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arXiv 1706.05500cond-mat.mtrl-sciphysics.class-phphysics.optics
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节链的实验发现

Experimental discovery of nodal chains

Qinghui Yan, Rongjuan Liu, Zhongbo Yan, Boyuan Liu, Hongsheng Chen, Zhong Wang, Ling Lu

摘要:

三维(3D)拓扑节点,如Weyl和Dirac节点,吸引了广泛的兴趣,跨多个学科和不同的材料系统。与包含很少结构变化的节点不同,节线在动量空间中可以有许多拓扑配置,形成节环,节链和潜在的节链和节结。然而,由于缺乏理想的物质平台,节点线路的发展受到很大限制。例如,在凝聚态物质中,节线通常对自旋轨道耦合很脆弱,位于费米能级之外,与能量简并的平凡带共存,并且在线简并的能量中强烈分散。在这里,克服所有上述困难,我们在理论上预测和实验上观察节链的金属网格光子晶体具有频率隔离的线性带接触环链在整个布里渊区(BZ)。这些节链受到镜像对称性的保护,并且具有小于1%的频率变化。我们使用角分辨透射(ART)来探测投影的体色散,并进行傅立叶变换场扫描(FTFS)来绘制表面色散,这是两个鼓膜表面带之间的二次接触。我们的研究结果建立了一个理想的拓扑线退化与非平凡的连通性,以及随之而来的波动动力学比二维狄拉克和三维Weyl材料的进一步研究的线材料。

英文摘要:

Three-dimensional (3D) topological nodal points, such as Weyl and Dirac nodes have attracted wide-spread interest across multiple disciplines and diverse material systems. Unlike nodal points that contain little structural variations, nodal lines can have numerous topological configurations in the momentum space, forming nodal rings, nodal chains and potentially nodal links and nodal knots. However, nodal lines have much less development for the lack of ideal material platforms. In condensed matter for example, nodal lines are often fragile to spin-orbit-coupling, locating off the Fermi level, coexisting with energy-degenerate trivial bands and dispersing strongly in energy of the line degeneracy. Here, overcoming all above difficulties, we theoretically predict and experimentally observe nodal chains in a metallic-mesh photonic crystal having frequency-isolated linear bandtouching rings chained across the entire Brillouin zone (BZ). These nodal chains are protected by mirror symmetries and have a frequency variation less than 1%. We used angle-resolved transmission (ART) to probe the projected bulk dispersions and performed Fourier-transformed field scan (FTFS) to map out the surface dispersions, which is a quadratic touching between two drumhead surface bands. Our results established an ideal nodal-line material for further studies of topological line-degeneracies with nontrivial connectivities, as well as the consequent wave dynamics richer than 2D Dirac and 3D Weyl materials.

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