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Title: Emergence of topological and trivial interface states in VSe2 films coupled to Bi2Se3

Abstract

Coupling ordinary metals with topological Bi2Se3 can instigate the long-range migration of the spin-polarized Dirac states. Instead, for trivial metallic VSe2 films on Bi2Se3, topological and trivial Rashba-type interface states emerge, each strongly localized at the VSe2/Bi2Se3 interface. Their rapidly decaying spectral weights are uncovered by thickness-dependent band mappings of VSe2 films and replicated by a phenomenological first-principles model of the spectral function. In this work, the results are pertinent to spintronic devices requiring spin transmission across metal/topological insulator interfaces.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [2];  [3]; ORCiD logo [4];  [1];  [1]; ORCiD logo [5]; ORCiD logo [1]
  1. Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
  2. Academia Sinica, Taipei (Taiwan); National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Taipei (Taiwan)
  3. Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States); National Central Univ., Taoyuan (Taiwan)
  4. Academia Sinica, Taipei (Taiwan)
  5. Academia Sinica, Taipei (Taiwan); National Taiwan Univ., Taipei (Taiwan)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan
OSTI Identifier:
1867374
Grant/Contract Number:  
FG02-07ER46383; 110-2124-M-002-012; MOST 110-2112-M- 008-039-MY3
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review. B
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 105; Journal Issue: 19; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; bismuth selenide; topological interface states; trivial metals; heterostructure; molecular beam epitaxy; spectral function

Citation Formats

Hlevyack, Joseph Andrew, Chan, Yang-Hao, Lin, Meng-Kai, He, Tao, Peng, Wei-Hsiang, Royal, Ellen Claire, Chou, Mei-Yin, and Chiang, Tai-Chang. Emergence of topological and trivial interface states in VSe2 films coupled to Bi2Se3. United States: N. p., 2022. Web. doi:10.1103/physrevb.105.195119.
Hlevyack, Joseph Andrew, Chan, Yang-Hao, Lin, Meng-Kai, He, Tao, Peng, Wei-Hsiang, Royal, Ellen Claire, Chou, Mei-Yin, & Chiang, Tai-Chang. Emergence of topological and trivial interface states in VSe2 films coupled to Bi2Se3. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.105.195119
Hlevyack, Joseph Andrew, Chan, Yang-Hao, Lin, Meng-Kai, He, Tao, Peng, Wei-Hsiang, Royal, Ellen Claire, Chou, Mei-Yin, and Chiang, Tai-Chang. Thu . "Emergence of topological and trivial interface states in VSe2 films coupled to Bi2Se3". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.105.195119. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1867374.
@article{osti_1867374,
title = {Emergence of topological and trivial interface states in VSe2 films coupled to Bi2Se3},
author = {Hlevyack, Joseph Andrew and Chan, Yang-Hao and Lin, Meng-Kai and He, Tao and Peng, Wei-Hsiang and Royal, Ellen Claire and Chou, Mei-Yin and Chiang, Tai-Chang},
abstractNote = {Coupling ordinary metals with topological Bi2Se3 can instigate the long-range migration of the spin-polarized Dirac states. Instead, for trivial metallic VSe2 films on Bi2Se3, topological and trivial Rashba-type interface states emerge, each strongly localized at the VSe2/Bi2Se3 interface. Their rapidly decaying spectral weights are uncovered by thickness-dependent band mappings of VSe2 films and replicated by a phenomenological first-principles model of the spectral function. In this work, the results are pertinent to spintronic devices requiring spin transmission across metal/topological insulator interfaces.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevb.105.195119},
journal = {Physical Review. B},
number = 19,
volume = 105,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu May 12 00:00:00 EDT 2022},
month = {Thu May 12 00:00:00 EDT 2022}
}

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