Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Experimental realization of two-dimensional Dirac nodal line fermions in monolayer Cu2Si

  • Baojie Feng,
  • Botao Fu,
  • Shusuke Kasamatsu,
  • Suguru Ito,
  • Peng Cheng,
  • Cheng-Cheng Liu,
  • Ya Feng,
  • Shilong Wu,
  • Sanjoy K. Mahatha,
  • Polina Sheverdyaeva,
  • Paolo Moras,
  • Masashi Arita,
  • Osamu Sugino,
  • Tai-Chang Chiang,
  • Kenya Shimada,
  • Koji Miyamoto,
  • Taichi Okuda,
  • Kehui Wu,
  • Lan Chen,
  • Yugui Yao,
  • Iwao Matsuda

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01108-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

Read online

Nodal line semimetals have been observed in three-dimensional materials but are missing in two-dimensional counterparts. Here, Feng et al. report two-dimensional Dirac nodal line fermions protected by mirror reflection symmetry in monolayer Cu2Si.