Nature Communications (May 2020)

Switching of band inversion and topological surface states by charge density wave

  • N. Mitsuishi,
  • Y. Sugita,
  • M. S. Bahramy,
  • M. Kamitani,
  • T. Sonobe,
  • M. Sakano,
  • T. Shimojima,
  • H. Takahashi,
  • H. Sakai,
  • K. Horiba,
  • H. Kumigashira,
  • K. Taguchi,
  • K. Miyamoto,
  • T. Okuda,
  • S. Ishiwata,
  • Y. Motome,
  • K. Ishizaka

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16290-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Manipulating topological states by coupled electronic orders is promising for future dissipation-less electronic devices. Here, Mitsuishi et al. report selective vanishing of Dirac-type topological surface states by the formation of coupled charge density wave in a transition-metal dichalcogenide VTe2.