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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 103, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.103.125134
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- Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) [2016/10167-8, 2018/10835-6, 2018/08819-2, 2019/07082-9, 2019/14359-7, 2019/05005-7, 2020/08258-0]
- Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES) - Brasil [001]
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The study reveals the controllability of electronic and elastic properties in Dirac semimetal NiTe2 through strain, and proposes a method of controlling the electronic structure by intercalating alkali species into the van der Waals gap.
In the present work, we investigate the electronic and elastic properties in equilibrium and under strain of the type-II Dirac semimetal NiTe2 using density functional theory. Our results demonstrate the tunability of Dirac nodes' energy and momentum with strain and that it is possible to bring them closer to the Fermi level, while other metallic bands are suppressed. We also derive a minimal 4-band effective model for the Dirac cones, which accounts for the aforementioned strain effects by means of lattice regularization, providing an inexpensive way for further theoretical investigations and easy comparison with experiments. On an equal footing, we propose the static control of the electronic structure by intercalating alkali species into the van derWaals gap, resulting in the same effects obtained by strain engineering and removing the requirement of in situ strain. Finally, evaluating the wave-function's symmetry evolution as the lattice is deformed, we discuss possible consequences, such as Liftshitz transitions and the coexistence of type-I and type-II Dirac cones, thus motivating future investigations.
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