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拉伸应变HgTe费米面的自旋织构

Spin texture on the Fermi surface of tensile strained HgTe

Saad Zaheer, S. M. Young, D. Cellucci, J. C. Y. Teo, C. L. Kane, E. J. Mele, Andrew M. Rappe

摘要:

本文采用从头算和k.p方法计算了拉伸应变HgTe费米面的自旋织构。拉伸应变碲化汞是一种在费米能级附近的一个镜像对称保护的双重简并带和两个非简并带之间具有点状偶然简并的半金属。费米面由两个椭球组成,它们在费米能级穿过沿(111)轴的二重简并带的点处接触。然而,占据态的自旋纹理表明两个椭圆体都不具有补偿陈数。因此,自旋织构被锁定在垂直于(111)轴的平面中,在该平面中呈现非零缠绕数,并且从费米椭球的一端到另一端改变缠绕数。自旋织构的缠绕变化表明奇点的存在。HgTe与ZnTe的有序合金具有与在(111)方向上拉伸锌晶格相同的效果。我们提出了从头计算的有序Hg_xZn_1-xTe证实存在自旋织构锁定在一个二维平面上的费米表面上的不同的缠绕数的两端。

英文摘要:

We present ab initio and k.p calculations of the spin texture on the Fermi surface of tensile strained HgTe, which is obtained by stretching the zincblende lattice along the (111) axis. Tensile strained HgTe is a semimetal with pointlike accidental degeneracies between a mirror symmetry protected twofold degenerate band and two nondegenerate bands near the Fermi level. The Fermi surface consists of two ellipsoids which contact at the point where the Fermi level crosses the twofold degenerate band along the (111) axis. However, the spin texture of occupied states indicates that neither ellipsoid carries a compensating Chern number. Consequently, the spin texture is locked in the plane perpendicular to the (111) axis, exhibits a nonzero winding number in that plane, and changes winding number from one end of the Fermi ellipsoids to the other. The change in the winding of the spin texture suggests the existence of singular points. An ordered alloy of HgTe with ZnTe has the same effect as stretching the zincblende lattice in the (111) direction. We present ab initio calculations of ordered Hg_xZn_1-xTe that confirm the existence of a spin texture locked in a 2D plane on the Fermi surface with different winding numbers on either end.

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