Disorder enabled band structure engineering of a topological insulator surface

Xu, Yishuai; Chiu, Janet; Miao, Lin; He, Haowei; Alpichshev, Zhanybek; Kapitulnik, A.; Biswas, Rudro R.; Wray, L. Andrew

doi:10.1038/ncomms14081

Title: Disorder enabled band structure engineering of a topological insulator surface

Journal Article · Fri Feb 03 00:00:00 EST 2017 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14081· OSTI ID:1347555

Xu, Yishuai ^[1]; Chiu, Janet ^[1]; Miao, Lin ^[2]; He, Haowei ^[1]; Alpichshev, Zhanybek ^[3]; Kapitulnik, A. ^[4]; Biswas, Rudro R. ^[5]; Wray, L. Andrew ^[6]

New York Univ., New York, NY (United States)
New York Univ., New York, NY (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States)
Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States)
Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)
New York Univ., New York, NY (United States); NYU-ECNU Institute of Physics at NYU Shanghai, Shanghai (China)

© The Author(s) 2017. Three-dimensional topological insulators are bulk insulators with Z 2 topological electronic order that gives rise to conducting light-like surface states. These surface electrons are exceptionally resistant to localization by non-magnetic disorder, and have been adopted as the basis for a wide range of proposals to achieve new quasiparticle species and device functionality. Recent studies have yielded a surprise by showing that in spite of resisting localization, topological insulator surface electrons can be reshaped by defects into distinctive resonance states. Here we use numerical simulations and scanning tunnelling microscopy data to show that these resonance states have significance well beyond the localized regime usually associated with impurity bands. At native densities in the model Bi 2 X 3 (X=Bi, Te) compounds, defect resonance states are predicted to generate a new quantum basis for an emergent electron gas that supports diffusive electrical transport.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515; AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1347555

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Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Vol. 8; ISSN 2041-1723

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