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Topological semimetals exhibit protected band crossings in momentum space, accompanied by corresponding surface states. Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians introduce geometry-sensitive features that dissolve this bulk-boundary correspondence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Megan Schoenzeit , Chang Shu , Kai Zhang , Kai Sun

We introduce the notion of a band-inverted, topological semimetal in two-dimensional nonsymmorphic crystals. This notion is materialized in the monolayers of MTe$_2$ (M $=$ W, Mo) if spin-orbit coupling is neglected. We characterize the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Lukas Muechler , Aris Alexandradinata , Titus Neupert , Roberto Car

Topological semimetals with symmetry-protected band crossings have emerged as a rich landscape to explore intriguing electronic phenomena. Nonsymmorphic symmetries in particular have been shown to play an important role in protecting the…

Square-root higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) are recently discovered new topological phases, with intriguing topological properties inherited from a parent lattice Hamiltonian. Different from conventional HOTIs, the square-root…

The notion of Dirac cones, wherein two or more bands become degenerate at a certain momentum, is the starting point for the study of topological phases. Dirac cones have been thoroughly explored in fermionic systems such as graphene, Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 P. Sathish Kumar , R. Ganesh

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 review recent theoretical progress in the understanding and prediction of novel topological semimetals. Topological semimetals define a class of gapless electronic phases exhibiting topologically stable crossings of energy bands.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Heng Gao , Jörn W. F. Venderbos , Youngkuk Kim , Andrew M. Rappe

Featuring exotic quantum transport and surface states, topological semimetals can be classified into nodal-point, nodal-line, and nodal-surface semimetals according to the degeneracy and dimensionality of their nodes. However, a topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-18 Bing-Bing Luo , Ming-Jian Gao , Jun-Hong An

Weyl and Dirac (semi)metals in three dimensions have robust gapless electronic band structures. Their massless single-body energy spectra are protected by symmetries such as lattice translation, (screw) rotation and time reversal. In this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-06 Syed Raza , Alexander Sirota , Jeffrey C. Y. Teo

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

Topological Dirac semimetals are a class of semimetals that host symmetry-protected Dirac points near the Fermi level, which arise due to a band inversion of the conduction and valence bands. In this work, we study the less explored class…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-02 Heng Gao , Jeremy Strockoz , Mario Frakulla , Jörn W. F. Venderbos , Hongming Weng

Type-II semi-Dirac fermions in two dimensions have been proposed to describe topologically nontrivial low-energy excitations in titanium/vanadium oxide heterostructures. These quasiparticles appear at the merger of three Dirac cones,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-19 Mohamed M. Elsayed , Taras I. Lakoba , Valeri N. Kotov

We propose that CaP3 family of materials, which include CaP3, CaAs3, SrP3, SrAs3 and BaAs3 can host a three-dimensional topological nodal line semimetal states. Based on first-principle calculations and kp model analysis, we show that a…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-01-31 Qiunan Xu , Rui Yu , Zhong Fang , Xi Dai , Hongming Weng

Nodal-line semimetals with magnetic orders have been theoretically predicted and experimentally observed in only few compounds. We theoretically explore the electronic structure in bulk and boundary of such a magnetic nodal-line state by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Yasufumi Araki , Jin Watanabe , Kentaro Nomura

Using a systematic relation between topological gapless phases in three dimensions and topological gapped phases in two dimensions, we identify four types of higher-order topological semimetals or nodal superconductors (HOTS), hosting (i)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-07 Sophia Simon , Max Geier , Piet W. Brouwer

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

We find a mixed chirality $d$-wave superconducting state in the coexistence region between antiferromagnetism and interaction-driven superconductivity in lightly doped honeycomb materials. This state has a topological chiral $d+id$-wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-11-04 A. M. Black-Schaffer , K. Le Hur

Higher-order topological insulator (HOTI) represents a new phase of matter, the characterization of which goes beyond the conventional bulk-boundary correspondence and is attracting significant attention by the broad community. Using a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-17 Lingling Song , Huanhuan Yang , Yunshan Cao , Peng Yan

Recently, we have introduced in [A. M. Marques et al., Phys. Rev. B 103, 235425 (2021)] the concept of $2^n$-root topology and applied it to one-dimensional systems. These models require $n$ squaring operations to their Hamiltonians,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-14 A. M. Marques , R. G. Dias

States of matter with nontrivial topology have been classified by their bulk symmetry properties. However, by cutting the topological insulator into ribbons, the symmetry of the system is reduced. By constructing effective Hamiltonians…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 Augusto L. Araújo , Ernesto O. Wrasse , Gerson J. Ferreira , Tome M. Schmidt