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Title: Unconventional Chiral Fermions and Large Topological Fermi Arcs in RhSi

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters
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  1. National Univ. of Singapore (Singapore)
  2. Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
  3. KTH Royal Inst. of Technology, Stockholm (Sweden)
  4. National Sun Yat-sen Univ. (Taiwan)
  5. National Cheng Kung Univ. (Taiwan)
  6. Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA (United States)
  7. Princeton Univ., NJ (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

The theoretical proposal of chiral fermions in topological semimetals has led to a significant effort towards their experimental realization. In particular, the Fermi surfaces of chiral semimetals carry quantized Chern numbers, making them an attractive platform for the observation of exotic transport and optical phenomena. Although the simplest example of a chiral fermion in condensed matter is a conventional |C|=1 Weyl fermion, recent theoretical works have proposed a number of unconventional chiral fermions beyond the standard model which are protected by unique combinations of topology and crystalline symmetries. Yet, materials candidates for experimentally probing the transport and response signatures of these unconventional fermions have thus far remained elusive. Here, we propose the RhSi family in space group No. 198 as the ideal platform for the experimental examination of unconventional chiral fermions. We find that RhSi is a filling-enforced semimetal that features near its Fermi surface a chiral double sixfold-degenerate spin-1 Weyl node at R and a previously uncharacterized fourfold-degenerate chiral fermion at Γ. Each unconventional fermion displays Chern number ±4 at the Fermi level. We also show that RhSi displays the largest possible momentum separation of compensative chiral fermions, the largest proposed topologically nontrivial energy window, and the longest possible Fermi arcs on its surface. We conclude by proposing signatures of an exotic bulk photogalvanic response in RhSi.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Grant/Contract Number:
FG02-07ER46352; AC02-05CH11231
OSTI ID:
1544354
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1409231
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 119, Issue 20; ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 230 works
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