Elemental Topological Dirac Semimetal: α -Sn on InSb(111)

Xu, Cai-Zhi; Chan, Yang-Hao; Chen, Yige; Chen, Peng; Wang, Xiaoxiong; Dejoie, Catherine; Wong, Man-Hong; Hlevyack, Joseph Andrew; Ryu, Hyejin; Kee, Hae-Young; Tamura, Nobumichi; Chou, Mei-Yin; Hussain, Zahid; Mo, Sung-Kwan; Chiang, Tai-Chang

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.146402

Title: Elemental Topological Dirac Semimetal: $α$ -Sn on InSb(111)

Journal Article · Tue Apr 04 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.146402· OSTI ID:1379797

Xu, Cai-Zhi ^[1]; Chan, Yang-Hao ^[2]; Chen, Yige ^[3]; Chen, Peng ^[1]; Wang, Xiaoxiong ^[4]; Dejoie, Catherine ^[5]; Wong, Man-Hong ^[6]; Hlevyack, Joseph Andrew ^[6]; Ryu, Hyejin ^[7]; Kee, Hae-Young ^[3]; Tamura, Nobumichi ^[7]; Chou, Mei-Yin ^[8]; Hussain, Zahid ^[7]; Mo, Sung-Kwan ^[7]; Chiang, Tai-Chang ^[9]

Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States). Dept. of Physics, Frederick Seitz Materials Research Lab.; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Advanced Light Source
Inst. of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Taipei (Taiwan)
Univ. of Toronto, ON (Canada). Dept. of Physics
Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States). Dept. of Physics, Frederick Seitz Materials Research Lab.; Univ. of Science and Technology, Nanjing (China). College of Science
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble (France). Structure of Materials Group
Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States). Dept. of Physics, Frederick Seitz Materials Research Lab.
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Advanced Light Source
Inst. of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Taipei (Taiwan); Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States). School of Physics; National Taiwan Univ., Taipei (Taiwan). Dept. of Physics
Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States). Dept. of Physics, Frederick Seitz Materials Research Lab.; National Taiwan Univ., Taipei (Taiwan). Dept. of Physics

Three-dimensional (3D) topological Dirac semimetals (TDSs) are rare but important as a versatile platform for exploring exotic electronic properties and topological phase transitions. A quintessential feature of TDSs is 3D Dirac fermions associated with bulk electronic states near the Fermi level. We have observed such bulk Dirac cones in epitaxially grown α-Sn films on InSb(111), the first such TDS system realized in an elemental form, using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. First-principles calculations confirm that epitaxial strain is key to the formation of the TDS phase. A phase diagram is established that connects the 3D TDS phase through a singular point of a zero-gap semimetal phase to a topological insulator phase. The nature of the Dirac cone crosses over from 3D to 2D as the film thickness is reduced.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231; FG02-97ER45632; FG02-07ER46383

OSTI ID:: 1379797

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1349973

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 118, Issue 14; ISSN 0031-9007

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