Generic Coexistence of Fermi Arcs and Dirac Cones on the Surface of Time-Reversal Invariant Weyl Semimetals

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Beitragende

  • Alexander Lau - , Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung Dresden (Autor:in)
  • Klaus Koepernik - , Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung Dresden (Autor:in)
  • Jeroen Van Den Brink - , Professur für Festkörpertheorie (gB/IFW), Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung Dresden (Autor:in)
  • Carmine Ortix - , Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung Dresden, Utrecht University (Autor:in)

Abstract

The hallmark of Weyl semimetals is the existence of open constant-energy contours on their surface - the so-called Fermi arcs - connecting Weyl points. Here, we show that, for time-reversal symmetric realizations of Weyl semimetals, these Fermi arcs, in many cases, coexist with closed Fermi pockets originating from surface Dirac cones pinned to time-reversal invariant momenta. The existence of Fermi pockets is required for certain Fermi-arc connectivities due to additional restrictions imposed by the six Z2 topological invariants characterizing a generic time-reversal invariant Weyl semimetal. We show that a change of the Fermi-arc connectivity generally leads to a different topology of the surface Fermi surface and identify the half-Heusler compound LaPtBi under in-plane compressive strain as a material that realizes this surface Lifshitz transition. We also discuss universal features of this coexistence in quasiparticle interference spectra.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer076801
FachzeitschriftPhysical review letters
Jahrgang119
Ausgabenummer7
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 18 Aug. 2017
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Externe IDs

PubMed 28949688

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