Ilya Belopolski

Invited Talks

Dept. of Physics, Technische Universität München, München (July 2025)

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar, Harvard University, Boston (July 2025) 

Dept. of Physics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa (July 2025)

 Dept. of Physics, National University of Singapore, Singapore (June 2025)

Dept. of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong (May 2025)

Symposium of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (Max Planck Society), Berlin (March 2025)

Seminar, Max-Planck-Institut für Struktur und Dynamik der Materie, Hamburg (October 2024)

Seminar, Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Physik fester Stoffe, Dresden (October 2024)

Seminar, Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart (October 2024)

Conference of Condensed Matter Physics, Liyang, Jiangsu (August 2024)

Publications

for an updated & complete list, see Google Scholar or arXiv

Ilya Belopolski et al. Synthesis of a semimetallic Weyl ferromagnet with point Fermi surface. Nature 637, 1078 (2025). Article, Research Briefing, Research Highlight, RIKEN Research Spring 2025 [First 'true' Weyl semimetal—both experiment and theory!]

Max T. Birch, Ilya Belopolski et al. Dynamic transition and Galilean relativity of current- driven skyrmions. Nature 633, 554 (2024). Article, News & Views, RIKEN Research Highlight

Tyler A. Cochran*, Ilya Belopolski* et al. Visualizing Higher-Fold Topology in Chiral Crystals. Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 066402 (2023). Article

Daniel S. Sanchez*, Tyler A. Cochran*, Ilya Belopolski et al. Tunable topologically driven Fermi arc van Hove singularities. Nat. Phys. 19, 682 (2023). Article

Ilya Belopolski et al. Observation of a linked-loop quantum state in a topological magnet. Nature 604, 647 (2022). Article, Princeton News, PhysicsWorld

Ilya Belopolski et al. Signatures of Weyl fermion annihilation in a correlated kagome magnet. Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 256403 (2021). Article

M. Zahid Hasan, Guoqing Chang, Ilya Belopolski et al. Weyl, Dirac and high-fold chiral fermions in topological quantum matter. Nat. Rev. Mat. 6, 784 (2021). Article, Collection: 15 years of topological matter

Daniel S. Sanchez*, Guoqing Chang*, Ilya Belopolski* et al. Observation of Weyl fermions in a magnetic non-centrosymmetric crystal. Nat. Commun. 11, 3356 (2020). Article

Ilya Belopolski et al. Discovery of topological Weyl fermion lines and drumhead surface states in a room temperature magnet. Science 365, 1278 (2019). Article, Physics Today, Princeton Discovery (with video!)

Daniel S. Sanchez*, Ilya Belopolski* et al. Topological chiral crystals with helicoid-arc quantum states. Nature 567, 500 (2019). 

Ilya Belopolski et al. A novel condensed matter lattice and a new platform for one-dimensional topological phases. Sci. Adv. 3, e1501692 (2017).

Ilya Belopolski et al. Discovery of a new type of topological Weyl fermion semimetal state in Mo(x)W(1-x)Te(2). Nat. Commun. 7, 13643 (2016).

Ilya Belopolski et al. Signatures of a time-reversal symmetric Weyl semimetal with only four Weyl points. Nat. Commun. 8, 942 (2017).

M. Zahid Hasan, Su-Yang Xu, Ilya Belopolski and Shin-Ming Huang. Discovery of Weyl Fermion Semimetals and Topological Fermi Arc States. Ann. Rev. Cond. Mat. Phys. 8, 289 (2017).

Ilya Belopolski et al. Criteria for directly detecting topological Fermi arcs in Weyl semimetals. Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 066802 (2016).

Su-Yang Xu*, Ilya Belopolski* et al. Discovery of a Weyl Fermion Semimetal and Topological Fermi Arcs. Science 349, 6248 (2015). [First Weyl semimetal: experiment]

Shin-Ming Huang, Su-Yang Xu, Ilya Belopolski et al. A Weyl Fermion semimetal with surface Fermi arcs in the transition metal monopnictide TaAs class. Nat. Commun. 6, 7373 (2015). [First Weyl semimetal: prediction]

Awards & Recognition

Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

William E. and Diane M. Spicer Young Investigator Award, SLAC, 2021 (link)

for his seminal contributions in innovatively utilizing synchrotron light and ARPES technology leading to the discovery and understanding of Weyl semimetals and Weyl magnets and a wider range of topological material and quantum phenomena

American Physical Society (APS) Richard L. Greene Dissertation Award, 2021 (link)

for the discovery of the first three-dimensional topological magnet and of several novel Weyl semimetals from ARPES experiments

Special Postdoctoral Researcher (SPDR) Program, RIKEN, 2019

Kusaka Memorial Prize in Physics, Department of Physics, Princeton University, 2017

Harold W. Dodds Honorific Fellowship, Princeton Graduate School, 2016