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Observation of a Topological Insulator Dirac Cone Reshaped by Non-magnetic Impurity Resonance

苗霖,纽约大学博士后研究员
Mon, 2018-01-22 10:00 - 11:00
李政道图书馆4楼410报告厅

The helical Dirac cone states on the surface of topological insulator (TI) are thought to be insensitive to weak, non-magnetic disorder. Recently, theoretical modeling has shown that, without violating the time reversal symmetry, randomly distributed point defects/impurities of a crystal lattice can give rise to resonance states that greatly change the Dirac surface state dispersions and the physical nature of the low-energy quasiparticles. In this talk, I will present our linear dichroic angular resolved photoemission spectroscopy (LD-ARPES) study on disorder-enriched Bi2Se3. The LD-ARPES spectra reveal a large anomalous kink-like feature in the Dirac cone dispersion, which matches the predicted signature of coherent hybridization with an impurity resonance. The dispersion anomaly is found to be associated with a DOS peak, and both features are progressively attenuated when successive low temperature annealing is applied to reduce disorder. The experimental observation of these features, which closely resemble theoretical predictions, clarifies the interplay between a topological Dirac cone and the point-defect disorder common in applied systems.

苗霖,纽约大学博士后研究员。2010年和2015年于上海交通大学物理与天文系获得学士和博士学位。2015年起在纽约大学物理系做博士后研究员,其中2015年至2017年为劳伦斯伯克利国家实验室联合博士后。主要利用同步辐射谱学(如ARPES和RIXS)研究凝聚态物理中的各种新奇量子现象。