Hourglass Dirac chain metal in rhenium dioxide.
Hourglass Dirac chain metal in rhenium dioxide.
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DOI:
10.1038/s41467-017-01986-3
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发表时间:
2017-11-29
影响因子:
16.6
通讯作者:
Yang SA
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作者:
Wang SS;Liu Y;Yu ZM;Sheng XL;Yang SA
Nonsymmorphic symmetries, which involve fractional lattice translations, can generate exotic types of fermionic excitations in crystalline materials. Here we propose a topological phase arising from nonsymmorphic symmetries—the hourglass Dirac chain metal, and predict its realization in the rhenium dioxide. We show that ReO2 features hourglass-type dispersion in the bulk electronic structure dictated by its nonsymmorphic space group. Due to time reversal and inversion symmetries, each band has an additional two-fold degeneracy, making the neck crossing-point of the hourglass four-fold degenerate. Remarkably, close to the Fermi level, the neck crossing-point traces out a Dirac chain—a chain of connected four-fold-degenerate Dirac loops—in the momentum space. The symmetry protection, the transformation under symmetry-breaking, and the associated topological surface states of the Dirac chain are revealed. Our results open the door to an unknown class of topological matters, and provide a platform to explore their intriguing physics. Exotic topological particles are reported to arise from special types of symmetry protection. Here, Wang et al. predict an hourglass Dirac chain metal protected by nonsymmorphic symmetries and its possible realization in ReO2.
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