Imaging electronic states on topological semimetals using scanning tunneling microscopy
Abstract
Following the intense studies on topological insulators, significant efforts have recently been devoted to the search for gapless topological systems. These materials not only broaden the topological classification of matter but also provide a condensed matter realization of various relativistic particles and phenomena previously discussed mainly in high energy physics. Weyl semimetals host massless, chiral, low-energy excitations in the bulk electronic band structure, whereas a symmetry protected pair of Weyl fermions gives rise to massless Dirac fermions.Weemployed scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy to explore the behavior of electronic states both on the surface and in the bulk of topological semimetal phases. By mapping the quasiparticle interference (QPI) and emerging Landau levels at high magnetic field in Dirac semimetals Cd3As2 and Na3Bi, we observed extended Dirac-like bulk electronic bands. QPI imaged on Weyl semimetal TaAs demonstrated the predicted momentum dependent delocalization of Fermi arc surface states in the vicinity of the surface projected Weyl nodes.
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- Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States); Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Office of Secretary of Energy (S)
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- 1329265
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- OSTI ID: 1329266; OSTI ID: 1374812
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- FG02-05ER46200; SC0011978; SC0016239
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- Published Article
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- New Journal of Physics
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- Journal Name: New Journal of Physics Journal Volume: 18 Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 1367-2630
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- IOP Publishing
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- United Kingdom
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; topological semimetals; scanning tunneling spectroscopy; quasiparticle interference; Landau level spectroscopy
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Gyenis, András, Inoue, Hiroyuki, Jeon, Sangjun, Zhou, Brian B., Feldman, Benjamin E., Wang, Zhijun, Li, Jian, Jiang, Shan, Gibson, Quinn D., Kushwaha, Satya K., Krizan, Jason W., Ni, Ni, Cava, Robert J., Bernevig, B. Andrei, and Yazdani, Ali. Imaging electronic states on topological semimetals using scanning tunneling microscopy. United Kingdom: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1088/1367-2630/18/10/105003.
Gyenis, András, Inoue, Hiroyuki, Jeon, Sangjun, Zhou, Brian B., Feldman, Benjamin E., Wang, Zhijun, Li, Jian, Jiang, Shan, Gibson, Quinn D., Kushwaha, Satya K., Krizan, Jason W., Ni, Ni, Cava, Robert J., Bernevig, B. Andrei, & Yazdani, Ali. Imaging electronic states on topological semimetals using scanning tunneling microscopy. United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/18/10/105003
Gyenis, András, Inoue, Hiroyuki, Jeon, Sangjun, Zhou, Brian B., Feldman, Benjamin E., Wang, Zhijun, Li, Jian, Jiang, Shan, Gibson, Quinn D., Kushwaha, Satya K., Krizan, Jason W., Ni, Ni, Cava, Robert J., Bernevig, B. Andrei, and Yazdani, Ali. Sat .
"Imaging electronic states on topological semimetals using scanning tunneling microscopy". United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/18/10/105003.
@article{osti_1329265,
title = {Imaging electronic states on topological semimetals using scanning tunneling microscopy},
author = {Gyenis, András and Inoue, Hiroyuki and Jeon, Sangjun and Zhou, Brian B. and Feldman, Benjamin E. and Wang, Zhijun and Li, Jian and Jiang, Shan and Gibson, Quinn D. and Kushwaha, Satya K. and Krizan, Jason W. and Ni, Ni and Cava, Robert J. and Bernevig, B. Andrei and Yazdani, Ali},
abstractNote = {Following the intense studies on topological insulators, significant efforts have recently been devoted to the search for gapless topological systems. These materials not only broaden the topological classification of matter but also provide a condensed matter realization of various relativistic particles and phenomena previously discussed mainly in high energy physics. Weyl semimetals host massless, chiral, low-energy excitations in the bulk electronic band structure, whereas a symmetry protected pair of Weyl fermions gives rise to massless Dirac fermions.Weemployed scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy to explore the behavior of electronic states both on the surface and in the bulk of topological semimetal phases. By mapping the quasiparticle interference (QPI) and emerging Landau levels at high magnetic field in Dirac semimetals Cd3As2 and Na3Bi, we observed extended Dirac-like bulk electronic bands. QPI imaged on Weyl semimetal TaAs demonstrated the predicted momentum dependent delocalization of Fermi arc surface states in the vicinity of the surface projected Weyl nodes.},
doi = {10.1088/1367-2630/18/10/105003},
journal = {New Journal of Physics},
number = 10,
volume = 18,
place = {United Kingdom},
year = {Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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