Optical Signature of Flat Bands in Topological Hourglass Semimetal Nb3SiTe6

Abstract

Flat electronic bands in condensed matter provide a rich avenue for exploring novel quantum phenomena. Here, we report an optical spectroscopy study of a topological hourglass semimetal Nb3SiTe6 with the electric field of the incident light parallel to its crystalline ab-plane. The ab-plane optical conductivity spectra of Nb3SiTe6 single crystals exhibit a remarkable peak-like feature around 1.20 eV, which is mainly contributed by the direct optical transitions between the two ab-initio-calculation-derived flat bands along the momentum direction Z-U. Our results pave the way for investigating exotic quantum phenomena based on the flat bands in topological hourglass semimetals.

Accepted by Chinese Physics B

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