Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

Design and realization of topological Dirac fermions on a triangular lattice

  • Maximilian Bauernfeind,
  • Jonas Erhardt,
  • Philipp Eck,
  • Pardeep K. Thakur,
  • Judith Gabel,
  • Tien-Lin Lee,
  • Jörg Schäfer,
  • Simon Moser,
  • Domenico Di Sante,
  • Ralph Claessen,
  • Giorgio Sangiovanni

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25627-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Atomic monolayers of large-gap quantum spin Hall insulators are challenging to synthesize. Here, the authors realize massive Dirac fermions emerging from Bloch wave-function interference on a triangular lattice and achieve topologically non-trivial domains with unprecedented spatial extension.