Robustness and universality of surface states in Dirac materials
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DOI10.1073/PNAS.1722663115zbMATH Open1416.82036arXiv1805.09347OpenAlexW2804507839WikidataQ59431111 ScholiaQ59431111MaRDI QIDQ4967484FDOQ4967484
Authors: Oles Shtanko, L. S. Levitov 
Publication date: 3 July 2019
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: Ballistically propagating topologically protected states harbor exotic transport phenomena of wide interest. Here we describe a nontopological mechanism that produces such states at the surfaces of generic Dirac materials, giving rise to propagating surface modes with energies near the bulk band crossing. The robustness of surface states originates from the unique properties of Dirac-Bloch wavefunctions which exhibit strong coupling to generic boundaries. Surface states, described by Jackiw-Rebbi-type bound states, feature a number of interesting properties. Mode dispersion is gate tunable, exhibiting a wide variety of different regimes, including nondispersing flat bands and linear crossings within the bulk bandgap. The ballistic wavelike character of these states resembles the properties of topologically protected states; however, it requires neither topological restrictions nor additional crystal symmetries. The Dirac surface states are weakly sensitive to surface disorder and can dominate edge transport at the energies near the Dirac point.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.09347
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