Quantized surface transport in topological Dirac semimetal films

@article{Nishihaya2019QuantizedST,
  title={Quantized surface transport in topological Dirac semimetal films},
  author={Shinichi Nishihaya and Masaki Uchida and Yusuke Nakazawa and Ryosuke Kurihara and Kazuto Akiba and Markus Kriener and Atsushi Miyake and Yasujiro Taguchi and Masashi Tokunaga and Masashi Kawasaki},
  journal={Nature Communications},
  year={2019},
  volume={10}
}
Unconventional surface states protected by non-trivial bulk orders are sources of various exotic quantum transport in topological materials. One prominent example is the unique magnetic orbit, so-called Weyl orbit, in topological semimetals where two spatially separated surface Fermi-arcs are interconnected across the bulk. The recent observation of quantum Hall states in Dirac semimetal Cd3As2 bulks have drawn attention to the novel quantization phenomena possibly evolving from the Weyl orbit… 
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