Discovering Topological Surface States of Dirac Points

Phys Rev Lett. 2020 Mar 13;124(10):104301. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.104301.

Abstract

Dirac materials, unlike the Weyl materials, have not been found in experiments to support intrinsic topological surface states, as the surface arcs in existing systems are unstable against symmetry-preserving perturbations. Utilizing the proposed glide and time-reversal symmetries, we theoretically design and experimentally verify an acoustic crystal of two frequency-isolated three-dimensional Dirac points with Z_{2} monopole charges and four gapless helicoid surface states.