Strain-induced nonsymmorphic symmetry breaking and removal of Dirac semimetallic nodal line in an orthoperovskite iridate

Liu, Jian; Kriegner, Dominik; Horak, L.; Puggioni, D.; Serrao, C. Rayan; Chen, R.; Yi, D.; Frontera, C.; Holy, V.; Vishwanath, A.; Rondinelli, J. M.; Marti, X.; Ramesh, R.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.93.085118

Strain-induced nonsymmorphic symmetry breaking and removal of Dirac semimetallic nodal line in an orthoperovskite iridate

Journal Article · Thu Feb 11 00:00:00 EST 2016 · Physical Review B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.93.085118· OSTI ID:1238283

Liu, Jian ^[1]; Kriegner, Dominik ^[2]; Horak, L. ^[2]; Puggioni, D. ^[3]; Serrao, C. Rayan ^[4]; Chen, R. ^[5]; Yi, D. ^[4]; Frontera, C. ^[6]; Holy, V. ^[2]; Vishwanath, A. ^[5]; Rondinelli, J. M. ^[3]; Marti, X. ^[7]; Ramesh, R. ^[5]

Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Charles Univ., Prague (Czech Republic)
Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Inst. de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Bellaterra (Spain)
Inst. of Physics ASCR, Prague (Czech Republic)

By using a combination of heteroepitaxial growth, structure refinement based on synchrotron x-ray diffraction, and first-principles calculations, we show that the symmetry-protected Dirac line nodes in the topological semimetallic perovskite SrIrO₃ can be lifted simply by applying epitaxial constraints. In particular, the Dirac gap opens without breaking the Pbnm mirror symmetry. In virtue of a symmetry-breaking analysis, we demonstrate that the original symmetry protection is related to the n -glide operation, which can be selectively broken by different heteroepitaxial structures. Here, this symmetry protection renders the nodal line a nonsymmorphic Dirac semimetallic state. The results highlight the vital role of crystal symmetry in spin-orbit-coupled correlated oxides and provide a foundation for experimental realization of topological insulators in iridate-based heterostructures.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: Army Research Office; Austrian Science Fund; Spanish MINECO; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231; AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1238283

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1237794

Journal Information:: Physical Review B, Journal Name: Physical Review B Journal Issue: 8 Vol. 93; ISSN 2469-9950; ISSN PRBMDO

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: ENGLISH

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