Campus Units
Physics and Astronomy, Ames Laboratory
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Submitted Manuscript
Publication Date
2020
Journal or Book Title
arXiv
Abstract
Time reversal symmetric (TRS) invariant topological insulators (TIs) fullfil a paradigmatic role in the field of topological materials, standing at the origin of its development. Apart from TRS protected 'strong' TIs, it was realized early on that more confounding weak topological insulators (WTI) exist. WTIs depend on translational symmetry and exhibit topological surface states only in certain directions making it significantly more difficult to match the experimental success of strong TIs. We here report on the discovery of a WTI state in RhBi2 that belongs to the optimal space group P1, which is the only space group where symmetry indicated eigenvalues enumerate all possible invariants due to absence of additional constraining crystalline symmetries. Our ARPES, DFT calculations, and effective model reveal topological surface states with saddle points that are located in the vicinity of a Dirac point resulting in a van Hove singularity (VHS) along the (100) direction close to the Fermi energy. Due to the combination of exotic features, this material offers great potential as a material platform for novel quantum effects.
Copyright Owner
The Author(s)
Copyright Date
2020
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Lee, Kyungchan; Lange, Gunnar F.; Wang, Lin-Lin; Kuthanazhi, Brinda; Trevisan, Thais V.; Jo, Na Hyun; Schrunk, Benjamin; Orth, Peter P.; Slager, Robert-Jan; Canfield, Paul C.; and Kaminski, Adam, "Discovery of a weak topological insulating state and van Hove singularity in triclinic RhBi2" (2020). Physics and Astronomy Publications. 715.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/physastro_pubs/715
Comments
This is a pre-print of the article Lee, Kyungchan, Gunnar F. Lange, Lin-Lin Wang, Brinda Kuthanazhi, Thais V. Trevisan, Na Hyun Jo, Benjamin Schrunk et al. "Discovery of a weak topological insulating state and van Hove singularity in triclinic RhBi2." arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.12502 (2020). Posted with permission.