Dirac materials

TO Wehling, AM Black-Schaffer… - Advances in Physics, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
A wide range of materials, like d-wave superconductors, graphene, and topological
insulators, share a fundamental similarity: their low-energy fermionic excitations behave as …

Direct observation of the transition from indirect to direct bandgap in atomically thin epitaxial MoSe2

Y Zhang, TR Chang, B Zhou, YT Cui, H Yan… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Quantum systems in confined geometries are host to novel physical phenomena. Examples
include quantum Hall systems in semiconductors and Dirac electrons in graphene. Interest …

Scale-invariant quantum anomalous Hall effect in magnetic topological insulators beyond the two-dimensional limit

X Kou, ST Guo, Y Fan, L Pan, M Lang, Y Jiang, Q Shao… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
We investigate the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) and related chiral transport in the
millimeter-size (Cr 0.12 Bi 0.26 Sb 0.62) 2 Te 3 films. With high sample quality and robust …

Redox control and high conductivity of nickel bis (dithiolene) complex π-nanosheet: a potential organic two-dimensional topological insulator

T Kambe, R Sakamoto, T Kusamoto, T Pal… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
A bulk material comprising stacked nanosheets of nickel bis (dithiolene) complexes is
investigated. The average oxidation number is− 3/4 for each complex unit in the as-prepared …

[HTML][HTML] Tuning Dirac states by strain in the topological insulator Bi2Se3

Y Liu, YY Li, S Rajput, D Gilks, L Lari, PL Galindo… - Nature Physics, 2014 - nature.com
Three-dimensional Bi-chalcogenide topological insulators exhibit surface states populated
by massless Dirac fermions that are topologically protected from disorder scattering. Here …

Electrical Detection of Spin-Polarized Surface States Conduction in (Bi0.53Sb0.47)2Te3 Topological Insulator

J Tang, LT Chang, X Kou, K Murata, ES Choi… - Nano …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Strong spin–orbit interaction and time-reversal symmetry in topological insulators enable the
spin-momentum locking for the helical surface states. To date, however, there has been little …

Momentum-space imaging of Cooper pairing in a half-Dirac-gas topological superconductor

SY Xu, N Alidoust, I Belopolski, A Richardella, C Liu… - Nature Physics, 2014 - nature.com
Superconductivity involving topological Dirac electrons has recently been proposed as a
platform between concepts in high-energy and condensed-matter physics. It has been …

Ferroelectric Order Control of the Dirac-Semimetal Phase in GeTe-Sb 2 Te 3 Superlattices

J Tominaga, AV Kolobov, P Fons, T Nakano… - Advanced Materials …, 2014 - elibrary.ru
A superlattice made of a topological insulator (Sb2Te3) and a normal insulator (ferroelectric
GeTe), also called an interfacial phase‐change material, are switched between the Dirac …

Efficient nonlinear generation of THz plasmons in graphene and topological insulators

X Yao, M Tokman, A Belyanin - Physical review letters, 2014 - APS
Surface plasmons in graphene may provide an attractive alternative to noble-metal
plasmons due to their tighter confinement, peculiar dispersion, and longer propagation …

[HTML][HTML] Observation of quantum-tunnelling-modulated spin texture in ultrathin topological insulator Bi2Se3 films

M Neupane, A Richardella, J Sánchez-Barriga… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Understanding the spin-texture behaviour of boundary modes in ultrathin topological
insulator films is critically essential for the design and fabrication of functional nanodevices …