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Dual evidence of surface Dirac states in thin cylindrical topological insulator Bi2Te3 nanowires
| Content Provider | PubMed Central |
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| Author | Tian, Mingliang Ning, Wei Zhe, Qu Du, Haifeng Wang, Jian Zhang, Yuheng |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Abstract | How the surface state (SS) develops and how the spin transport in a curved cylindrical topological insulator nanowire have attracted theoretical attention recently. However, experimental confirmation for the SS in such a real modeling system still remains insufficient. Here we carried out a systematic comparative study on the cylindrical single-crystal Bi2Te3 nanowires of various diameters, and report unambiguously dual evidence for the Dirac SS. Both the predicted anomalous Aharonov-Bohm (AB) quantum oscillations with a period of h/e in H// and the 1/2-shifted Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) oscillations (i.e., γ = −1/2) in H⊥ were indentified below 1.4 K. In addition, Altshuler-Aronov-Spivak (AAS)-like oscillations with a period of h/2e and ordinary SdH oscillations with γ = 0 were also resolved. These data provide clear evidence of coexistence of the nontrivial topological Dirac state and trivial electron state on the surface of topological insulator nanowire. |
| Related Links | http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep01212 |
| Starting Page | 1212 |
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| ISSN | 20452322 |
| e-ISSN | 20452322 |
| Journal | Scientific Reports |
| Volume Number | 3 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Nature Publishing Group |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | Nature Publishing Group |
| Subject Keyword | Science and technology Research in Higher Education |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Multidisciplinary |