Orbital-Active Dirac Materials from the Symmetry Principle
arXiv:2209.14510 · doi:10.1007/s44214-022-00025-7
Abstract
Dirac materials, starting with graphene, have drawn tremendous research interest in the past decade. Instead of focusing on the orbital as in graphene, we move a step further and study orbital-active Dirac materials, where the orbital degrees of freedom transform as a two-dimensional irreducible representation of the lattice point group. Examples of orbital-active Dirac materials occur in a broad class of systems, including transition-metal-oxide heterostructures, transition-metal dichalcogenide monolayers, germanene, stanene, and optical lattices. Different systems are unified based on symmetry principles. The band structure of orbital-active Dirac materials features Dirac cones at and quadratic band touching points at , regardless of the origin of the orbital degrees of freedom. In the strong anisotropy limit, i.e., when the -bonding can be neglected, flat bands appear due to the destructive interference. These features make orbital-active Dirac materials an even wider playground for searching for exotic states of matter, such as the Dirac semi-metal, ferromagnetism, Wigner crystallization, quantum spin Hall state, and quantum anomalous Hall state.
arXiv comment14 pages, 5 figures
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