Experimental Observation of Dirac-like Surface States and Topological Phase Transition in Pb[subscript 1-x]Sn[subscript x]Te(111) Films

The surface of a topological crystalline insulator (TCI) carries an even number of Dirac cones protected by crystalline symmetry. We epitaxially grew high-quality Pb[subscript 1−x]Sn[subscript x]Te(111) films and investigated the TCI phase by in situ angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. Pb[sub...

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Main Authors: Yan, Chenhui, Liu, Junwei, Zang, Yunyi, Wang, Jianfeng, Wang, Zhenyu, Wang, Peng, Zhang, Zhi-Dong, Wang, Lili, Ma, Xucun, Ji, Shuaihua, He, Ke, Fu, Liang, Duan, Wenhui, Xue, Qi-Kun, Chen, Xi
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/88618
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8803-1017