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arXiv 2005.06563cond-mat.mtrl-sci
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从第一性原理研究BiTeI拓扑相变的温度依赖性

Temperature dependence of the topological phase transition of BiTeI from first principles

Véronique Brousseau-Couture, Gabriel Antonius, Michel Côté

摘要:

从平凡绝缘体到$\mathbb{Z}_2$拓扑绝缘体的拓扑相变要求体带隙消失。在非中心对称材料的情况下,这些相被无间隙的外尔半金属相分开。然而,在有限的温度下,通过电子-声子相互作用,原子运动和晶格的热膨胀影响间隙。因此,拓扑非平凡相的相空间受温度的影响。本文从第一性原理出发,研究了BiTeI间接带隙的压力和温度依赖性。我们评估的贡献,从电子-声子相互作用和热膨胀,并表明,它们的组合效应驱动的拓扑相变随着温度的升高,朝着更高的压力。值得注意的是,我们发现,这两个带极值的灵敏度的压力和拓扑结构的电子-声子相互作用显着不同,根据其领先的轨道字符。我们的研究结果表明,外尔半金属相的宽度增加的温度,几乎翻了一番,100 K相比,静态晶格的结果。因此,我们的研究结果提供了一个指导方针,BiTeI的非平凡阶段的实验检测,并说明如何在非中心对称材料的Weyl半金属相的相空间可以显着地受到温度的影响。

英文摘要:

A topological phase transition from a trivial insulator to a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ topological insulator requires the bulk band gap to vanish. In the case of noncentrosymmetric materials, these phases are separated by a gapless Weyl semimetal phase. However, at finite temperature, the gap is affected by atomic motion, through electron-phonon interaction, and by thermal expansion of the lattice. As a consequence, the phase space of topologically nontrivial phases is affected by temperature. In this paper, the pressure and temperature dependence of the indirect band gap of BiTeI is investigated from first principles. We evaluate the contribution from both electron-phonon interaction and thermal expansion, and show that their combined effect drives the topological phase transition towards higher pressures with increasing temperature. Notably, we find that the sensitivity of both band extrema to pressure and topology for electron-phonon interaction differs significantly according to their leading orbital character. Our results indicate that the Weyl semimetal phase width is increased by temperature, having almost doubled by 100 K when compared to the static lattice results. Our findings thus provide a guideline for experimental detection of the nontrivial phases of BiTeI and illustrate how the phase space of the Weyl semimetal phase in noncentrosymmetric materials can be significantly affected by temperature.

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