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MnBi $_2$ Te $_4$中样品相关的Dirac点带隙及其对表面电荷的响应:光电子能谱和从头算研究

Sample-dependent Dirac point gap in MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ and its response to the applied surface charge: a combined photoemission and ab initio study

A. M. Shikin, D. A. Estyunin, N. L. Zaitsev, D. Glazkova, I. I. Klimovskikh, S. Filnov, A. G. Rybkin, E. F. Schwier, S. Kumar, A. Kimura, N. Mamedov, Z. Aliev, … 展开作者

A. M. Shikin, D. A. Estyunin, N. L. Zaitsev, D. Glazkova, I. I. Klimovskikh, S. Filnov, A. G. Rybkin, E. F. Schwier, S. Kumar, A. Kimura, N. Mamedov, Z. Aliev, M. B. Babanly, K. Kokh, O. E. Tereshchenko, M. M. Otrokov, E. V. Chulkov, K. A. Zvezdin, A. K. Zvezdin

摘要:

最近发现的本征反铁磁拓扑绝缘体MnBi $_2$ Te $_4$为实现量子反常霍尔效应和一些相关的高温现象提供了一个令人兴奋的平台。一个重要的特点,使这种材料的应用程序有吸引力的是其预测的大磁隙在狄拉克点(DP)。然而,虽然早期的实验测量报告了大的DP间隙,但最近的一些研究声称观察到MnBi $_2$ Te $_4$狄拉克锥的无间隙色散。在这里,我们使用微($μ$)激光角分辨光电子能谱,研究了15个不同的MnBi $_2$ Te $_4$样品,由两个不同的化学家小组生长的电子结构。通过对能量分布曲线的分析,在Néel温度以下10-16 K时,观测到了15 - 65 meV的DP能隙。在这一点上,大约一半的研究样本显示约30 meV的DP差距,而四分之一的样本的差距是在50至60 meV的范围。总结我们和其他小组的结果,在目前可用的MnBi $_2$ Te $_4$样品中,DP间隙可以获得几个和几十个meV之间的任意值。此外,基于密度泛函理论,我们讨论了一个可能的因素,可能有助于减少DP间隙的大小,这是多余的表面电荷,可以出现由于在表面区域的各种缺陷。我们证明了DP带隙受外加表面电荷的影响,甚至可以闭合,这可以用来调节MnBi $_2$ Te $_4$ DP带隙的大小.

英文摘要:

Recently discovered intrinsic antiferromagnetic topological insulator MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ presents an exciting platform for realization of the quantum anomalous Hall effect and a number of related phenomena at elevated temperatures. An important characteristic making this material attractive for applications is its predicted large magnetic gap at the Dirac point (DP). However, while the early experimental measurements reported on large DP gaps, a number of recent studies claimed to observe a gapless dispersion of the MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ Dirac cone. Here, using micro($μ$)-laser angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, we study the electronic structure of 15 different MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ samples, grown by two different chemists groups. Based on the careful energy distribution curves analysis, the DP gaps between 15 and 65 meV are observed, as measured below the Néel temperature at about 10-16 K. At that, roughly half of the studied samples show the DP gap of about 30 meV, while for a quarter of the samples the gaps are in the 50 to 60 meV range. Summarizing the results of both our and other groups, in the currently available MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ samples the DP gap can acquire an arbitrary value between a few and several tens of meV. Further, based on the density functional theory, we discuss a possible factor that might contribute to the reduction of the DP gap size, which is the excess surface charge that can appear due to various defects in surface region. We demonstrate that the DP gap is influenced by the applied surface charge and even can be closed, which can be taken advantage of to tune the MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ DP gap size.

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