Comprehensive search for topological materials using symmetry indicators

Feng Tang, Hoi Chun Po, Ashvin Vishwanath and Xiangang Wan ()
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Feng Tang: Nanjing University
Hoi Chun Po: Harvard University
Ashvin Vishwanath: Harvard University
Xiangang Wan: Nanjing University

Nature, 2019, vol. 566, issue 7745, 486-489

Abstract: Abstract Over the past decade, topological materials—in which the topology of electron bands in the bulk material leads to robust, unconventional surface states and electromagnetism—have attracted much attention. Although several theoretically proposed topological materials have been experimentally confirmed, extensive experimental exploration of topological properties, as well as applications in realistic devices, has been restricted by the lack of topological materials in which interference from trivial Fermi surface states is minimized. Here we apply our method of symmetry indicators to all suitable nonmagnetic compounds in all 230 possible space groups. A database search reveals thousands of candidate topological materials, of which we highlight 241 topological insulators and 142 topological crystalline insulators that have either noticeable full bandgaps or a considerable direct gap together with small trivial Fermi pockets. Furthermore, we list 692 topological semimetals that have band crossing points located near the Fermi level. These candidate materials open up the possibility of using topological materials in next-generation electronic devices.

Date: 2019
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