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拓扑绝缘体Bi2Se3中Dirac点的面内轨道织构开关

In-Plane Orbital Texture Switch at the Dirac Point in the Topological Insulator Bi2Se3

Yue Cao, J. A. Waugh, X. -W. Zhang, J. -W. Luo, Q. Wang, T. J. Reber, S. K. Mo, Z. Xu, A. Yang, J. Schneeloch, G. Gu, M. Brahlek, N. Bansal, S. Oh, A. Zunger, Daniel S. Dessau

摘要:

拓扑绝缘体是一种新的宏观量子力学相,它有望实现物理学中一些最奇异的粒子,并在自旋电子学和量子计算中得到应用。在所有已知的拓扑绝缘体中,强的自旋轨道耦合对于受保护的无质量表面态的产生至关重要。因此,狄拉克态的完整描述应该包括波函数的自旋和轨道(空间)部分。对于具有单个狄拉克锥的材料家族,理论和实验在定性上一致,表明拓扑状态具有改变狄拉克点(DP)手性的手性自旋纹理,但它们在自旋如何极化方面存在定量差异。有限的现有理论思想预测手性本地轨道角动量的DP的两侧。然而,既没有直接的测量,也没有计算确定空间波函数的全局对称性。在这里,我们提出的第一个结果,从角分辨光电发射实验和第一性原理计算,都表明,与目前的预测相反,面内轨道波函数的表面状态的Bi 2 Se 3是不对称的相对于DP,切换从切向的DP以上的k-空间恒定能量表面,被径向的DP以下。由于轨道纹理切换恰好发生在DP,这种效应应该是拓扑物理学所固有的,构成了拓扑狄拉克态描述中一个重要但缺失的方面。我们的研究结果还表明,自旋织构可能比以前报道的更复杂,有助于调和早期相互矛盾的自旋分辨测量。

英文摘要:

Topological insulators are novel macroscopic quantum-mechanical phase of matter, which hold promise for realizing some of the most exotic particles in physics as well as application towards spintronics and quantum computation. In all the known topological insulators, strong spin-orbit coupling is critical for the generation of the protected massless surface states. Consequently, a complete description of the Dirac state should include both the spin and orbital (spatial) parts of the wavefunction. For the family of materials with a single Dirac cone, theories and experiments agree qualitatively, showing the topological state has a chiral spin texture that changes handedness across the Dirac point (DP), but they differ quantitatively on how the spin is polarized. Limited existing theoretical ideas predict chiral local orbital angular momentum on the two sides of the DP. However, there have been neither direct measurements nor calculations identifying the global symmetry of the spatial wavefunction. Here we present the first results from angle-resolved photoemission experiment and first-principles calculation that both show, counter to current predictions, the in-plane orbital wavefunctions for the surface states of Bi2Se3 are asymmetric relative to the DP, switching from being tangential to the k-space constant energy surfaces above DP, to being radial to them below the DP. Because the orbital texture switch occurs exactly at the DP this effect should be intrinsic to the topological physics, constituting an essential yet missing aspect in the description of the topological Dirac state. Our results also indicate that the spin texture may be more complex than previously reported, helping to reconcile earlier conflicting spin resolved measurements.

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