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An antiferromagnetic semimetal has been recently identified as a new member of topological semimetals that may host three-dimensional symmetry-protected Dirac fermions. A reorientation of the N\'{e}el vector may break the underlying…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-19 Youngseok Kim , Kisung Kang , André Schleife , Matthew J. Gilbert

Relativistic Dirac fermions are ubiquitous in condensed matter physics. Their mass is proportional to the material energy gap and the ability to control and tune the mass has become an essential tool to engineer quantum phenomena that mimic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-13 G. Krizman , B. A. Assaf , T. Phuphachong , G. Bauer , G. Springholz , G. Bastard , R. Ferreira , L. A. de Vaulchier , Y. Guldner

Holographic quantum matter exploits the AdS/CFT correspondence to study systems in condensed matter physics. An example of these systems are strongly correlated semimetals, which feature a rich phase diagram structure. In this work, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-04 Sebastián Bahamondes , Ignacio Salazar Landea , Rodrigo Soto-Garrido

Gapless Dirac surface states are protected at the interface of topological and normal band insulators. In a binary superlattice bearing such interfaces, we establish that valley-dependent dimerization of symmetry-unrelated Dirac surface…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-10-31 Xiao Li , Fan Zhang , Qian Niu , Ji Feng

The notion of topological phases has been extended to higher-order and has been generalized to different dimensions. As a paradigm, Cd3As2 is predicted to be a higher-order topological semimetal, possessing three-dimensional (3D) bulk Dirac…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-21 Cai-Zhen Li , An-Qi Wang , Chuan Li , Wen-Zhuang Zheng , Alexander Brinkman , Da-Peng Yu , Zhi-Min Liao

Topological insulators embody a newly discovered state of matter characterized by conducting spin-momentum locked surface states that span the bulk band gap. So far, most of the study on topological insulator surfaces has been limited to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-04 L. A. Wray , Y. Xia , S. -Y. Xu , Y. S. Hor , R. J. Cava , A. Bansil , H. Lin , M. Z. Hasan

The anomalous surface states of symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases are usually thought to be only possible in conjunction with the higher dimensional topological bulk. However, it has recently been realized that a class of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-29 Andrew C. Potter , Chong Wang , Max A. Metlitski , Ashvin Vishwanath

Topological Dirac semimetals (TDSs) exhibit bulk Dirac cones protected by time reversal and crystal symmetry, as well as surface states originating from non-trivial topology. While there is a manifold possible onset of superconducting order…

We propose a 3D topolectrical (TE) network that can be tuned to realize various higher-order topological gapless and chiral phases. We first study a higher-order Dirac semimetal phase that exhibits a hinge-like Fermi arc linking the Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 S. M. Rafi-Ul-Islam , Zhuo Bin Siu , Haydar Sahin , Mansoor B. A. Jalil

Three-dimensional topological semimetals host a range of interesting quantum phenomena related to band crossing that give rise to Dirac or Weyl fermions, and can be potentially engineered into novel quantum devices. Harvesting the full…

The coupled-wires approach has been shown to be useful in describing two-dimensional strongly interacting topological phases. In this manuscript we extend this approach to three-dimensions, and construct a model for a fractional strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-25 Eran Sagi , Yuval Oreg

We investigate Dirac fermions in the antifferomagnetic metallic state of iron-based superconduc- tors. Deriving an effective Hamiltonian for Dirac fermions, we reveal that there exist two Dirac cones carrying the same chirality, contrary to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-07-19 Takao Morinari , Eiji Kaneshita , Takami Tohyama

We study the vortex bound states in three dimensional (3D) superconducting Dirac semimetals with time reversal symmetry. Assuming two Dirac points on the kz-axis and bulk s-wave superconductivity, with a quantum vortex line parallel to the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-07-12 Shengshan Qin , Lunhui Hu , Congcong Le , Jinfeng Zeng , Fu-chun Zhang , Chen Fang , Jiangping Hu

Topological quantum matter and spintronics research have been developed to a large extent independently. In this Review we discuss a new role that the antiferromagnetic order has taken in combining topological matter and spintronics. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-06 L. Šmejkal , T. Jungwirth , J. Sinova

We discuss the possibility of realizing Weyl semimetal phase in the magnetically doped topological band insulators. When the magnetic moments are ferromagnetically polarized, we show that there are three phases in the system upon the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-06-12 Gil Young Cho

In most Dirac semimetals, time-reversal and inversion symmetries are believed to play a crucial role in their stability. We demonstrate that these symmetries are broken in Dirac fermions in the organic conductor $\alpha$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$I$_3$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-26 Takao Morinari

We study the properties of the surface states in three-dimensional topological insulators in the presence of a ferromagnetic exchange field. We demonstrate that for layered materials like Bi$_2$Se$_3$ the surface states on the top surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-21 Tomi Paananen , Henning Gerber , Matthias Götte , Thomas Dahm

We construct a bosonic analog of a two-dimensional topological Dirac Semi-Metal (DSM). The low-energy description of the most basic 2D DSM model consists of two Dirac cones at positions $\pm\mathbf{k}_0$ in momentum space. The local…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-14 Matthew F. Lapa , Gil Young Cho , Taylor L. Hughes

Bismuth selenide (Bi2Se3) is a prototypical three-dimensional topological insulator whose Dirac surface states have been extensively studied theoretically and experimentally. Surprisingly little, however, is known about the energetics and…

Three-dimensional (3D) topological semimetals represent a new class of topological matters. The study of this family of materials has been at the frontiers of condensed matter physics, and many breakthroughs have been made. Several…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-10-03 Jin Hu , Su-Yang Xu , Ni Ni , Zhiqiang Mao