Existence of bulk chiral fermions and crystal symmetry

Details Existence of bulk chiral fermions and crystal symmetry Existence of bulk chiral fermions and crystal symmetry

2011-09-12

arxiv.org/abs/1109.2581v3

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

8 pages, 4 figures. References added, improved presentation

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We consider the existence of bulk chiral fermions around points of symmetry in the Brillouin zone of nonmagnetic 3D crystals with negligible spin-orbit interactions. We use group theory to show that this is possible, but only for a reduced number of space groups and points of symmetry that we tabulate. Moreover, we show that for a handful of space groups the existence of bulk chiral fermions is not only possible but unavoidable, irrespective of the concrete crystal structure. Thus our tables can be used to look for bulk chiral fermions in a specific class of systems, namely that of nonmagnetic 3D crystals with sufficiently weak spin-orbit coupling. We also discuss the effects of spin-orbit interactions and possible extensions of our approach to Weyl semimetals, crystals with magnetic order, and systems with Dirac points with pseudospin 1 and 3/2. A simple tight-binding model is used to illustrate some of the issues.

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