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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen
TT 20: Topological Semimetals II
TT 20.2: Talk
Monday, March 12, 2018, 15:15–15:30, A 053
Realizing double Dirac particles in the presence of electronic interactions — •Giorgio Sangiovanni1, Domenico Di Sante1, Andreas Hausoel1, Paolo Barone2, Jan Tomczak3, and Ronny Thomale1 — 1Institut fuer Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik, Universitaet Wuerzburg — 2Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, l’Aquila (Italy) — 3TU Wien (Austria)
Double Dirac fermions have recently been identified as possible quasiparticles hosted by three-dimensional crystals with particular nonsymmorphic point-group symmetries. Applying a combined approach of ab initio methods and dynamical mean-field theory, we investigate how interactions and double Dirac band topology conspire to form the electronic quantum state of Bi2CuO4. We derive a downfolded eight-band model of the pristine material at low energies around the Fermi level. By tuning the model parameters from the free band structure to the realistic strongly correlated regime, we find a persistence of the double Dirac dispersion until its constituting time-reversal symmetry is broken due to the onset of magnetic ordering at the Mott transition. Our calculations suggest that the double Dirac fermions in Bi2CuO4 can be restored by experimentally accessible hydrostatic pressures. In light of the growing attention to the topological quantum chemistry approach, our results on Bi2CuO4 show how many-body effects must be included beyond the static mean-field level for reliable predictions on new materials.
Phys. Rev. B 96, 121106(R) (2017)