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SnTe材料类别中的拓扑晶体绝缘体

Topological Crystalline Insulators in the SnTe Material Class

Timothy H. Hsieh, Hsin Lin, Junwei Liu, Wenhui Duan, Arun Bansil, Liang Fu

摘要:

拓扑晶体绝缘体是一种新的物质状态,其中电子结构的拓扑性质源于晶体对称性。在这里,我们预测的第一个材料实现的拓扑晶体绝缘体在半导体SnTe,通过确定其非零拓扑指数。我们预测,作为这种非平凡拓扑结构的表现,SnTe具有金属表面态,在高对称性晶体表面(如{001},{110}和{111})上具有偶数个狄拉克锥。这些表面态形成了一种新型的高迁移率手性电子气,它对无序具有鲁棒性,并且通过晶体相对于{110}镜面的反射对称性进行拓扑保护。通过弹性应变工程或施加面内磁场来打破这种镜像对称性可以在表面上打开连续可调的带隙,这可能导致在热电、红外检测和可调电子学中的广泛应用。密切相关的半导体PbTe和PbSe也成为拓扑晶体绝缘体后,带反转的压力,应变和合金化。

英文摘要:

Topological crystalline insulators are new states of matter in which the topological nature of electronic structures arises from crystal symmetries. Here we predict the first material realization of topological crystalline insulator in the semiconductor SnTe, by identifying its nonzero topological index. We predict that as a manifestation of this nontrivial topology, SnTe has metallic surface states with an even number of Dirac cones on high-symmetry crystal surfaces such as {001}, {110} and {111}. These surface states form a new type of high-mobility chiral electron gas, which is robust against disorder and topologically protected by reflection symmetry of the crystal with respect to {110} mirror plane. Breaking this mirror symmetry via elastic strain engineering or applying an in-plane magnetic field can open up a continuously tunable band gap on the surface, which may lead to wide-ranging applications in thermoelectrics, infrared detection, and tunable electronics. Closely related semiconductors PbTe and PbSe also become topological crystalline insulators after band inversion by pressure, strain and alloying.

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