Robust topological nodal lines in halide carbides

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (36) ◽  
pp. 20262-20268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anh Pham ◽  
Frank Klose ◽  
Sean Li

This study predicts the existence of a symmetry protected nodal line state in Y2C2I2 in both 2D and 3D.

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoting Zhou ◽  
Chuang-Han Hsu ◽  
Cheng-Yi Huang ◽  
Mikel Iraola ◽  
Juan L. Mañes ◽  
...  

AbstractMost topological insulators (TIs) discovered today in spinful systems can be transformed from topological semimetals (TSMs) with vanishing bulk gap via introducing the spin-orbit coupling (SOC), which manifests the intrinsic links between the gapped topological insulator phases and the gapless TSMs. Recently, we have discovered a family of TSMs in time-reversal invariant spinless systems, which host butterfly-like nodal-lines (NLs) consisting of a pair of identical concentric intersecting coplanar ellipses (CICE). In this Communication, we unveil the intrinsic link between this exotic class of nodal-line semimetals (NLSMs) and a $${{\mathbb{Z}}}_{4}$$ Z 4 = 2 topological crystalline insulator (TCI), by including substantial SOC. We demonstrate that in three space groups (i.e., Pbam (No.55), P4/mbm (No.127), and P42/mbc (No.135)), the TCI supports a fourfold Dirac fermion on the (001) surface protected by two glide symmetries, which originates from the intertwined drumhead surface states of the CICE NLs. The higher order topology is further demonstrated by the emergence of one-dimensional helical hinge states, indicating the discovery of a higher order topological insulator protected by a glide symmetry.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Liu ◽  
Xin-Meng Wu

Abstract We study an improved holographic model for the strongly coupled nodal line semimetal which satisfies the duality relation between the rank two tensor operators $$ \overline{\psi}{\gamma}^{\mu v}\psi $$ ψ ¯ γ μv ψ and $$ \overline{\psi}{\gamma}^{\mu v}{\gamma}^5\psi $$ ψ ¯ γ μv γ 5 ψ . We introduce a Chern-Simons term and a mass term in the bulk for a complex two form field which is dual to the above tensor operators and the duality relation is automatically satisfied from holography. We find that there exists a quantum phase transition from a topological nodal line semimetal phase to a trivial phase. In the topological phase, there exist multiple nodal lines in the fermionic spectrum which are topologically nontrivial. The bulk geometries are different from the previous model without the duality constraint, while the resulting properties are qualitatively similar to those in that model. This improved model provides a more natural ground to analyze transports or other properties of strongly coupled nodal line semimetals.


2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (24) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Yang ◽  
Chen Fang ◽  
Zheng-Xin Liu

Author(s):  
Yubo Dong ◽  
Daniel P. Hess

Abstract Placement and orientation of fasteners in assemblies is generally based on convenience or static load and strength considerations. Vibration and other dynamic loads can result in loosening of threaded product, particularly when cyclic shear stresses are present. This paper investigates the placement of a bolt and nut on a compound cantilever beam subjected to dynamic inertial loading. Calculations for an inertial loaded, cantilever, Euler-Bernoulli beam show that the dynamic shear stress is maximum near the dynamic nodal lines, and essentially vanishes near the anti-nodes. Experiments with a compound cantilever beam assembly with one fastener reveal that loosening occurs more readily when the bolt and nut are placed near a nodal line. Data presented include time to loosen, break-away torque, and acceleration level. The data shows that fastener integrity is maintained for longer periods of time and with lower tightening torques, when the bolt and nut are positioned away from nodal lines where shear stresses are lower, even though acceleration levels are higher.


2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. eaau6459 ◽  
Author(s):  
B.-B. Fu ◽  
C.-J. Yi ◽  
T.-T. Zhang ◽  
M. Caputo ◽  
J.-Z. Ma ◽  
...  

Topological semimetals are characterized by symmetry-protected band crossings, which can be preserved in different dimensions in momentum space, forming zero-dimensional nodal points, one-dimensional nodal lines, or even two-dimensional nodal surfaces. Materials harboring nodal points and nodal lines have been experimentally verified, whereas experimental evidence of nodal surfaces is still lacking. Here, using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), we reveal the coexistence of Dirac nodal surfaces and nodal lines in the bulk electronic structures of ZrSiS. As compared with previous ARPES studies on ZrSiS, we obtained pure bulk states, which enable us to extract unambiguously intrinsic information of the bulk nodal surfaces and nodal lines. Our results show that the nodal lines are the only feature near the Fermi level and constitute the whole Fermi surfaces. We not only prove that the low-energy quasiparticles in ZrSiS are contributed entirely by Dirac fermions but also experimentally realize the nodal surface in topological semimetals.


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Gentile ◽  
Vittorio Benvenuto ◽  
Carmine Ortix ◽  
Canio Noce ◽  
Mario Cuoco

In this paper, we study an atomic chain in the presence of modulated charge potential and modulated Rashba spin-orbit coupling (RSOC) of equal periods. We show that for commensurate periodicities, λ = 4 n with integer n, the three-dimensional synthetic space obtained by sliding the two phases of the charge potential and RSOC features a topological nodal-line semimetal protected by an anti-unitary particle-hole symmetry. The location and shape of the nodal lines strongly depend on the relative amplitude between the charge potential and RSOC.


Materials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (17) ◽  
pp. 3841
Author(s):  
Yang Li ◽  
Jihong Xia ◽  
Rabah Khenata ◽  
Minquan Kuang

The presence of one-dimensional (1D) nodal lines, which are formed by band crossing points along a line in the momentum space of materials, is accompanied by several interesting features. However, in order to facilitate experimental detection of the band crossing point signatures, the materials must possess a large linear energy range around the band crossing points. In this work, we focused on a topological metal, YB2, with phase stability and a P6/mmm space group, and studied the phonon dispersion, electronic structure, and topological nodal line signatures via first principles. The computed results show that YB2 is a metallic material with one pair of closed nodal lines in the kz = 0 plane. Importantly, around the band crossing points, a large linear energy range in excess of 2 eV was observed, which was rarely reported in previous reports that focus on linear-crossing materials. Furthermore, YB2 has the following advantages: (1) An absence of a virtual frequency for phonon dispersion, (2) an obvious nontrivial surface state around the band crossing point, and (3) small spin–orbit coupling-induced gaps for the band crossing points.


2020 ◽  
Vol 102 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shirin Mozaffari ◽  
Niraj Aryal ◽  
Rico Schönemann ◽  
Kuan-Wen Chen ◽  
Wenkai Zheng ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 1206-1214 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Zhou ◽  
Z. S. Ma ◽  
L. Z. Sun

The detection of open and closed type nodal lines in the bilayer topological semimetal B2C on the substrate of Cu(110).


2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (39) ◽  
pp. 22399-22407
Author(s):  
Weizhen Meng ◽  
Ying Liu ◽  
Xiaoming Zhang ◽  
Xuefang Dai ◽  
Guodong Liu

Nonsymmorphic symmetry has been proved to protect band crossings in topological semimetals/metals.


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