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    Observation of topological crystalline insulator surface states on (111)-oriented Pb1xSnxSe films

    C. M. Polley1,*, P. Dziawa2, A. Reszka2, A. Szczerbakow2, R. Minikayev2, J. Z. Domagala2, S. Safaei2, P. Kacman2, R. Buczko2 et al.

    J. Adell1, M. H. Berntsen3,†, B. M. Wojek3, O. Tjernberg3, B. J. Kowalski2, T. Story2, and T. Balasubramanian1

    • 1MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University, 221 00 Lund, Sweden
    • 2Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland
    • 3KTH Royal Institute of Technology, ICT Materials Physics, Electrum 229, 164 40 Kista, Sweden
    • *craig.polley@maxlab.lu.se
    • Present address: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Photon Science, Coherent X-ray Scattering, Notkestrasse 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany.

    Phys. Rev. B 89, 075317 – Published 28 February, 2014

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.89.075317

    Abstract

    We present angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy measurements of the surface states on in-situ grown (111) oriented films of Pb1xSnxSe, a three-dimensional topological crystalline insulator. We observe surface states with Dirac-like dispersion at Γ¯ and M¯ in the surface Brillouin zone, supporting recent theoretical predictions for this family of materials. We study the parallel dispersion isotropy and Dirac-point binding energy of the surface states, and perform tight-binding calculations to support our findings. The relative simplicity of the growth technique is encouraging, and suggests a clear path for future investigations into the role of strain, vicinality, and alternative surface orientations in (Pb,Sn)Se solid solutions.

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