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晶格终止对量子自旋霍尔绝缘层单层$1T'$ -WTe $_2$边缘态的影响

The influence of lattice termination on the edge states of the quantum spin Hall insulator monolayer $1T'$-WTe$_2$

Alexander Lau, Rajyavardhan Ray, Daniel Varjas, Anton Akhmerov

摘要:

研究了样品终止对新型量子自旋霍尔绝缘层单层$1T'$ -WTe $_2$电子性质的影响。为此,我们构建了一个精确的,最小的4-轨道紧束缚模型与自旋轨道耦合的结合,采用密度泛函理论计算,对称性的考虑,并拟合到实验数据。基于这个模型,我们计算了能带和2-终端电导谱的各种带状几何形状与不同的终端,有和没有磁场。由于强的电子-空穴不对称性,我们发现边缘狄拉克点被掩埋在大多数边缘终端的体带。在存在磁场的情况下,当边缘塞曼间隙打开时,间隙边缘狄拉克点导致电导的指数抑制,而当狄拉克点埋在体带中时,电导保持在量化值。最后,我们发现,在边缘终止的混乱彻底改变了这幅图片:一个足够粗糙的边缘的电导均匀抑制体间隙中的所有能量,无论边缘的方向。

英文摘要:

We study the influence of sample termination on the electronic properties of the novel quantum spin Hall insulator monolayer $1T'$-WTe$_2$. For this purpose, we construct an accurate, minimal 4-orbital tight-binding model with spin-orbit coupling by employing a combination of density-functional theory calculations, symmetry considerations, and fitting to experimental data. Based on this model, we compute energy bands and 2-terminal conductance spectra for various ribbon geometries with different terminations, with and without magnetic field. Because of the strong electron-hole asymmetry we find that the edge Dirac point is buried in the bulk bands for most edge terminations. In the presence of a magnetic field, an in-gap edge Dirac point leads to exponential suppression of conductance as an edge Zeeman gap opens, whereas the conductance stays at the quantized value when the Dirac point is buried in the bulk bands. Finally, we find that disorder in the edge termination drastically changes this picture: the conductance of a sufficiently rough edge is uniformly suppressed for all energies in the bulk gap regardless of the orientation of the edge.

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