Eightfold fermionic excitation in a charge density wave compound
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Zhang, Xi; Gu, Qiangqiang; Sun, Haigen; Luo, Tianchuang; Liu, Yanzhao; Chen, Yueyuan; Shao, Zhibin; Zhang, Zongyuan; Li, Shaojian; Sun, Yuanwei; Li, Yuehui; Li, Xiaokang; Xue, Shangjie; Ge, Jun; Xing, Ying; Comin, R; Zhu, Zengwei; Gao, Peng; Yan, Binghai; Feng, Ji; Pan, Minghu; Wang, Jian; ... Show more Show less
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© 2020 American Physical Society. Unconventional quasiparticle excitations in condensed matter systems have become one of the most important research frontiers. Beyond twofold and fourfold degenerate Weyl and Dirac fermions, threefold, sixfold, and eightfold symmetry protected degeneracies have been predicted. However they remain challenging to realize in solid state materials. Here the charge density wave compound TaTe4 is proposed to hold eightfold fermionic excitation and Dirac point in energy bands. High quality TaTe4 single crystals are prepared, where the charge density wave is revealed by directly imaging the atomic structure and a pseudogap of about 45 meV on the surface. Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations of TaTe4 are consistent with band structure calculation. Scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy reveals atomic step edge states on the surface of TaTe4. This work uncovers that the charge density wave is able to induce new topological phases and sheds new light on the novel excitations in condensed matter materials.
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2020Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of PhysicsJournal
Physical Review B
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American Physical Society (APS)