Inherited Weak Topological Insulator Signatures in Topological Hourglass Semimetal Nb3XTe6 (X = Si, Ge)

Exhaustive List of Topological Hourglass Band Crossings in 230 Space Groups

Topological semimetals with band crossings (BCs) near the Fermi level have attracted intense research activities in the past several years. Among various BCs, those enforced by an hourglass-like connectivity pattern, which are just located at the vertex in the neck of an hourglass and thus called hourglass BCs (HBCs), show interesting topological properties and are intimately related with the space group symmetry. Through checking compatibility relations in the Brillouin zone (BZ), we list all possible HBCs for all 230 space groups by identifying positions of HBCs as well as the compatibility …

铁磁中心对称半金属FeIn₂S₄中的拓扑节线链与横向输运

Topological Nodal Chains and Transverse Transports in Ferromagnetic Centrosymmetric Semimetal FeIn2S4

该研究从理论上揭示铁磁中心对称半金属FeIn₂S₄是受非简单对称性保护的节线链半金属，其节线链抗自旋轨道耦合，兼具鼓面表面态与闭合费米弧，且节线环贡献大的反常霍尔与能斯特电导率，为磁性拓扑态与横向输运研究提供平台。

Nonsymmorphic Symmetry Protected Dirac, Möbius, and Hourglass Fermions in Topological Materials

A lattice symmetry, if being nonsymmorphic, is defined by combining a point group symmetry with a fractional lattice translation that cannot be removed by changing the lattice origin. Nonsymmorphic symmetry has a substantial influence on both the connectivity and topological properties of electronic band structures in solid-state quantum materials. In this article, we review how nonsymmorphic crystalline symmetries can drive and further protect the emergence of exotic fermionic quasiparticles, including Dirac, Möbius and hourglass fermions, that manifest as the defining energy band signatures …

KZnBi中的拓扑非简单空间群绝缘体与狄拉克半金属

Topological nonsymmorphic insulator versus Dirac semimetal in KZnBi

本文通过多种密度泛函计算揭示KZnBi中交换关联泛函强度决定其拓扑态，证明强XC效应是实现狄拉克半金属态的关键。

Nonsymmorphic-symmetry-protected hourglass Dirac loop, nodal line, and Dirac point in bulk and monolayer $X_3$SiTe$_6$ ($X=$ Ta, Nb)

Nonsymmorphic space group symmetries can generate exotic band-crossings in topological metals and semimetals. Here, based on symmetry analysis and first-principles calculations, we reveal rich band-crossing features in the existing layered compounds Ta$_3$SiTe$_6$ and Nb$_3$SiTe$_6$, enabled by nonsymmorphic symmetries. We show that in the absence of spin-orbit coupling (SOC), these three-dimensional (3D) bulk materials possess accidental Dirac loops and essential fourfold nodal lines. In the presence of SOC, there emerges an hourglass Dirac loop---a fourfold degenerate nodal loop, on which ea…

Cat's cradle-like Dirac semimetals in layer groups with multiple screw axes: Application to 2D Borophene and Borophane

Recently, the crystal symmetry-protected topological semimetals have aroused extensive interests, especially for the nonsymmorphic symmetry-protected one. We list the possible nonmagnetic topological semimetals and develop their k.p Hamiltonian in all layer groups with multiple screw axes in the absence of spin-orbital coupling. We find a novel cat's cradle-like topological semimetal phase, which looks like multiple hourglass-like band structures staggered together. Furthermore, we propose the monolayer borophene and borophane with pmmn layer group as the first material class to realize such n…

Field-tunable toroidal moment and anomalous Hall effect in noncollinear antiferromagnetic Weyl semimetal Co1/3TaS2

Combining magnetism with band topology provides various novel phases that are otherwise impossible. Among several cases, noncollinear metallic antiferromagnets can reveal particularly rich topological physics due to their diverse magnetic ground states. However, there are only a few experimental studies due to the lack of suitable materials, especially with triangular lattice antiferromagnets. Here, we report that metallic triangular antiferromagnet Co1/3TaS2 exhibits a substantial anomalous Hall effect (AHE) related to its noncollinear magnetic order. Our first-principles calculations found t…

Signature of topological non-trivial band structure in Ta$_{3}$SiTe$_{6}$

The study of topology protected electronic properties is a fascinating topic in present day condensed matter physics research. New topological materials are frequently being proposed and explored through various experimental techniques. Ta$_{3}$SiTe$_{6}$ is a newly predicted topological semimetal with fourfold degenerate nodal-line crossing in absence of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and an hourglass Dirac loop, when SOC is included. Recent angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy study in this material, has also confirmed Dirac like dispersions and two nodal-lines near the Fermi energy, protect…

非中心对称超导体TaReSi的全带隙超导性与拓扑特性

Fully-gapped superconductivity and topological aspects of the noncentrosymmetric TaReSi superconductor

本研究结合μSR技术与能带计算，揭示非中心对称超导体TaReSi的全带隙超导态与时间反演对称性，发现其正常态为三维Kramers节点线半金属，为拓扑超导研究提供新候选材料。