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arXiv 2108.03103cond-mat.mes-hallcond-mat.mtrl-sci
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超薄拓扑绝缘体薄膜畴界间隙态的可视化

Visualizing the in-gap states in domain boundaries of ultra-thin topological insulator films

Jun Zhang, Junbo Cheng, Shuaihua Ji, Yeping Jiang

摘要:

超薄拓扑绝缘体为实现量子自旋霍尔效应、量子反常霍尔效应等奇异现象提供了平台。实验上,虽然这些状态已经在各种系统中实现,但边缘状态在传输中成为主导通道的温度非常低,与体隙通常在几十毫电子伏特的数量级的事实相反。一定有其他的间隙传导通道,直到很低的温度才冻结。本文利用分子束外延技术生长了超薄拓扑绝缘体Bi_2Te_3和Sb_2Te_3薄膜,并研究了薄膜中的畴界结构。通过扫描隧道显微镜和光谱学,我们发现,具有大的旋转角的域边界具有明显的间隙束缚态,通过它的一维导电通道建议形成可视化的空间分辨光谱。我们的工作表明,域边界在降低输运性能中发挥的关键作用。

英文摘要:

Ultra-thin topological insulators provide a platform of realizing many exotic phenomena such a Quantum spin Hall effect, Quantum anomalous Hall effect, etc. These effects or states are characterized by quantized transport behavior of edge states. Experimentally, although these states have been realized in various systems, the temperature for the edge states to be the dominating channel in transport is extremely low, contrary to the fact that the bulk gap is usually in the order of a few tens of milli-electron volts. There must be other in-gap conduction channels that won't freeze out till a much low temperature. Here we grow ultra-thin topological insulator Bi2Te3 and Sb2Te3 films by molecular beam epitaxy and investigate the structures of domain boundaries in these films. By scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy we find that the domain boundaries with large rotation angles have pronounced in-gap bound states, through which one dimensional conduction channels are suggested to form as visualized by spatially resolved spectroscopy. Our work indicates the critical role played by domain boundaries in degrading the transport properties.

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