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Three-dimensional Pentagon Carbon with a genesis of emergent fermions
- Source :
- Nature Communications 8, 15641 (2017)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Carbon, the basic building block of our universe, enjoys a vast number of allotropic structures. Owing to its bonding characteristic, most carbon allotropes possess the motif of hexagonal rings. Here, with first-principles calculations, we discover a new metastable three-dimensional carbon allotrope entirely composed of pentagon rings. The unique structure of this "Pentagon Carbon" leads to extraordinary electronic properties, making it a cornucopia of emergent topological fermions. Under lattice strain, Pentagon Carbon exhibits topological phase transitions, generating a series of novel quasiparticles, from isospin-1 triplet fermions, to triply-degenerate fermions, and further to concatenated Weyl-loop fermions. Its Landau level spectrum also exhibits distinct features, including a huge number of almost degenerate chiral Landau bands, implying pronounced magneto-transport signals. Our work not only discovers a remarkable carbon allotrope with highly rare structural motifs, it also reveals a fascinating hierarchical particle genesis with novel topological fermions beyond the Dirac and Weyl paradigm.
- Subjects :
- Condensed Matter - Materials Science
Physics - Computational Physics
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Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Journal :
- Nature Communications 8, 15641 (2017)
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1706.03293
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15641