The edge engineering of topological Bi(111) bilayer

Autor:	Li, Xiao, Liu, Hai-Wen, Jiang, Hua, Wang, Fa, Feng, Ji
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Condensed Matter - Materials Science Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Zdroj:	Phys. Rev. B 90, 165412 (2014)
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
DOI:	10.1103/PhysRevB.90.165412
Popis:	A topological insulator is a novel quantum state, characterized by symmetry-protected non-trivial edge/surface states. Our first-principle simulations show the significant effects of the chemical decoration on edge states of topological Bi(111) bilayer nanoribbon, which remove the trivial edge state and recover the Dirac linear dispersion of topological edge state. By comparing the edge states with and without chemical decoration, the Bi(111) bilayer nanoribbon offers a simple system for assessing conductance fluctuation of edge states. The chemical decoration can also modify the penetration depth and the spin texture of edge states. A low-energy effective model is proposed to explain the distinctive spin texture of Bi(111) bilayer nanoribbon, which breaks the spin-momentum orthogonality along the armchair edge. Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.0147 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv