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Electronic structure of intertwined kagome, honeycomb, and triangular sublattices of the intermetallics MCo2Al9 ( M = Sr, Ba)
Abstract
Intermetallics are an important playground to stabilize a large variety of physical phenomena, arising from their complex crystal structure. The ease of their chemical tunabilty makes them suitable platforms to realize targeted electronic properties starting from the symmetries hidden in their unit cell. Here, we investigate the family of the recently discovered intermetallics MCo2Al9 (M=Sr, Ba) and we unveil their electronic structure. By using angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy and density functional theory calculations, we discover the existence of Dirac-like dispersions as ubiquitous features in this family, coming from the hidden kagome and honeycomb symmetries embedded in the unit cell. Finally, from calculations, we expect that the spin-orbit coupling is responsible for opening energy gaps in the electronic structure spectrum, which also affects the majority of the observed Dirac-like states. Our study constitutes an experimental observation of the electronic structure of MCo2Al9 and proposes these systems as hosts of Dirac-like physics with intrinsic spin-orbit coupling. The latter effect suggests MCo2Al9 as a future platform for investigating the emergence of nontrivial topology.
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Chiara Bigi
- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9SS, United Kingdom
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Sahar Pakdel
- CAMD, Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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Pasquale Orgiani
- Istituto Officina dei Materiali (IOM)-CNR, Laboratorio TASC, Area Science Park, S.S.14, Km 163.5, I-34149 Trieste, Italy
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Ivana Vobornik
- Istituto Officina dei Materiali (IOM)-CNR, Laboratorio TASC, Area Science Park, S.S.14, Km 163.5, I-34149 Trieste, Italy
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Jun Fujii
- Istituto Officina dei Materiali (IOM)-CNR, Laboratorio TASC, Area Science Park, S.S.14, Km 163.5, I-34149 Trieste, Italy
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Giorgio Rossi
- Istituto Officina dei Materiali (IOM)-CNR, Laboratorio TASC, Area Science Park, S.S.14, Km 163.5, I-34149 Trieste, Italy
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Vincent Polewczyk
- Istituto Officina dei Materiali (IOM)-CNR, Laboratorio TASC, Area Science Park, S.S.14, Km 163.5, I-34149 Trieste, Italy
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Phil D. C. King
- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9SS, United Kingdom
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Giancarlo Panaccione
- Istituto Officina dei Materiali (IOM)-CNR, Laboratorio TASC, Area Science Park, S.S.14, Km 163.5, I-34149 Trieste, Italy
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Kristian Sommer Thygesen
- CAMD, Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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Federico Mazzola
- Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, I-30172 Venice, Italy
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- Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1103/PhysRevB.108.075148
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
no. 108,
ISSN: 2469-9950 - Language:
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- Publication year:
- 2023
- Bibliographic description:
- Bigi C., Pakdel S., Winiarski M., Orgiani P., Vobornik I., Fujii J., Rossi G., Polewczyk V., King P. D. C., Panaccione G., Klimczuk T., Thygesen K. S., Mazzola F.: Electronic structure of intertwined kagome, honeycomb, and triangular sublattices of the intermetallics MCo2Al9 ( M = Sr, Ba)// PHYSICAL REVIEW B -Vol. 108,iss. 7 (2023), s.075148-
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- Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1103/physrevb.108.075148
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- Gdańsk University of Technology
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