Informace o publikaci
Triple-Point Fermions in Ferroelectric GeTe
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| Rok publikování | 2021 |
| Druh | Článek v odborném periodiku |
| Časopis / Zdroj | Physical Review Letters |
| Fakulta / Pracoviště MU | |
| Citace | |
| www | https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.206403 |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.206403 |
| Klíčová slova | Electronic structure; Ferroelectricity; Topological phases of matter; Topological materials; Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy; Density functional calculations |
| Popis | Ferroelectric alpha-GeTe is unveiled to exhibit an intriguing multiple nontrivial topology of the electronic band structure due to the existence of triple-point and type-II Weyl fermions, which goes well beyond the giant Rashba spin splitting controlled by external fields as previously reported. Using spin- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy combined with ab initio density functional theory, the unique spin texture around the triple point caused by the crossing of one spin-degenerate and two spin-split bands along the ferroelectric crystal axis is derived. This consistently reveals spin winding numbers that are coupled with time-reversal symmetry and Lorentz invariance, which are found to be equal for both triple-point pairs in the Brillouin zone. The rich manifold of effects opens up promising perspectives for studying nontrivial phenomena and multicomponent fermions in condensed matter systems. |
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