Hourglass Dirac chain metal in rhenium dioxide

Shan-Shan Wang; Ying Liu; Zhi-Ming Yu; Xian-Lei Sheng; Shengyuan A. Yang

doi:10.1038/s41467-017-01986-3

Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Hourglass Dirac chain metal in rhenium dioxide

Shan-Shan Wang,
Ying Liu,
Zhi-Ming Yu,
Xian-Lei Sheng,
Shengyuan A. Yang

Affiliations

Shan-Shan Wang: Research Laboratory for Quantum Materials, Singapore University of Technology and Design
Ying Liu: Research Laboratory for Quantum Materials, Singapore University of Technology and Design
Zhi-Ming Yu: Research Laboratory for Quantum Materials, Singapore University of Technology and Design
Xian-Lei Sheng: Research Laboratory for Quantum Materials, Singapore University of Technology and Design
Shengyuan A. Yang: Research Laboratory for Quantum Materials, Singapore University of Technology and Design

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01986-3
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Exotic topological particles are reported to arise from special types of symmetry protection. Here, Wang et al. predict an hourglass Dirac chain metal protected by nonsymmorphic symmetries and its possible realization in ReO2.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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