TY - JOUR
AU - Nabok, Dmytro
AU - Tas, Murat
AU - Kusaka, Shotaro
AU - Durgun, Engin
AU - Friedrich, Christoph
AU - Bihlmayer, Gustav
AU - Blügel, Stefan
AU - Hirahara, Toru
AU - Aguilera, Irene
TI - Bulk and surface electronic structure of Bi 4 Te 3 from G W calculations and photoemission experiments
JO - Physical review materials
VL - 6
IS - 3
SN - 2475-9953
CY - College Park, MD
PB - APS
M1 - FZJ-2022-01930
SP - 034204
PY - 2022
AB - We present a combined theoretical and experimental study of the electronic structure of stoichiometric Bi4Te3, a natural superlattice of alternating Bi2Te3 quintuple layers and Bi bilayers. In contrast to the related semiconducting compounds Bi2Te3 and Bi1Te1, density functional theory predicts Bi4Te3 is a semimetal. In this work, we compute the quasiparticle electronic structure of Bi4Te3 in the framework of the GW approximation within many-body perturbation theory. The quasiparticle corrections are found to modify the dispersion of the valence and conduction bands in the vicinity of the Fermi energy, leading to the opening of a small indirect band gap. Based on the analysis of the eigenstates, Bi4Te3 is classified as a dual topological insulator with bulk topological invariants Z2 (1;111) and magnetic mirror Chern number nM=1. The bulk GW results are used to build a Wannier-function-based tight-binding Hamiltonian that is further applied to study the electronic properties of the (111) surface. The comparison with our angle-resolved photoemission measurements shows excellent agreement between the computed and measured surface states and indicates the dual topological nature of Bi4Te3.
LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000779841200005
DO - DOI:10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.6.034204
UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/907268
ER -