Tunable dirac fermion dynamics in topological insulators

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Chen, Chaoyu ^a   Xie, Zhuojin ^a   Feng, Ya ^a   Yi, Hemian ^a   Liang, Aiji ^a   He, Shaolong ^a   Mou, Daixiang ^a   He, Junfeng ^a   Peng, Yingying ^a   Liu, Xu ^a   Liu, Yan ^a   Zhao, Lin ^a   Liu, Guodong ^a   Dong, Xiaoli ^a   Zhang, Jun ^a   Yu, Li ^a   Wang, Xiaoyang ^b   Peng, Qinjun ^b   Wang, Zhimin ^b   Zhang, Shenjin ^b   Yang, Feng ^b   Chen, Chuangtian ^b   Xu, Zuyan ^b   Zhou, X J ^a   more..

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b TECHNICAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MATERIALS TESTING; QUANTUM THEORY;

BISMUTH; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MATERIALS TESTING; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84882734847     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02411     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Hasan, M. Z.&Kane, C. L. Colloquium:Topological insulators. Rev. Mod. Phys. 82, 3045-3067 (2010).
2. Moore, J. E. The birth of topological insulators. Nature 464, 194-198 (2010).
3. Qi, X. L. & Zhang, S. C. Topological insulators and superconductors. Rev. Mod. Phys. 83, 1057-1110 (2011).
4. Qi, X. L. & Zhang, S. C. The quantum spin Hall effect and topological insulators. Phys. Today 63, 33-38 (2010).
5. Moore, J. Topological insulators the next generation. Nat. Phys. 5, 378-380 (2009).
6. Bernevig, B. A., Hughes, T. L. & Zhang, S. C. Quantum spin Hall effect and topological phase transition in HgTe quantum wells. Science 314, 1757-1761 (2006). (Pubitemid 44969083)
7. Qi, X. L., Hughes, T. L. & Zhang, S. C. Fractional charge and quantized current in the quantum spin Hall state. Nat. Phys. 4, 273-276 (2008).
8. Li, R. D. et al. Dynamical axion field in topological magnetic insulators. Nat. Phys. 6, 284-288 (2010).
9. Qi, X. L. et al. Inducing a magnetic monopole with topological surface states. Science 323, 1184-1187 (2009).
10. Fu, L. & Kane, C. L. Superconducting proximity effect and Majorana fermions at the surface of a topological insulator. Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 096407 (2008).
11. Fu, L. & Berg, E. Odd-parity topological superconductors: theory and application to CuxBi2Se3. Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 097001 (2010).
12. Yu, R. et al. Quantized anomalous Hall effect in magnetic topological insulators. Science 329, 61-64 (2010).
13. Konig, M. et al. Quantum spin hall insulator state in HgTe quantum wells. Science 318, 766-770 (2007). (Pubitemid 351411764)
14. Brune, C. et al. Quantum Hall effect from the topological surface states of strained bulk HgTe. Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 126803 (2011).
15. Fu, L., Kane, C. L. & Mele, E. J. Topological insulators in three dimensions. Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 106803 (2007).
16. Zhang, H. J. et al. Topological insulators in Bi2Se3, Bi2Te3 and Sb2Te3 with a single Dirac cone on the surface. Nat. Phys. 5, 438-442 (2009).
17. Xia, Y. et al. Observation of a large-gap topological-insulator class with a single Dirac cone on the surface. Nat. Phys. 5, 398-402 (2009).
18. Chen, Y. L. et al. Experimental realization of a three-dimensional topological insulator, Bi2Te3. Science 325, 178-181 (2009).
19. Qu, D. X. et al. Quantum oscillations and Hall anomaly of surface states in the topological insulator Bi2Te3. Science 329, 821-824 (2010).
20. Butch, N. P. et al. Strong surface scattering in ultrahigh-mobility Bi2Se3 topological insulator crystals. Phys. Rev. B 81, 241301 (2010).
21. Taskin, A. A. et al. Observation of Dirac holes and electrons in a topological insulator. Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 016801 (2011).
22. Analytis, J. G. et al. Two-dimensional surface state in the quantum limit of a topological insulator. Nat. Phys. 6, 960-964 (2010).
23. Ren, Z. et al. Observations of two-dimensional quantum oscillations and ambipolar transport in the topological insulator Bi2Se3 achieved by Cd doping. Phys. Rev. B 84, 075316 (2011).
24. Hor, Y. S. et al. p-type Bi2Se3 for topological insulator and low-temperature thermoelectric applications. Phys. Rev. B 79, 195208 (2009).
25. Chen, C. Y. et al. Robustness of topological order and formation of quantum well states in topological insulators exposed to ambient environment. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 109, 3694-3698 (2012).
26. Kim, D. et al. Intrinsic electron-phonon resistivity of Bi2Se3 in the topological regime. Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 166801 (2012).
27. Novoselov, K. S. et al. Two-dimensional gas of massless Dirac fermions in graphene. Nature 438, 197-200 (2005). (Pubitemid 41599867)
28. Zhang, Y. B. et al. Experimental observation of the quantum Hall effect and Berry's phase in graphene. Nature 438, 201-204 (2005).
29. Bolotin, K. I. et al. Ultrahigh electron mobility in suspended graphene. Solid State Commun. 146, 351-355 (2008).
30. Grimvall, G. The Electron-Phonon Interction in Metals. (North-Holland, 1981).
31. Damascelli, A., Hussain, Z. & Shen, Z. X. Angle-resolved photoemission studies of the cuprate superconductors. Rev. Mod. Phys. 75, 473-541 (2003). (Pubitemid 36737414)
32. Zhou, X. J., Cuk, T., Devereaux, T., Nagaosa, N. & Shen, Z. X. Handbook of High Temperature Superconductivity, edited by Schrieffer, J. R. (Springer, Berlin, 2006), Chap. 3.
33. Hatch, R. C. et al. Stability of the Bi2Se3 (111) topological state: Electron-phonon and electron-defect scattering. Phys. Rev. B 83, 241303 (2011).
34. Pan, Z. H. et al.Measurement of an exceptionally weak electron-phonon coupling on the surface of the topological insulator Bi2Se3 using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 187001 (2012).
35. Zhu, X. T. et al. Interaction of phonons and Dirac fermions on the surface of Bi2Se3: a strong kohn anomaly. Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 186102 (2011).
36. Liu, G. D. et al. Development of a vacuum ultraviolet laser-based angle-resolved photoemission system with a superhigh energy resolution better than 1 meV. Rev. Sci. Instrum. 79, 023105 (2008).
37. Valla, T., Fedorov, A. V., Johnson, P. D. & Hulbert, S. L. Many-body effects in angle-resolved photoemission: quasiparticle energy and lifetime of a Mo(110) surface state. Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2085 (1999).
38. LaShell, S., Jensen, E. & Balasubramanian, T. Nonquasiparticle structure in the photoemission spectra from the Be(0001) surface and determination of the electron self energy. Phys. Rev. B 61, 2371 (2000).
39. Cheng, W. & Ren, S. F. Phonons of single quintuple Bi2Te3 and Bi2Se3 films and bulk materials. Phys. Rev. B 83, 094301 (2011).
40. Richter, W. & Becker, C. R. A Raman and far-infrared investigation of phonons in the rhombohedral V2-VI3 compounds Bi2Te3, Bi2Se3, Sb2Te3 and Bi2(Te12xSex)3 (0 < x < 1), (Bi12ySby)2Te3 (0 < y < 1). Phys. Stat. Sol. (b) 84, 619-628 (1977).
41. Huang, G. Q. Surface lattice vibration and electron-phonon interaction in topological insulator Bi2Te3 (111) films from first principles. EPL 100, 17001 (2012).