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通过光学电导率观察准晶体中的三维狄拉克费米子

Three-dimensional Dirac fermions in quasicrystals as seen via optical conductivity

T. Timusk, J. P. Carbotte, C. C. Homes, D. N. Basov, S. G. Sharapov

摘要:

准晶的光学传导性具有两个在普通金属系统中看不到的特征。没有德鲁德峰,带间电导率在很宽的频率范围内从很低的值线性上升到正常的金属水平。Drude峰的情况下已被归因于在费米表面的赝隙,但尚未发现的线性行为的详细解释,在这里,我们表明,线性电导率,这似乎是普遍的,在所有铝基二十面体准晶家庭,以及他们的周期近似,从一个简单的模型,假设整个费米表面是有间隙的,除了在有限的一组狄拉克点。没有证据表明在任何材料中存在半导体间隙,这表明狄拉克光谱是无质量的,受到导致外尔半金属的拓扑结构的保护。该模型给出了一个线性电导率只有一个参数,费米速度。这张照片表明,十次对称准晶应该像石墨烯一样,具有与频率无关的电导率,没有德鲁德峰。这与实验数据也是一致的。

英文摘要:

The optical conductivity of quasicrystals is characterized by two features not seen in ordinary metallic systems. There is an absence of the Drude peak and the interband conductivity rises linearly from a very low value up to normal metallic levels over a wide range of frequencies. The absence of a Drude peak has been attributed to a pseudogap at the Fermi surface but a detailed explanation of the linear behavior has not been found. Here we show that the linear conductivity, which seems to be universal in all Al based icosahedral quasicrystal families, as well as their periodic approximants, follows from a simple model that assumes that the entire Fermi surface is gapped except at a finite set of Dirac points. There is no evidence of a semiconducting gap in any of the materials suggesting that the Dirac spectrum is massless, protected by topology leading to a Weyl semimetal. This model gives rise to a linear conductivity with only one parameter, the Fermi velocity. This picture suggests that decagonal quasicrystals should, like graphene, have a frequency independent conductivity, without a Drude peak. This is in accord with the experimental data as well.

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