Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS March Meeting 2019
Volume 64, Number 2
Monday–Friday, March 4–8, 2019; Boston, Massachusetts
Session V46: 4d/5d Transition Metal Systems -- New Phases
2:30 PM–5:30 PM,
Thursday, March 7, 2019
BCEC
Room: 212
Sponsoring
Units:
DMP GMAG
Chair: Jasminka Terzic, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Abstract: V46.00007 : Dirac Nodal Lines and Density-Functional Prediction of a Large Spin Hall Effect in 6H-perovskite Iridate Ba3TiIr2O9
3:42 PM–3:54 PM
Presenter:
Sayantika Bhowal
(University of Missouri)
Authors:
Sayantika Bhowal
(University of Missouri)
Sashi Sekhar Satpathy
(University of Missouri)
Topological semi-metals have received considerable attention recently due to their nontrivial band structure protected by symmetry, resulting in a number of emerging quantum phenomena such as Fermi arcs, anomalous Hall effect, spin Hall effect (SHE), etc. While the Dirac and Weyl semi-metals, the typical examples of 3D topological semi-metals, are well studied in the literature, currently an interest has been emerging in the Dirac nodal line semi-metals (DNLS) because they are good candidates for SHE. Here, based on the density-functional calculations, we predict a new iridate material Ba3TiIr2O9 with nodal lines present in the band structure, which with the introduction of SOC become gapped along certain high symmetry directions in the Brillouin zone, but not along the other directions, being protected by the non-symmorphic symmetry of the crystal structure. The latter type of nodal lines are characterized by the quantized Berry phase π, while the former kind of nodal lines are responsible for a strong SHE. The magnitude of the SHE is calculated using a tight-binding fit to the DFT band structure. Our work suggests Ba3TiIr2O9 as a potential SHE material for spintronics applications and motivates experimental work on the system.
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