Discovery of a weak topological insulating state and van Hove singularity in triclinic RhBi2

Weak topological insulators (WTI) remain difficult to be observed in experiments. Here, the authors discover a WTI state in RhBi2, where the topological surface states with saddle points result in a van Hove singularity along the (100) direction near Fermi energy.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kyungchan Lee, Gunnar F. Lange, Lin-Lin Wang, Brinda Kuthanazhi, Thaís V. Trevisan, Na Hyun Jo, Benjamin Schrunk, Peter P. Orth, Robert-Jan Slager, Paul C. Canfield, Adam Kaminski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22136-w