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_id: '978'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: The newly discovered topological crystalline insulators feature a complex
band structure involving multiple Dirac cones, and are potentially highly tunable
by external electric field, temperature or strain. Theoretically, it has been
predicted that the various Dirac cones, which are offset in energy and momentum,
might harbour vastly different orbital character. However, their orbital texture,
which is of immense importance in determining a variety of a materialâ €™ s properties
remains elusive. Here, we unveil the orbital texture of Pb 1â ̂'x Sn x Se, a prototypical
topological crystalline insulator. By using Fourier-transform scanning tunnelling
spectroscopy we measure the interference patterns produced by the scattering of
surface-state electrons. We discover that the intensity and energy dependences
of the Fourier transforms show distinct characteristics, which can be directly
attributed to orbital effects. Our experiments reveal a complex band topology
involving two Lifshitz transitions and establish the orbital nature of the Dirac
bands, which could provide an alternative pathway towards future quantum applications.
acknowledgement: V.M. gratefully acknowledges funding from the US Department of Energy,
Scanned Probe Division under Award Number DE-FG02-12ER46880 for the primary support
of I.Z. and Y.O. (experiments, data analysis and writing the paper) and NSF-ECCS-1232105
for the partial support of W.Z. and D.W. (data acquisition). Work at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology is supported by US Department of Energy, Office of Basic
Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering under Award DE-SC0010526
(L.F.), and NSF DMR 1104498 (M.S.). H.L. acknowledges the Singapore National Research
Foundation for support under NRF Award No. NRF-NRFF2013-03. The work at Northeastern
University is supported by the US Department of Energy grant number DE-FG02-07ER46352,
and benefited from Northeastern University’s Advanced Scientific Computation Center
(ASCC), theory support at the Advanced Light Source, Berkeley and the allocation
of time at the NERSC supercomputing centre through DOE grant number DE-AC02-05CH11231.
W-F.T. and C-Y.H. were supported by the NSC in Taiwan under Grant No. 102-2112-M-110-009.
W-F.T. also thanks C. Fang for useful discussions. Work at Princeton University
is supported by the US National Science Foundation Grant, NSF-DMR-1006492. F.C.
acknowledges the support provided by MOST-Taiwan under project number NSC-102-2119-M-002-004.
author:
- first_name: Ilija
full_name: Zeljkovic, Ilija
last_name: Zeljkovic
- first_name: Yoshinori
full_name: Okada, Yoshinori
last_name: Okada
- first_name: Chengyi
full_name: Huang, Chengyi
last_name: Huang
- first_name: Raman
full_name: Sankar, Raman
last_name: Sankar
- first_name: Daniel
full_name: Walkup, Daniel
last_name: Walkup
- first_name: Wenwen
full_name: Zhou, Wenwen
last_name: Zhou
- first_name: Maksym
full_name: Maksym Serbyn
id: 47809E7E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Serbyn
orcid: 0000-0002-2399-5827
- first_name: Fangcheng
full_name: Chou, Fangcheng
last_name: Chou
- first_name: Wei
full_name: Tsai, Wei-Feng
last_name: Tsai
- first_name: Hsin
full_name: Lin, Hsin
last_name: Lin
- first_name: Arun
full_name: Bansil, Arun
last_name: Bansil
- first_name: Liang
full_name: Fu, Liang
last_name: Fu
- first_name: Md
full_name: Hasan, Md Z
last_name: Hasan
- first_name: Vidya
full_name: Madhavan, Vidya
last_name: Madhavan
citation:
ama: Zeljkovic I, Okada Y, Huang C, et al. Mapping the unconventional orbital texture
in topological crystalline insulators. Nature Physics. 2014;10(8):572-577.
doi:10.1038/nphys3012
apa: Zeljkovic, I., Okada, Y., Huang, C., Sankar, R., Walkup, D., Zhou, W., … Madhavan,
V. (2014). Mapping the unconventional orbital texture in topological crystalline
insulators. Nature Physics. Nature Publishing Group. https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3012
chicago: Zeljkovic, Ilija, Yoshinori Okada, Chengyi Huang, Raman Sankar, Daniel
Walkup, Wenwen Zhou, Maksym Serbyn, et al. “Mapping the Unconventional Orbital
Texture in Topological Crystalline Insulators.” Nature Physics. Nature
Publishing Group, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3012.
ieee: I. Zeljkovic et al., “Mapping the unconventional orbital texture in
topological crystalline insulators,” Nature Physics, vol. 10, no. 8. Nature
Publishing Group, pp. 572–577, 2014.
ista: Zeljkovic I, Okada Y, Huang C, Sankar R, Walkup D, Zhou W, Serbyn M, Chou
F, Tsai W, Lin H, Bansil A, Fu L, Hasan M, Madhavan V. 2014. Mapping the unconventional
orbital texture in topological crystalline insulators. Nature Physics. 10(8),
572–577.
mla: Zeljkovic, Ilija, et al. “Mapping the Unconventional Orbital Texture in Topological
Crystalline Insulators.” Nature Physics, vol. 10, no. 8, Nature Publishing
Group, 2014, pp. 572–77, doi:10.1038/nphys3012.
short: I. Zeljkovic, Y. Okada, C. Huang, R. Sankar, D. Walkup, W. Zhou, M. Serbyn,
F. Chou, W. Tsai, H. Lin, A. Bansil, L. Fu, M. Hasan, V. Madhavan, Nature Physics
10 (2014) 572–577.
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:49:30Z
date_published: 2014-08-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2021-01-12T08:22:23Z
day: '01'
doi: 10.1038/nphys3012
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url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.0164
month: '08'
oa: 1
page: 572 - 577
publication: Nature Physics
publication_status: published
publisher: Nature Publishing Group
publist_id: '6423'
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status: public
title: Mapping the unconventional orbital texture in topological crystalline insulators
type: journal_article
volume: 10
year: '2014'
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