We study electronic properties of a new planar carbon crystal formed through networking biphenylene molecules. Novel electronic features among carbon materials such as zone-center saddle point and peculiar type-II Dirac fermionic states are shown to exist in the low energy electronic spectrum. The type-II state here has a nearly flat branch and is close to a transition to type-I. Possible magnetic instabilities related with low energy bands are discussed. Furthermore, with a moderate uniaxial strain, a pair of Dirac points merge with the zone center saddle point, realizing concurrent Lifshitz transitions of van Hove singularity as well as pair annihilation of the Dirac fermions. A new effective Hamiltonian encompassing all distinctive low energy states is constructed, revealing a finite winding number of the pseudo-spin texture around the Dirac point, quantized Zak phases, and topological grain boundary states.
@article{arxiv.2201.09456,
title = {Magnetic Ordering, Anomalous Lifshitz Transition and Topological Grain Boundaries in Two-Dimensional Biphenylene Network},
author = {Young-Woo Son and Hosub Jin and Sejoong Kim},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.09456},
year = {2022}
}