Hierarchy of quasi-symmetries and degeneracies in chiral crystal materials CoSi

Abstract

In materials, certain approximated symmetry operations can exist in a lower-order approximation of the effective model but are good enough to influence the physical responses of the system, and these approximated symmetries were recently dubbed "quasi-symmetries" \cite{guo_arxiv_2021}. In this work, we reveal a hierarchy structure of the quasi-symmetries and the corresponding nodal structures that they enforce via two different approaches of the perturbation expansions for the effective model in the chiral crystal material CoSi. In the first approach, we treat the spin-independent linear momentum (k) term as the zero-order Hamiltonian. Its energy bands are four-fold degenerate due to an SU(2)$\times$SU(2) quasi-symmetry. We next consider both the k-independent spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and full quadratic-k terms as the perturbation terms and find that the first-order perturbation leads to a model described by a self-commuting "stabilizer code" Hamiltonian with a U(1) quasi-symmetry that can protect nodal planes. In the second approach, we treat the SOC-free linear-k term and k-independent SOC term as the zero-order. They exhibit an SU(2) quasi-symmetry, which can be reduced to U(1) quasi-symmetry by a choice of quadratic terms. Correspondingly, a two-fold degeneracy for all the bands due to the SU(2) quasi-symmetry is reduced to two-fold nodal planes that are protected by the U(1) quasi-symmetry. For both approaches, including higher-order perturbation will break the U(1) quasi-symmetry and induce a small gap $\sim$ 1 meV for the nodal planes. These quasi-symmetry protected near degeneracies play an essential role in understanding recent quantum oscillation experiments in CoSi.

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