optical effects and applications of Weyl semimetals.

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Fig. 1: Shining light on a Weyl semimetal to generate photocurrent through the interaction of light with Weyl nodes.

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  1. Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Hongming Weng

  3. CAS Center for Excellence in Topological Quantum Computation, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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  4. Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan, Guangdong, China

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Weng, H. Lighting up Weyl semimetals. Nat. Mater. 18, 428–429 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-019-0330-7

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