Symmetry protection and giant Fermi arcs from multifold fermions in binary, ternary, and quaternary compounds

Abstract

Higher-fold chiral fermions that go beyond two-fold Weyl fermions have recently been reported in crystalline systems. Here, we focus on such excitations in several binary, ternary and quaternary alloys/compounds with CoGe, BiSbPt and KMgBO3 as the representative examples that belong to the crystal space group (SG) 198. We found distinct three-fold, four-fold and six-fold chiral fermions in the bulk via Density Functional computations. We provide general symmetry arguments for the protection of these degeneracies with special emphasis on the four-fold fermions. Our surface spectra simulations show that the size of Fermi arcs resulting from these chiral fermions are large, robust and untouched from the bulk states due to the near absence of trivial bulk Fermi pockets. All these features make these systems -- especially CoGe and KMgBO3 -- promising topological semimetal candidates to realize higher-fold fermions in future photo-emission and transport experiments.

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