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arXiv:1503.02630cond-mat.mes-hall

Observation of the Adler-Bell-Jackiw chiral anomaly in a Weyl semimetal

Chenglong Zhang, Su-Yang Xu, Ilya Belopolski, Zhujun Yuan, Ziquan Lin, Bingbing Tong, Nasser Alidoust, Chi-Cheng Lee, Shin-Ming Huang, Hsin Lin, Madhab Neupane, Daniel S. Sanchez, Hao Zheng, Guang Bian, Junfeng Wang, Chi Zhang, Titus Neupert, M. Zahid Hasan, Shuang Jia

Abstract

We report the experimental discovery of Adler-Bell-Jackiw chiral anomaly in a Weyl semimetal crystal.

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18 pages, 4 Figures; Related experimental papers at http://physics.princeton.edu/zahidhasangroup/index.html
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cond-mat.mes-hallMesoscale and Nanoscale Physics hep-exHigh Energy Physics, Experiment

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    • There was some other discussion on HN about this discovery four days ago[0], based on the press release from the competing MIT team. Both papers were published in the same issue of Science[1,2] (preprints[3,4]). [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9899369 [1]…

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  2. Weyl points, first predicted in 1929, observed for the first time 1 comment

    • The Princeton group's has a different title, and was posted March 9 (I downloaded it about a month later so pulled it off my hard drive when I saw this comment) http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02630v1

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