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NPJ QUANTUM MATERIALS
Volume 7, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41535-022-00441-x
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- U.S. Department Of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facilities [DE-AC02-05CH11231, AC02-76SF00515]
- ShanghaiTech University Library and Information Services and at the School of Physical Science and Technology
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) BES grant [DE-SC0019503]
- U.S. DOE [DE-SC0021421]
- Robert A. Welch Foundation [C-1818]
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation's EPiQS Initiative [GBMF9470]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11874263]
- National Key R&D Program of China [2017YFE0131300]
- Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDA18010000]
- U.S. NSF [DMR-1917511]
- National Science Foundation [DMR-2209804]
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars program
- Canada First Research Excellence Fund, Quantum Materials and Future Technologies Program
- U.S. DOE, Office of Science, Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists, Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program
- Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education for the DOE [DESC0014664]
- Eugene McDermott Graduate Fellows Program
- NSF DMREF grants [DMR-1921847, DMR-1921798]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0021421, DE-SC0019503] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
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The study reports Dirac nodal line crossings in PtPb4, which arise from the nonsymmorphic symmetry of its crystal structure. The results show that the nodal lines remain gapless in the absence of spin-orbit coupling (SOC), but the SOC lifts the band degeneracy everywhere except at a set of isolated points. However, the observed nodal line has a smaller bandwidth than predicted by density functional theory (DFT).
Topological semimetals with symmetry-protected band crossings have emerged as a rich landscape to explore intriguing electronic phenomena. Nonsymmorphic symmetries in particular have been shown to play an important role in protecting the crossings along a line (rather than a point) in momentum space. Here we report experimental and theoretical evidence for Dirac nodal line crossings along the Brillouin zone boundaries in PtPb4, arising from the nonsymmorphic symmetry of its crystal structure. Interestingly, while the nodal lines would remain gapless in the absence of spin-orbit coupling (SOC), the SOC, in this case, plays a detrimental role to topology by lifting the band degeneracy everywhere except at a set of isolated points. Nevertheless, the nodal line is observed to have a bandwidth much smaller than that found in density functional theory (DFT). Our findings reveal PtPb4 to be a material system with narrow crossings approximately protected by nonsymmorphic crystalline symmetries.
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