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The recent discovery of triply degenerate points (TDPs) in topological materials has opened a new perspective toward the realization of novel quasiparticles without counterparts in quantum field theory. The emergence of such protected nodes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-19 Haiping Hu , Junpeng Hou , Fan Zhang , Chuanwei Zhang

Most electronic properties of metals are determined solely by the low-energy states around the Fermi level, and for topological metals/semimetals, these low-energy states become distinct because of their unusual energy dispersion and…

We perform a complete classification of two-band $\bk\cdot\mathbf{p}$ theories at band crossing points in 3D semimetals with $n$-fold rotation symmetry and broken time-reversal symmetry. Using this classification, we show the existence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-15 Chen Fang , Matthew J. Gilbert , Xi Dai , B. Andrei Bernevig

We show that sharply defined topological quantum phase transitions are not limited to states of matter with gapped electronic spectra. Such transitions may also occur between two gapless metallic states both with extended Fermi surfaces.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Xuzhe Ying , Alex Kamenev

The existence of three fold rotational, mirror and time reversal symmetries often give rise to the triply degenerate nodal point (TP) in the band structure of a material. Based on point group symmetry analysis and first principle electronic…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-01-30 C. K. Barman , Chiranjit Mondal , Biswarup Pathak , Aftab Alam

Condensed matter systems can host quasiparticle excitations that are analogues to elementary particles such as Majorana, Weyl, and Dirac fermions. Recent advances in band theory have expanded the classification of fermions in crystals, and…

Topological semimetals and metals have emerged as a new frontier in the field of quantum materials. Novel macroscopic quantum phenomena they exhibit are not only of fundamental interest, but may hold some potential for technological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 A. A. Burkov

Recent developments in topological semimetals open a way to realize relativistic dispersions in condensed matter systems. One recently studied type of topological feature is the "triple nodal point" where three bands become degenerate. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-17 Jinwoong Kim , Heung-Sik Kim , David Vanderbilt

We review the recent, mainly theoretical, progress in the study of topological nodal line semimetals in three dimensions. In these semimetals, the conduction and the valence bands cross each other along a one-dimensional curve in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-10 Chen Fang , Hongming Weng , Xi Dai , Zhong Fang

In band theory of solids, degeneracies manifest themselves as point, line, and surface objects. The topological nature of band degeneracies has recently been appreciated since the recognition of gapless topological quantum phases of matter.…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-21 Hyungjun Lee , Oleg V. Yazyev

As a new type of fermions without counterpart in high energy physics, triply degenerate fermions show exotic physical properties, which are represented by triply degenerate nodal points in topological semimetals. Here, based on the space…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-01 Peng-Jie Guo , Huan-Cheng Yang , Kai Liu , Zhong-Yi Lu

Optical lattices play a versatile role in advancing our understanding of correlated quantum matter. The recent implementation of orbital degrees of freedom in chequerboard and hexagonal optical lattices opens up a new thrust towards…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-08-16 Kai Sun , W. Vincent Liu , Andreas Hemmerich , S. Das Sarma

Topological metals with protected band-crossing points have been attracting great interest. Here we report novel topological band features in a family of metal diboride materials. Using first- principles calculations, we show that these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-14 Xiaoming Zhang , Zhi-Ming Yu , Xian-Lei Sheng , Hui Ying Yang , Shengyuan A. Yang

Topological semimetals are a class of novel three-dimensional (3D) electronic phases that feature topologically protected conical band-touchings at the Fermi level. These band-touching points are monopoles of Berry curvature in momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-23 J. P. Santos Pires

Coexistence of topological elements in a topological metal/semimetal (TM) has gradually attracted attentions. However, the non-topological factors always mess up the Fermi surface and cover interesting topological properties. Here, we find…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Jin Cai , Yuee Xie , Po-Yao Chang , Heung-Sik Kim , Yuanping Chen

We consider the behavior of classical and quantum oscillations in metals with complex Fermi surfaces near the directions of $\, {\bf B} \, $ corresponding to changes in the topological structure of the dynamical system describing the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-19 A. Ya. Maltsev

The Weyl semimetal phase is a recently discovered topological quantum state of matter characterized by the presence of topologically protected degeneracies near the Fermi level. These degeneracies are the source of exotic phenomena,…

Topological semimetals materialize a new state of quantum matter where massless fermions protected by a specific crystal symmetry host exotic quantum phenomena. Distinct from well-known Dirac and Weyl fermions, structurally-chiral…

The band theory of solids is arguably the most successful theory of condensed matter physics, providing the description of the electronic energy levels in a variety of materials. Electronic wavefunctions obtained from the band theory allow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-14 Tomáš Bzdušek , QuanSheng Wu , Andreas Rüegg , Manfred Sigrist , Alexey A. Soluyanov

Graphene is a two-dimensional Dirac semimetal showing interesting properties as a result of its dispersion relation with both quasiparticles and quasiholes or matter and anti-matter. We introduce a topological nodal ring semimetal in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-03 Karyn Le Hur , Sariah Al Saati