TY - JOUR
AU - Momida, Hiroyoshi
AU - Bihlmayer, Gustav
AU - Blügel, Stefan
AU - Segawa, Kouji
AU - Ando, Yoichi
AU - Oguchi, Tamio
TI - Topological interface states in the natural heterostructure (PbSe) 5 ( Bi 2 Se 3 ) 6 with Bi Pb defects
JO - Physical review / B
VL - 97
IS - 3
SN - 2469-9950
CY - Woodbury, NY
PB - Inst.
M1 - FZJ-2018-00310
SP - 035113
PY - 2018
AB - We study theoretically the electronic band structure of (PbSe)5(Bi2Se3)6, which consists of an ordinary insulator PbSe and a topological insulator Bi2Se3. The first-principles calculations show that this material has a gapped Dirac-cone energy dispersion inside the bulk, which originates from the topological states of Bi2Se3 layers encapsulated by PbSe layers. Furthermore, we calculate the band structures of (BixPb1−xSe)5(Bi2Se3)6 with BiPb antisite defects included in the PbSe layers. The result shows that a high density of BiPb defects can exist in real materials, consistent with the experimentally estimated x of more than 30%. The BiPb defects strongly modify the band alignment between Bi2Se3 and PbSe layers, while the topological interface states of Bi2Se3 are kept as a gapped Dirac-cone-like dispersion.
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DO - DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.97.035113
UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/842026
ER -