Universal Role of Combined Symmetry for the Protection of the Dirac Cone in Antiferromagnetic Topological Insulators
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| author | Honma, Asuka Kabeya, Noriyuki Souma, Seigo Wang, Yongjian Yamauchi, Kunihiko Nakayama, Kosuke Takane, Daichi Ozawa, Kenichi Kitamura, Miho Horiba, Koji Kumigashira, Hiroshi Oguchi, Tamio Takahashi, Takashi Kimura, Noriaki Ando, Yoichi Sato, Takafumi |
| author_facet | Honma, Asuka Kabeya, Noriyuki Souma, Seigo Wang, Yongjian Yamauchi, Kunihiko Nakayama, Kosuke Takane, Daichi Ozawa, Kenichi Kitamura, Miho Horiba, Koji Kumigashira, Hiroshi Oguchi, Tamio Takahashi, Takashi Kimura, Noriaki Ando, Yoichi Sato, Takafumi |
| contents | Antiferromagnetic topological insulators (AF TIs) are predicted to exhibit exotic physical properties such as gigantic optical and topological magnetoelectric responses. While a key to achieving such phenomena relies on how to break the symmetry protecting the Dirac-cone surface state (SS) and acquire the mass of Dirac fermions, the mechanism has yet to be clarified. To address this issue, we carried out micro-focused angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy for GdBi hosting the type-II AF order, and uncovered the stripe-type 2$\times$1 reconstruction of the Fermi surface associated with the AF band folding. Intriguingly, in contrast to NdBi with the type-I AF order displaying the surface-selective Dirac-fermion mass, GdBi shows massless behavior irrespective of AF domains due to the robust topological protection. These results strongly suggest a crucial role of the ThetaTD (time-reversal and translational) symmetry to create the Dirac-fermion mass in AF TIs. |
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| spellingShingle | Universal Role of Combined Symmetry for the Protection of the Dirac Cone in Antiferromagnetic Topological Insulators Honma, Asuka Kabeya, Noriyuki Souma, Seigo Wang, Yongjian Yamauchi, Kunihiko Nakayama, Kosuke Takane, Daichi Ozawa, Kenichi Kitamura, Miho Horiba, Koji Kumigashira, Hiroshi Oguchi, Tamio Takahashi, Takashi Kimura, Noriaki Ando, Yoichi Sato, Takafumi Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Strongly Correlated Electrons Antiferromagnetic topological insulators (AF TIs) are predicted to exhibit exotic physical properties such as gigantic optical and topological magnetoelectric responses. While a key to achieving such phenomena relies on how to break the symmetry protecting the Dirac-cone surface state (SS) and acquire the mass of Dirac fermions, the mechanism has yet to be clarified. To address this issue, we carried out micro-focused angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy for GdBi hosting the type-II AF order, and uncovered the stripe-type 2$\times$1 reconstruction of the Fermi surface associated with the AF band folding. Intriguingly, in contrast to NdBi with the type-I AF order displaying the surface-selective Dirac-fermion mass, GdBi shows massless behavior irrespective of AF domains due to the robust topological protection. These results strongly suggest a crucial role of the ThetaTD (time-reversal and translational) symmetry to create the Dirac-fermion mass in AF TIs. |
| title | Universal Role of Combined Symmetry for the Protection of the Dirac Cone in Antiferromagnetic Topological Insulators |
| topic | Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Strongly Correlated Electrons |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13639 |