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Enhanced Dirac node separation in strained Cd3As2 topological semimetal

Gauthier Krizman, Joaquin Bermejo-Ortiz, Manik Goyal, Alexander C. Lygo, Jiashu Wang, Zhan Zhang, Badih A. Assaf, Susanne Stemmer, Louis-Anne de Vaulchier, Yves Guldner

英文摘要:

In topological semimetals, nodes appear at symmetry points in the Brillouin zone as a result of band inversion, and yield quasi-relativistic massless fermions at low energies. Cd3As2 is a three-dimensional topological semimetal that hosts two Dirac cones responsible for a variety of quantum phenomena. In this work, we demonstrate the strain tuning of the Dirac nodes of Cd3As2 through a combination of magnetooptical infrared spectroscopy and high-resolution X-ray diffraction studies performed on epitaxial films. In these thin films, we observe a giant enhancement of the node separation in momentum space by close to a factor of 4. A combination of experimental measurements and theoretical modelling allows relate the origin of this enhancement to a strengthening of the topological band inversion driven by lattice strain. Our results demonstrate how strain can be used as a knob to tune the topological properties of semimetals and to potentially enhance their performance and response for various applications.

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