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Weyl Semimetal (Theory)

2011
PhysicsCondensed Matter / Materials PhysicsTheoremfoundational

Theoretical prediction (Wan, Turner, Vishwanath & Savrasov, 2011) that pyrochlore iridates could realize a Weyl semimetal phase -- a 3D analogue of graphene's Dirac points hosting emergent massless Weyl fermions with topologically protected Fermi-arc surface states.

Discovery Velocity

Normalized OpenAlex paper velocity, one point per year.

Originators

  • Xiangang Wan
  • Ari M. Turner
  • Ashvin Vishwanath
  • Sergey Y. Savrasov

Landmark Paper

W1538825449 ↗
Not retracted (OpenAlex)

Checked 2026-08-30 — interim signal only, see docs/BASIC_ROADMAP.md Phase 10

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Connections

No verified edges into the applied tree or elsewhere in Basic yet — never rendered as fabricated, just absent.