Exotic topology on the surface

Abstract

Topological Matter Analyzing the spatial symmetries of three-dimensional (3D) crystal structures has led to the discovery of exotic types of quasiparticles and topologically nontrivial materials. Wieder et al. focus on the symmetry groups of 2D surfaces of 3D materials—the so-called wallpaper groups—and find that some of them allow for an additional topological class. This class hosts a single fourfold-degenerate Dirac fermion on the surface of the material and, on the basis of the authors' calculations, is expected to occur in the compound Sr2Pb3. Science , this issue p. [246][1] [1]: /lookup/doi/10.1126/science.aan2802