Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://physrep.ff.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/504
Title: Peculiar symmetry-protected electronic dispersions in two-dimensional materials
Authors: Damljanovic, Vladimir
Lazić, Nataša 
Šolajić, Andrijana
Pešiċ, Jelena
Nikolić, Božidar 
Damnjanović, Milan 
Keywords: electronic dispersions;new fermions;spin-orbit coupling;symmetry
Issue Date: 30-Jul-2020
Journal: Journal of physics. Condensed matter : an Institute of Physics journal
Abstract: 
Symmetry indicates that low energy spectra of materials could be richer than well-known Dirac, semi-Dirac, or quadratic, hosting some unusual quasiparticles. Performing the systematic study of exact forms of low energy effective Hamiltonians and dispersions in high-symmetry points with fourfold degeneracy of bands, we found new, previously unreported dispersion, which we named poppy flower after its shape. This massless fermion exists in non-magnetic two-dimensional (2D) crystals with spin-orbit coupling, which are invariant under one of the proposed ten noncentrosymmetric layer groups. We suggest real 3D layered materials suitable for exfoliation, having layers that belong to these symmetry groups as candidates for realization of poppy flower fermions. In 2D systems without spin-orbit interaction, fortune teller-like fermions were theoretically predicted, and afterward experimentally verified in the electronic structure of surface layer of silicon. Herein, we show that such fermions can also be hosted in 2D crystals with spin-orbit coupling, invariant under additional two noncentrosymmetric layer groups. This prediction is confirmed by density functional based calculation: layered BiIO4, which has been synthesized already as a 3D crystal, exfoliates to stable monolayer with symmetry pb2_1a, and fortune teller fermion is observed in the band structure. Analytically calculated density of states of the poppy flower shows semimetallic characteristic, in contrast to metallic nature of fortune teller having non-zero density of states at the bands contact energy. We indicate possibilities for symmetry breaking patterns which correspond to the robustness of the proposed dispersions as well as to the transition from Dirac centrosymmetric semimetal to poppy flower.
URI: https://physrep.ff.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/504
ISSN: 0953-8984
DOI: 10.1088/1361-648X/abaad1
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