• 文献标题:   Topological node-line semimetal in three-dimensional graphene networks
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   WENG HM, LIANG YY, XU QN, YU R, FANG Z, DAI X, KAWAZOE Y
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   Chinese Acad Sci
  • 被引频次:   314
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.92.045108
  • 出版年:   2015

▎ 摘  要

Graphene, a two-dimensional (2D) carbon sheet, acquires many of its amazing properties from the Dirac point nature of its electronic structures with negligible spin-orbit coupling. Extending to 3D space, graphene networks with negative curvature, called Mackay-Terrones crystals (MTCs), have been proposed and experimentally explored, yet their topological properties have yet to be discovered. Based on the first-principle calculations, we report an all-carbon MTC with topologically nontrivial electronic states by exhibiting node lines in bulk. When the node lines are projected onto surfaces to form circles, "drumhead"-like flat surface bands nestled inside of the circles are formed. The bulk node line can evolve into a 3D Dirac point in the absence of inversion symmetry, the existence of which has been shown to be plausible in recent experiments.