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Dirac Dispersions and Fermi Surface Nesting in LaCuSb$_{2}$

Materials Science 2025-03-06 v2 Superconductivity

Abstract

LaCuSb2_{2} is a superconductor with a transition temperature of about Tc=0.9T_\text{c} = 0.9K and is a potential platform where Dirac fermions can be experimentally observed. In this paper, we report systematic high-resolution studies of its electronic structure using the angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) technique supported by the DFT calculation. The Fermi surface consists of four branches, of which the two inner ones are more 3-dimensional and the theoretical calculations reproduce well the experiment. We observe several linear dispersions forming Dirac-like structures. The nodal lines are present in the system along M{\text{M}}-A{\text{A}} and X{\text{X}}-R{\text{R}} and Dirac crossings along X{\text{X}}-R{\text{R}} are observed by ARPES. Finally, the nesting between external Fermi surface pockets, which corresponds to charge density wave (CDW) modulation vector is enhanced in LaCuSb2_{2} as compared to LaAgSb2_{2}, while CDW appears in the latter system.

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@article{arxiv.2403.17737,
  title  = {Dirac Dispersions and Fermi Surface Nesting in LaCuSb$_{2}$},
  author = {Marcin Rosmus and Natalia Olszowska and Zbigniew Bukowski and Przemysław Piekarz and Andrzej Ptok and Paweł Starowicz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.17737},
  year   = {2025}
}
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