Insulating Half-Heusler TmPdSb with Unusual Band Order and Metallic Surface States

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العنوان: Insulating Half-Heusler TmPdSb with Unusual Band Order and Metallic Surface States
المؤلفون: Dan, Shovan, Ptok, Andrzej, Pavlosiuk, Orest, Singh, Karan, Wiśniewski, Piotr, Kaczorowski, Dariusz
المصدر: Adv. Funct. Mater. 2024, 2402415
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Condensed Matter
مصطلحات موضوعية: Condensed Matter - Materials Science
الوصف: We present theoretical and experimental results exploring a half-Heusler compound TmPdSb with unusual band order and metallic surface states. Typically, the half-Heusler systems exhibit topological features in a semimetallic state, and trivial ones in an insulating state. Topological properties of the most of half-Heusler systems are related to the band inversion around the Fermi level, similar to this observed in CdTe/HgTe systems. In the case of TmPdSb we observed the gapped electronic band structure with ``band inversion'' in the conductance band, while the slab-like system realized metallic surface states. The bulk insulating nature of the compound was corroborated by means of electrical transport measurements. The experimental data revealed several features due to the presence of metallic surface states, such as linear magnetoresistance and weak-antilocalization effect, characterized by enhanced coherence length and a very large number of surface conductive channels. Our findings reveal new features of the rare-earth half-Heusler.
Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures, supporting information
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202402415
الوصول الحر: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10094Test
رقم الانضمام: edsarx.2406.10094
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv