Surface phonon propagation in topological insulators

Details Surface phonon propagation in topological insulators Surface phonon propagation in topological insulators

2011-01-28

arxiv.org/abs/1101.5572v1

Phys. Rev. B 83, 125314 (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

6 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. B

Scientific paper

The effect of helical Dirac states on surface phonons in a topological insulators is investigated. Their coupling is derived in the continuum limit by assuming displacement dependent Dirac cones. The resulting renormalisation of sound velocity and attenuation and its dependence on chemical potential and wave vector is calculated. At finite wave vectors a Kohn anomaly in the renormalized phonon frequency is caused by intraband-transitions. It appears at wave vectors q<2k_F due to a lack of backscattering for helical Dirac electrons. The wave vector and chemical potential dependence of this anomaly is calculated.

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