Hourglass Dirac chain metal in rhenium dioxide

Exotic topological particles are reported to arise from special types of symmetry protection. Here, Wang et al. predict an hourglass Dirac chain metal protected by nonsymmorphic symmetries and its possible realization in ReO2.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Shan-Shan Wang, Ying Liu, Zhi-Ming Yu, Xian-Lei Sheng, Shengyuan A. Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01986-3