Dirac nodal surfaces and nodal lines in ZrSiS

BB Fu, CJ Yi, TT Zhang, M Caputo, JZ Ma, X Gao… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
BB Fu, CJ Yi, TT Zhang, M Caputo, JZ Ma, X Gao, BQ Lv, LY Kong, YB Huang, P Richard…
Science advances, 2019science.org
Topological semimetals are characterized by symmetry-protected band crossings, which can
be preserved in different dimensions in momentum space, forming zero-dimensional nodal
points, one-dimensional nodal lines, or even two-dimensional nodal surfaces. Materials
harboring nodal points and nodal lines have been experimentally verified, whereas
experimental evidence of nodal surfaces is still lacking. Here, using angle-resolved
photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), we reveal the coexistence of Dirac nodal surfaces …
Topological semimetals are characterized by symmetry-protected band crossings, which can be preserved in different dimensions in momentum space, forming zero-dimensional nodal points, one-dimensional nodal lines, or even two-dimensional nodal surfaces. Materials harboring nodal points and nodal lines have been experimentally verified, whereas experimental evidence of nodal surfaces is still lacking. Here, using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), we reveal the coexistence of Dirac nodal surfaces and nodal lines in the bulk electronic structures of ZrSiS. As compared with previous ARPES studies on ZrSiS, we obtained pure bulk states, which enable us to extract unambiguously intrinsic information of the bulk nodal surfaces and nodal lines. Our results show that the nodal lines are the only feature near the Fermi level and constitute the whole Fermi surfaces. We not only prove that the low-energy quasiparticles in ZrSiS are contributed entirely by Dirac fermions but also experimentally realize the nodal surface in topological semimetals.
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