Gapped Dirac cones and spin texture in thin film topological insulator

2020/01/31 by Peter Thalmeier, Alireza Akbari
Chemistry · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Physical and Chemical Molecular Interactions #Chemical and Physical Properties of Materials #Dirac (video compression format) #Image warping #Insulator (electricity) #Quasiparticle #Texture (cosmology) #Thin film #Topological Materials and Phenomena #Topological insulator #cond-mat.mes-hall #cond-mat.mtrl-sci

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevresearch.2.033002

published as Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033002 (2020) · 16 pages, 13 figures

arxiv created 2020/06/17 · openalex publication_date 2020/07/01 · arxiv updated 2020/07/02 · openalex created_date 2020/07/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

This work predicts the quasiparticle interference spectrum in thin films of topological insulators under the influence of intersurface hybridization and intrasurface warping using a full t-matrix calculation.

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