Experimental evidence of hourglass fermion in the candidate nonsymmorphic topological insulator KHgSb

Junzhang Ma; Changjiang Yi; Baiqing Lv; ZhiJun Wang; Simin Nie; Le Wang; Lingyuan Kong; Yaobo Huang; Pierre Richard; Peng Zhang; Koichiro Yaji; Kenta Kuroda; Shik Shin; Hongming Weng; Bogdan Andrei Bernevig; Youguo Shi; Tian Qian; Hong Ding

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Experimental evidence of hourglass fermion in the candidate nonsymmorphic topological insulator KHgSb

Junzhang Ma¹,*,
Changjiang Yi¹,*,
Baiqing Lv¹,*,
ZhiJun Wang²,*,
Simin Nie¹,
Le Wang¹,
Lingyuan Kong¹,
Yaobo Huang³,
Pierre Richard¹,⁴,⁵,
Peng Zhang⁶,
Koichiro Yaji⁶,
Kenta Kuroda⁶,
Shik Shin⁶,
Hongming Weng¹,⁴,
Bogdan Andrei Bernevig²,
Youguo Shi¹,†,
Tian Qian¹,⁴,† and
Hong Ding¹,⁴,⁵,†

¹Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
²Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
³Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201204, China.
⁴Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing, China.
⁵School of Physics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
⁶Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, Japan.

↵†Corresponding author. Email: dingh{at}iphy.ac.cn (H.D.); tqian{at}iphy.ac.cn (T.Q.); ygshi{at}iphy.ac.cn (Y.S.)

↵* These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Science Advances 05 May 2017:
Vol. 3, no. 5, e1602415
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1602415

Junzhang Ma

Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.

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Changjiang Yi

Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.

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Baiqing Lv

Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.

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ZhiJun Wang

Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.

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Simin Nie

Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.

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Le Wang

Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.

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Lingyuan Kong

Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.

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Yaobo Huang

Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201204, China.

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Pierre Richard

Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.

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School of Physics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.

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Peng Zhang

Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, Japan.

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Koichiro Yaji

Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, Japan.

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Kenta Kuroda

Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, Japan.

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Shik Shin

Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, Japan.

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Hongming Weng

Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.

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Bogdan Andrei Bernevig

Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.

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Youguo Shi

Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.

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For correspondence: dingh@iphy.ac.cn tqian@iphy.ac.cn ygshi@iphy.ac.cn

Tian Qian

Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.

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For correspondence: dingh@iphy.ac.cn tqian@iphy.ac.cn ygshi@iphy.ac.cn

Hong Ding

Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.

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School of Physics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.

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For correspondence: dingh@iphy.ac.cn tqian@iphy.ac.cn ygshi@iphy.ac.cn

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