Interfacing 2D and 3D topological insulators: Bi(111) bilayer on Bi2Te3

Hirahara, T.; Kimura, S-i.; Hasegawa, S.; Yamada, M.; Bihlmayer, G.; Miyazaki, H.; Blügel, S.; Sakamoto, Y.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.166801

Journal Article

Interfacing 2D and 3D topological insulators: Bi(111) bilayer on Bi2Te3

Hirahara, T. ; Bihlmayer, G.FZJ* ; Sakamoto, Y. ; Yamada, M. ; Miyazaki, H. ; Kimura, S.-i. ; Blügel, S.FZJ* ; Hasegawa, S.

2011
APS College Park, Md.

Physical review letters 107, 166801 (2011) [10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.166801]

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Abstract: We report the formation of a bilayer Bi(111) ultrathin film, which is theoretically predicted to be in a two-dimensional quantum spin Hall state, on a Bi2Te3 substrate. From angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy measurements and ab initio calculations, the electronic structure of the system can be understood as an overlap of the band dispersions of bilayer Bi and Bi2Te3. Our results show that the Dirac cone is actually robust against nonmagnetic perturbations and imply a unique situation where the topologically protected one- and two-dimensional edge states are coexisting at the surface.

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Physics, Multidisciplinary

Note: Shuichi Murakami is greatly acknowledged for his valuable comments. This work has been supported by Grants-In-Aid from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (No. 22656011 and No. 23686007). The ARPES experiments were performed under Proposal No. UVSOR 22-521.

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