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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
卷 120, 期 14, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.146601
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- Spanish MINECO/FEDER [FIS2014-57432-P, FIS2015-63770P, FIS2017-82260-P]
- CAM research consortium [QUITEMAD+ S2013/ICE2801]
We show that, under a strong magnetic field, a 3D nodal-line semimetal is driven into a topological insulating phase in which the electronic transport takes place at the surface of the material. When the magnetic field is perpendicular to the nodal ring, the surface states of the semimetal are transmuted into Landau states which correspond to exceptional points, i.e., branch points in the spectrum of a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian which arise upon the extension to complex values of the momentum. The complex structure of the spectrum then allows us to express the number of zero-energy flat bands in terms of a new topological invariant counting the number of exceptional points. When the magnetic field is parallel to the nodal ring, we find that the bulk states are built from the pairing of surfacelike evanescent waves, giving rise to a 3D quantum Hall effect with a flat level of Landau states residing in parallel 2D slices of the 3D material. The Hall conductance is quantized in either case in units of e(2)/h, leading in the 3D Hall effect to a number of channels growing linearly with the section of the surface and opening the possibility to observe a macroscopic chiral current at the surface of the material.
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