Nexus and Dirac lines in topological materials

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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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2015

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New Journal of Physics, Volume 17, issue September 2015, pp. 1-7

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We consider the Z2 topology of the Dirac lines, i.e., lines of band contacts, on an example of graphite. Four lines—three with topological charge ${N}_{1}=1$ each and one with ${N}_{1}=-1$—merge together near the H-point and annihilate due to summation law $1+1+1-1=0$. The merging point is similar to the real-space nexus, an analog of the Dirac monopole at which the Z2 strings terminate.

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Heikkilä, T T & Volovik, G E 2015, ' Nexus and Dirac lines in topological materials ', New Journal of Physics, vol. 17, no. September 2015, 093019, pp. 1-7 . https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/17/9/093019