中国物理B ›› 2019, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (3): 37103-037103.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/28/3/037103

• SPECIAL TOPIC—Recent advances in thermoelectric materials and devices • 上一篇    下一篇

Realization of low-energy type-Ⅱ Dirac fermions in (Ir1-xPtx)Te2 superconductors

Bin-Bin Fu(付彬彬), Chang-Jiang Yi(伊长江), Zhi-Jun Wang(王志俊), Meng Yang(杨萌), Bai-Qing Lv(吕佰晴), Xin Gao(高鑫), Man Li(李满), Yao-Bo Huang(黄耀波), Hong-Ming Weng(翁红明), You-Guo Shi(石友国), Tian Qian(钱天), Hong Ding(丁洪)   

  1. 1 Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;
    2 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;
    3 Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201204, China;
    4 Department of Physics and Beijing Key Laboratory of Opto-electronic Functional Materials & Micro-nano Devices, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China;
    5 Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan 523808, China;
    6 CAS Center for Excellence in Topological Quantum Computation, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
  • 收稿日期:2019-01-12 修回日期:2019-01-30 出版日期:2019-03-05 发布日期:2019-03-05
  • 通讯作者: You-Guo Shi, Tian Qian, Hong Ding E-mail:ygshi@iphy.ac.cn;tqian@iphy.ac.cn;ingh@iphy.ac.cn
  • 基金资助:

    Project supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grant Nos. 2016YFA0300600, 2016YFA0401000, 2016YFA0302400, and 2017YFA0302901), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11622435, U1832202, and 11674369), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant Nos. QYZDB-SSW-SLH043, XDB07000000, and XDPB08-1), and the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission, China (Grant No. Z171100002017018).

Realization of low-energy type-Ⅱ Dirac fermions in (Ir1-xPtx)Te2 superconductors

Bin-Bin Fu(付彬彬)1,2, Chang-Jiang Yi(伊长江)1,2, Zhi-Jun Wang(王志俊)1, Meng Yang(杨萌)1,2, Bai-Qing Lv(吕佰晴)1,2, Xin Gao(高鑫)1,2, Man Li(李满)3,4, Yao-Bo Huang(黄耀波)3, Hong-Ming Weng(翁红明)1,5, You-Guo Shi(石友国)1,5, Tian Qian(钱天)1,5,6, Hong Ding(丁洪)1,6   

  1. 1 Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;
    2 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;
    3 Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201204, China;
    4 Department of Physics and Beijing Key Laboratory of Opto-electronic Functional Materials & Micro-nano Devices, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China;
    5 Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan 523808, China;
    6 CAS Center for Excellence in Topological Quantum Computation, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
  • Received:2019-01-12 Revised:2019-01-30 Online:2019-03-05 Published:2019-03-05
  • Contact: You-Guo Shi, Tian Qian, Hong Ding E-mail:ygshi@iphy.ac.cn;tqian@iphy.ac.cn;ingh@iphy.ac.cn
  • Supported by:

    Project supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grant Nos. 2016YFA0300600, 2016YFA0401000, 2016YFA0302400, and 2017YFA0302901), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11622435, U1832202, and 11674369), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant Nos. QYZDB-SSW-SLH043, XDB07000000, and XDPB08-1), and the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission, China (Grant No. Z171100002017018).

摘要:

Topological Dirac semimetals (DSMs) present a kind of topologically nontrivial quantum state of matter, which has massless Dirac fermions in the bulk and topologically protected states on certain surfaces. In superconducting DSMs, the effects of their nontrivial topology on superconducting pairing could realize topological superconductivity in the bulk or on the surface. As superconducting pairing takes place at the Fermi level EF, to make the effects possible, the Dirac points should lie in the vicinity of EF so that the topological electronic states can participate in the superconducting paring. Here, we show using angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy that in a series of (Ir1-xPtx)Te2 compounds, the type-Ⅱ Dirac points reside around EF in the superconducting region, in which the bulk superconductivity has a maximum Tc of~3 K. The realization of the coexistence of bulk superconductivity and low-energy Dirac fermions in (Ir1-xPtx)Te2 paves the way for studying the effects of the nontrivial topology in DSMs on the superconducting state.

关键词: type-II Dirac semimetal, superconductor, topological superconducting, angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), substitution

Abstract:

Topological Dirac semimetals (DSMs) present a kind of topologically nontrivial quantum state of matter, which has massless Dirac fermions in the bulk and topologically protected states on certain surfaces. In superconducting DSMs, the effects of their nontrivial topology on superconducting pairing could realize topological superconductivity in the bulk or on the surface. As superconducting pairing takes place at the Fermi level EF, to make the effects possible, the Dirac points should lie in the vicinity of EF so that the topological electronic states can participate in the superconducting paring. Here, we show using angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy that in a series of (Ir1-xPtx)Te2 compounds, the type-Ⅱ Dirac points reside around EF in the superconducting region, in which the bulk superconductivity has a maximum Tc of~3 K. The realization of the coexistence of bulk superconductivity and low-energy Dirac fermions in (Ir1-xPtx)Te2 paves the way for studying the effects of the nontrivial topology in DSMs on the superconducting state.

Key words: type-II Dirac semimetal, superconductor, topological superconducting, angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), substitution

中图分类号:  (Electron density of states and band structure of crystalline solids)

  • 71.20.-b
79.60.-i (Photoemission and photoelectron spectra) 73.20.At (Surface states, band structure, electron density of states) 74.70.-b (Superconducting materials other than cuprates)