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Extremely high magnetoresistance and conductivity in the type-II Weyl semimetal WP2

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Abstract

The experimental realisation of tungsten diphosphide, WP2, a type-II Weyl semimetal with robust Weyl points is presented. Weyl points are closely located to each other in the Brillouin zone but here are of the same chirality and are therefore protected against annihilation from structural distortions or defects. The single crystals show extremely high residual resistivity (RRR) values of 25,000 with a very low residual resistivity of 3 nano-ohm cm, and an enormous, highly anisotropic, magnetoresistance that exceeds 200 million percent at 63 T and 0.5 K. These properties are likely a consequence of the novel fermions expressed in this compound. ; Comment: 5 figures