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非阿贝尔拓扑半金属及其相变的观测

Observation of non-Abelian topological semimetals and their phase transitions

Bin Jiang, Adrien Bouhon, Zhi-Kang Lin, Xiaoxi Zhou, Bo Hou, Feng Li, Robert-Jan Slager, Jian-Hua Jiang

摘要:

物质的拓扑相是物理学的核心,将优雅的数学原理与真正的材料联系起来,这些材料被认为会塑造未来的电子和量子计算技术。到目前为止,在这一学科的研究几乎只限于单隙带拓扑结构,因为费米-狄拉克填充效应。在这里,我们从理论上分析和实验上证实了一类新的多间隙拓扑相,我们将称为非阿贝尔拓扑半金属,在kagome几何。这些前所未有的物质形式依赖于欧拉类和框架电荷的概念,这些电荷是由于非阿贝尔电荷转换过程而产生的,当不同带隙的带节点在动量空间中相互编织时。我们在声学超材料中发现了这种奇异的现象,并揭示了由能带节点的产生、编织和重组引起的丰富的拓扑相图。利用泵浦-探测测量,我们验证了非阿贝尔电荷转换过程中的节点的拓扑电荷从一个间隙转移到另一个。此外,在这样的过程中,我们发现了具有独特的色散,直接链接到多间隙拓扑不变量的三重简并带节点的强制执行的中间阶段。此外,我们证实了边缘态可以忠实地描述多能隙拓扑相图。我们的研究揭示了一个新的制度的拓扑相,多间隙拓扑结构和非阿贝尔电荷的带节点在理解半金属相互连接的多个带发挥了至关重要的作用。

英文摘要:

Topological phases of matter lie at the heart of physics, connecting elegant mathematical principles to real materials that are believed to shape future electronic and quantum computing technologies. To date, studies in this discipline have almost exclusively been restricted to single-gap band topology because of the Fermi-Dirac filling effect. Here, we theoretically analyze and experimentally confirm a novel class of multi-gap topological phases, which we will refer to as non-Abelian topological semimetals, on kagome geometries. These unprecedented forms of matter depend on the notion of Euler class and frame charges which arise due to non-Abelian charge conversion processes when band nodes of different gaps are braided along each other in momentum space. We identify such exotic phenomena in acoustic metamaterials and uncover a rich topological phase diagram induced by the creation, braiding and recombination of band nodes. Using pump-probe measurements, we verify the non-Abelian charge conversion processes where topological charges of nodes are transferred from one gap to another. Moreover, in such processes, we discover symmetry-enforced intermediate phases featuring triply-degenerate band nodes with unique dispersions that are directly linked to the multi-gap topological invariants. Furthermore, we confirm that edge states can faithfully characterize the multi-gap topological phase diagram. Our study unveils a new regime of topological phases where multi-gap topology and non-Abelian charges of band nodes play a crucial role in understanding semimetals with inter-connected multiple bands.

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