Discovery of several large families of Topological Insulator classes with backscattering-suppressed spin-polarized single-Dirac-cone on the surface

Details Discovery of several large families of Topological Insulator classes with backscattering-suppressed spin-polarized single-Dirac-cone on the surface Discovery of several large families of Topological Insulator classes with backscattering-suppressed spin-polarized single-Dirac-cone on the surface

2010-07-29

arxiv.org/abs/1007.5111v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

11 pages, 4 Figures

Scientific paper

Three dimensional (3D) topological insulators are novel states of quantum matter that feature spin-momentum locked helical Dirac fermions on their surfaces and hold promise to open new vistas in spintronics, quantum computing and fundamental physics. Experimental realization of many of the predicted topological phenomena requires finding multi-variant topological band insulators which can be multiply connected to magnetic semiconductors and superconductors. Here we present our theoretical prediction and experimental discovery of several new topological insulator classes in AB2X4(124), A2B2X5(225), MN4X7(147), A2X2X'(221) [A,B=Pb,Ge,Sb,Bi and M,N=Pb,Bi and X,X'=Chalcogen family]. We observe that these materials feature gaps up to about 0.35eV. Multi-variant nature allows for diverse surface dispersion tunability, Fermi surface spin-vortex or textured configurations and spin-dependent electronic interference signaling novel quantum transport processes on the surfaces of these materials. Our discovery also provides several new platforms to search for topological-superconductivity (arXiv:0912.3341v1 (2009)) in these exotic materials.

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