The family of transition metal dipnictides (TMDs) has been of theoretical and experimental interest because this family hosts topological states and extremely large magnetoresistance (MR). Recently, TaAs2, a member of this family, has been predicted to support a topological crystalline insulating state. Here, by using high resolution. Angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), we reveal both closed and open pockets in the metallic Fermi surface and linearly dispersive bands on the (201) surface, along with the presence of extreme MR observed from magneto-transport measurements. A comparison of the ARPES results with first-principles computations show that the linearly dispersive bands on the measured surface of TaAs2 are trivial bulk bands. The absence of symmetry-protected surface state on the (201) surface indicates its topologically dark nature. The presence of open Fermi surface features suggests that the open orbit fermiology could contribute to the extremely large MR of TaAs.
@article{arxiv.2311.09055,
title = {Electronic structure in a transition metal dipnictide TaAs2},
author = {Sabin Regmi and Cheng-Yi Huang and Mojammel A. Khan and Baokai Wang and Anup Pradhan Sakhya and M. Mofazzel Hosen and Jesse Thompson and Bahadur Singh and Jonathan D. Denlinger and Masahiro Ishigami and J. F. Mitchell and Dariusz Kaczorowski and Arun Bansil and Madhab Neupane},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.09055},
year = {2023}
}