Unremovable linked nodal structures protected by crystalline symmetries in stacked bilayer graphene with Kekulé texture

Abstract

Linking structure is a new concept characterizing topological semimetals, which indicates the interweaving of gap-closing nodes at the Fermi energy ($E_F$) with other nodes below $E_F$. As the number of linked nodes can be changed only via pair-creation or pair-annihilation, a linked node is more stable and robust than ordinary nodes without linking. Here we propose a new type of a linked nodal structure between a nodal line (nodal surface) at $E_F$ with another nodal line (nodal surface) below $E_F$ in two-dimensional (three-dimensional) spinless fermion systems with $\mathcal{IT}$ symmetry where $\mathcal{I}$ and $\mathcal{T}$ indicate inversion and time-reversal symmetries, respectively. Because of additional chiral and rotational symmetries, in our system, a double band inversion creates a pair of linked nodes carrying the same topological charges, thus the pair are unremovable via a Lifshiftz transition, which is clearly distinct from the cases of the linked nodes reported previously. A realistic tight binding model and effective theory are developed for such a linking structure. Also, using density functional theory calculations, we propose a class of materials, composed of stacked bilayer graphene with Kekulé texture, as a candidate system hosting the new type of the linked nodal structure.

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