Nodal line semimetals through boundary

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.06033v1
• Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2023 09:26:47 GMT
• Title: Nodal line semimetals through boundary
• Authors: Protyush Nandi and Subinay Dasgupta
• Abstract summary: We study the properties of a spinless Hamiltonian which describes topological nodal line semimetals at zero temperature. One type of the semimetal is characterised by a single closed loop of nodal line, while the other, by two such loops both crossing the boundary of the first Brillouin zone. Surface states with non-zero winding number are found to exist in both of these phases, but over two topologically different regions.
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• Abstract: We study the properties of a spinless Hamiltonian which describes topological nodal line semimetals at zero temperature. Our Hamiltonian has some resemblance with the usual Hamiltonian for this type of materials, with that of Weyl semimetals and is some sort of a generalisation of Kitaev Hamiltonian on honeycomb lattice. As the interaction parameter of the Hamiltonian is varied, it shows a transition from a gapless phase to a semimetal phase and then to another semimetal phase. These transitions show up as non-analytic behaviour of ground state energy. We find that one type of the semimetal is characterised by a single closed loop of nodal line, while the other, by two such loops both crossing the boundary of the first Brillouin zone. Surface states with non-zero winding number are found to exist in both of these phases, but over two topologically different regions. We also study the length of nodal line, the area and perimeter of the region over which the winding number is non-zero and the low-frequency electrical conductivity.

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