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Topological nodal line semimetals, a novel quantum state of materials, possess topologically nontrivial valence and conduction bands that touch at a line near the Fermi level. The exotic band structure can lead to various novel properties,…

We report the electronic band structures and concomitant Fermi surfaces for a family of exfoliable tetradymite compounds with the formula $T_2$$Ch_2$$Pn$, obtained as a modification to the well-known topological insulator binaries…

In the presence of certain symmetries, three-dimensional Dirac semimetals can harbor not only surface Fermi arcs, but also surface Dirac cones. Motivated by the experimental observation of rotation-symmetry-protected Dirac semimetal states…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-01-17 Majid Kheirkhah , Zheng-Yang Zhuang , Joseph Maciejko , Zhongbo Yan

The topological nodal-line semimetal state, serving as a fertile ground for various topological quantum phases, where a topological insulator, Dirac semimetal, or Weyl semimetal can be realized when the certain protecting symmetry is…

Recently, a 2D orthorhombic silver-organic framework, Ag3C20 monolayer, was synthesized by assembling organic molecules linked with multiple aryl-metal bonds. Herein, via first-principles study, we demonstrate that owing to the unique…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-30 Zhiheng Ly , Ningning Jia , Jiangtao Cai , Jijun Zhao , Zhifeng Liu

Topological semimetals, including Dirac semimetals, Weyl semimetals, and nodal line semimetals, receive enormous research interest due to their intrinsic topological nature and fascinating properties. In present work, with the help of…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-17 P. Zhou , Z. S. Ma , L. Z. Sun

Motivated by the physics of spin-orbital liquids, we study a model of interacting Dirac fermions on a bilayer honeycomb lattice at half filling, featuring an explicit global SO(3)$\times$U(1) symmetry. Using large-scale auxiliary-field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-25 Zi Hong Liu , Matthias Vojta , Fakher F. Assaad , Lukas Janssen

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

Here, we present a study on the Fermi-surface of the Dirac type-II semi-metallic candidate NiTe$_2$ via the temperature and angular dependence of the de Haas-van Alphen (dHvA) effect measured in single-crystals grown through Te flux. In…

Young and Kane have given a great insight for 2D Dirac semimetals with nontrivial topology in the presence of nonsymmorphic crystalline symmetry. Based on one of 2D nonsymmorphic square lattice structures they proposed, we further construct…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-05-22 Pok-Man Chiu , Cheng-Yi Huang , Wan-Ju Li , Ting-Kuo Lee

Three-dimensional higher-order topological semimetals in crystalline systems exhibit higher-order Fermi arcs on one-dimensional hinges, challenging the conventional bulk-boundary correspondence. However, the existence of higher-order Fermi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Rui Chen , Bin Zhou , Dong-Hui Xu

Using high resolution spin- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, we map the electronic structure and spin texture of the surface states of the topological insulator Sb2Te3. In combination with density functional calculations…

Three-dimensional Dirac semimetals, a three-dimensional analogue of graphene, are unusual quantum materials with massless Dirac fermions, which can be further converted to Weyl fermions by breaking time reversal or inversion symmetry.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-24 Li-Xian Wang , Cai-Zhen Li , Da-Peng Yu , Zhi-Min Liao

We present CoTe2 as a new type-II Dirac semimetal supporting Lorentz symmetry violating Dirac fermions in the vicinity of the Fermi energy. By combining first principle ab-initio calculations with experimental angle-resolved photo-emission…

Dirac line node (DLN) semimetals are a class of topological semimetals that feature band-crossing lines in momentum space. We study the type-I and type-II classification of DLN semimetals by developing a criterion that determines the type…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-17 Dongwook Kim , Seongjin Ahn , Jong Hyun Jung , Hongki Min , Jisoon Ihm , Jung Hoon Han , Youngkuk Kim

Based on the first-principles calculations, we recover the silent topological nature of Cd3As2, a well known semiconductor with high carrier mobility. We find that it is a symmetry-protected topological semimetal with a single pair of…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-04-21 Zhijun Wang , Hongming Weng , Quansheng Wu , Xi Dai , Zhong Fang

We define and study a three dimensional lattice model which displays a Weyl semi-metallic phase. This model consists of coupled layers of quantum (anomalous) Hall insulators. The Weyl semi-metallic phase appears between a resulting quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-26 Pierre Delplace , Jian Li , David Carpentier

The close approach of the Fermi energy EF of a Dirac semimetal to the Dirac point ED uncovers new physics such as velocity renormalization,1,2,3 and the Dirac plasma 4,5 at |EF -ED| < kBT, where kBT is the thermal energy. In graphene,…

Topological metals and semimetals (TMs) have recently drawn significant interest. These materials give rise to condensed matter realizations of many important concepts in high-energy physics, leading to wide-ranging protected properties in…

We propose that the noncentrosymmetric LiGaGe-type hexagonal $ABC$ crystal SrHgPb realizes a new type of topological semimetal that hosts both Dirac and Weyl points in momentum space. The symmetry-protected Dirac points arise due to a band…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-12 Heng Gao , Youngkuk Kim , Jörn W. F. Venderbos , C. L. Kane , E. J. Mele , Andrew M. Rappe , Wei Ren