Hexagonal Warping Effects in the Surface States of Topological Insulator Bi$_2$Te$_3$

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2009-08-10

arxiv.org/abs/0908.1418v3

Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 266801 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

4 pages, 3 figures, published version

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A single two-dimensinoal Dirac fermion state has been recently observed on the surface of topological insulator Bi$_2$Te$_3$ by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES). We study the surface band structure using $k \cdot p$ theory and find an unconventional hexagonal warping term, which is the counterpart of cubic Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling in rhombohedral structures. We show that this hexagonal warping term naturally explains the observed hexagonal snow-flake Fermi surface. The strength of hexagonal warping is characterized by a single parameter, which is extracted from the size of the Fermi surface. We predict a number of testable signatures of hexagonal warping in spectroscopy experiments on Bi$_2$Te$_3$. We also explore the possibility of a spin-density wave due to strong nesting of the Fermi surface.

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