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单层过渡金属二硫属化物拓扑激子绝缘体

A monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide as a topological excitonic insulator

Daniele Varsano, Maurizia Palummo, Elisa Molinari, Massimo Rontani

摘要:

T'相的单层过渡金属二硫属化物有望在室温下实现量子自旋霍尔(QSH)效应,因为它们在体相中的反转带之间表现出显著的自旋轨道间隙。在这里,我们表明,通过这个间隙激发的电子-空穴对的结合能大于间隙本身在二硫化钼,一个典范的材料,我们从第一原理多体微扰理论(MBPT)调查。这个矛盾的结果暗示了T'相对激子自发产生的不稳定性,而且我们发现它确实产生了一个重构的“激子绝缘体”基态。重要的是,我们表明,在这个系统中的拓扑和激子的顺序合作,通过打破晶体反转对称性,提高了体间隙,相反,双层的情况下,两个订单之间的挫折解除打破时间反转对称性。激子拓扑绝缘体明显地偏离裸拓扑相,因为它提升了带自旋简并,这导致圆二色性。一个适度的双轴应变施加到系统导致两个额外的激子相,不同的拓扑特征,但都是铁电的电子-电子相互作用的影响。

英文摘要:

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides in the T' phase promise to realize the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect at room temperature, because they exhibit a prominent spin-orbit gap between inverted bands in the bulk. Here we show that the binding energy of electron-hole pairs excited through this gap is larger than the gap itself in MoS2, a paradigmatic material that we investigate from first principles by many-body perturbation theory (MBPT). This paradoxical result hints at the instability of the T' phase against the spontaneous generation of excitons, and indeed we find that it gives rise to a recostructed `excitonic insulator' ground state. Importantly, we show that in this system topological and excitonic order cooperatively enhance the bulk gap by breaking the crystal inversion symmetry, in contrast to the case of bilayers where the frustration between the two orders is relieved by breaking time reversal symmetry. The excitonic topological insulator departs distinctively from the bare topological phase as it lifts the band spin degeneracy, which results in circular dichroism. A moderate biaxial strain applied to the system leads to two additional excitonic phases, different in their topological character but both ferroelectric as an effect of electron-electron interactions.

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