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arXiv 2007.04353cond-mat.mes-hall
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拓扑边缘态中磁感应后向散射的观测

Observation of backscattering induced by magnetism in a topological edge state

Berthold Jäck, Yonglong Xie, B. Andrei Bernevig, Ali Yazdani

摘要:

拓扑绝缘体的边界模受到非平凡体电子态对称性的保护。除非这些对称性被打破,否则它们会产生新的现象,例如一维(1D)拓扑边缘态中的量子自旋霍尔效应,其中准粒子背散射被时间反演对称性(TRS)抑制。在这里,我们调查的1D拓扑边缘状态的铋在TRS的情况下,预测发生背散射的属性。使用光谱成像和自旋极化测量与扫描隧道显微镜,我们比较了准粒子干涉(QPI)发生在边缘状态的原始铋双层与发生在边缘状态的双层,这是终止于铁磁性铁簇,打破TRS。我们对装饰双层边缘的实验揭示了一个额外的QPI分支,它可以与时间反转带伙伴之间布里渊区中心的自旋翻转散射相关。所观察到的QPI特性完全符合理论预期的拓扑边缘状态,有一个克雷默对带。总之,我们的研究结果提供了进一步的证据,铋的非平凡的性质,特别是,证明背散射内的螺旋拓扑边缘状态通过局部磁性断裂TRS诱导。

英文摘要:

The boundary modes of topological insulators are protected by the symmetries of the non-trivial bulk electronic states. Unless these symmetries are broken, they can give rise to novel phenomena, such as the quantum spin Hall effect in one-dimensional (1D) topological edge states, where quasiparticle backscattering is suppressed by time-reversal symmetry (TRS). Here, we investigate the properties of the 1D topological edge state of bismuth in the absence of TRS, where backscattering is predicted to occur. Using spectroscopic imaging and spin-polarized measurements with a scanning tunneling microscope, we compared quasiparticle interference (QPI) occurring in the edge state of a pristine bismuth bilayer with that occurring in the edge state of a bilayer, which is terminated by ferromagnetic iron clusters that break TRS. Our experiments on the decorated bilayer edge reveal an additional QPI branch, which can be associated with spin-flip scattering across the Brioullin zone center between time-reversal band partners. The observed QPI characteristics exactly match with theoretical expectations for a topological edge state, having one Kramer's pair of bands. Together, our results provide further evidence for the non-trivial nature of bismuth, and, in particular, demonstrate backscattering inside a helical topological edge state induced by broken TRS through local magnetism.

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