Electronic band structure of 4d and 5d transition metal trichalcogenides

Abstract

Transition metal trichalcogenides (TMTs), a family of van der Waals materials, have gained increasing interests from the discovery of magnetism in few-layer forms. Although TMTs with 3d transition metal elements have been studied extensively, much less is explored for the 4d and 5d cases, where the interesting interplay between electron correlations and the relativistic spin-orbit coupling is expected. Using ab initio calculations, we here investigate the electronic property of TMTs with 4d and 5d transition metal elements. We show that the band structures exhibit multiple node-like features near the Fermi level. These are the remnant of multiple Dirac cones that were recently discovered in the monolayer cases. Our results indicate that the peculiar two-dimensional multiple Dirac cones are concealed even in the layered bulk systems.

4 pages, 3 figures

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