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The discovery of topological semimetals with multifold band crossings has opened up a new and exciting frontier in the field of topological physics. These materials exhibit large Chern numbers, leading to long double Fermi arcs on their…

The search for symmetry-protected 2D Dirac semimetals analogous to graphene is important both for fundamental and practical interest. The 2D Dirac cones are protected by crystalline symmetries and magnetic ordering may destroy their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-23 Jing Wang

Semi-metals are characterized by nodal band structures that give rise to exotic electronic properties. The stability of Dirac semi-metals, such as graphene in two spatial dimensions (2D), requires the presence of lattice symmetries, while…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-15 Robert-Jan Slager , Vladimir Juricic , Ville Lahtinen , Jan Zaanen

The distinct over-tilting of band crossings in topological semimetal generates the type-I and typeII classification of Dirac/Weyl and nodal-line fermions, accompanied by the exotic electronic and magnetic transport properties. In this work,…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-10 Hongbo Wu , Da-Shuai Ma , Botao Fu

In a topological semimetal with Dirac or Weyl points, the bulk edge correspondence principle predicts a gapless edge mode if the essential symmetry is still preserved at the surface. The detection of such topological surface state has been…

Spin-gapless semimetals (SGSMs), which generate 100\% spin polarization, are viewed as promising semi-half-metals in spintronics with high speed and low consumption. We propose and characterize a new $\mathbb{Z_{\mathrm{2}}}$ class of…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-14 Run-Wu Zhang , Zeying Zhang , Cheng-Cheng Liu , Yugui Yao

In this work, we introduce a new type of topological order which is protected by subsystem symmetries which act on lower dimensional subsets of lattice many-body system, e.g. along lines or planes in a three dimensional system. The symmetry…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-18 Yizhi You , Trithep Devakul , F. J. Burnell , S. L. Sondhi

Triply degenerate band crossing can generate novel triply degenerate nodal point (TDNP) fermions. For the TDNP character to the best manifest in physical properties, it desires that the TDNPs are near the Fermi level, far away with each…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-02-27 Lei Jin , Xiaoming Zhang , Xuefang Dai , Heyan Liu , Guifeng Chen , Guodong Liu

Nodal line semimetals are characterized by symmetry-protected band crossing lines and are expected to exhibit nontrivial electronic properties. Connections of the multiple nodal lines, resulting in nodal nets, chains, or links, are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Ding-Fu Shao , Shu-Hui Zhang , Xiaoqian Dang , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

The existence of two novel hybrid two-dimensional (2D) monolayers, 2D B3C2P3 and 2D B2C4P2, has been predicted based on the density functional theory calculations. It has been shown that these materials possess structural and thermodynamic…

Unconventional superconducting states of matter are realized in the presence of strong spin orbit coupling. In particular, non degenerate bands can support odd parity superconductivity with rich topological content. Here we study whether…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-16 Huazhou Wei , Sung-Po Chao , Vivek Aji

Recently, the concept of topological insulators has been generalized to topological semimetals, including three-dimensional (3D) Weyl semimetals, 3D Dirac semimetals, and 3D node-line semimetals. In particular, several compounds (e.g.,…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-06-07 J. L. Lu , W. Luo , X. Y. Li , S. Q. Yang , J. X. Cao , X. G. Gong , H. J. Xiang

Symmetry is one of the cornerstones of modern physics and has profound implications in different areas. In symmetry-protected topological systems, symmetries are responsible for protecting surface states, which are at the heart of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-10 E. Slootman , W. Cherifi , L. Eek , R. Arouca , E. J. Bergholtz , M. Bourennane , C. Morais Smith

Magnetic topological semimetals (TSMs) are topological quantum materials with broken time-reversal symmetry (TRS) and isolated nodal points or lines near the Fermi level. Their topological properties would typically reveal from the…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-10-08 Jinyu Zou , Zhuoran He , Gang Xu

Dirac semimetal (DSM) hosts four-fold degenerate isolated band-crossing points with linear dispersion, around which the quasiparticles resemble the relativistic Dirac Fermions. It can be described by a 4 * 4 massless Dirac Hamiltonian which…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-06 Cong Chen , Zefeng Su , Xiaoming Zhang , Ziyu Chen , Xian-Lei Sheng

The search for topological insulators has been actively promoted in the field of condensed matter physics for further development in energy-efficient information transmission and processing. In this context, recent studies have revealed…

Electrical control of spin polarization is very desirable in spintronics, since electric field can be easily applied locally in contrast with magnetic field. Here, we propose a new concept of bipolar magnetic semiconductor (BMS) in which…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-08-08 Xingxing Li , Xiaojun Wu , Zhenyu Li , Jinlong Yang , J. G. Hou

We show that compounds in a family that possess time-reversal symmetry and share a non-centrosymmetric cubic structure with the space group F-43m (No. 216) host robust ideal Weyl semi-metal fermions with desirable topologically protected…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-13 R. Wang , J. Z. Zhao , Y. J. Jin , W. P. Xu , L. -Y. Gan , X. Z. Wu , H. Xu , S. Y. Tong

Different types of superfluid ground states have been investigated in systems of two species of fermions with Fermi surfaces that do not match. This study is relevant for cold atomic systems, condensed matter physics and quark matter. In…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-09-21 Mucio A. Continentino , Igor T. Padilha

We propose a new concept of two-dimensional (2D) Dirac semiconductor which is characterized by the emergence of fourfold degenerate band crossings near the band edge and provide a generic approach to realize this novel semiconductor in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-02 Botao Fu , Chao He , Da-Shuai Ma , Zhi-Ming Yu , Yong-Hong Zhao , Yugui Yao