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Hexagonal Warping Effects in the Surface States of Topological Insulator BiTe

arXiv:0908.1418 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.266801

Abstract

A single two-dimensinoal Dirac fermion state has been recently observed on the surface of topological insulator BiTe by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES). We study the surface band structure using theory and find an unconventional hexagonal warping term, which is the counterpart of cubic Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling in rhombohedral structures. We show that this hexagonal warping term naturally explains the observed hexagonal snow-flake Fermi surface. The strength of hexagonal warping is characterized by a single parameter, which is extracted from the size of the Fermi surface. We predict a number of testable signatures of hexagonal warping in spectroscopy experiments on BiTe. We also explore the possibility of a spin-density wave due to strong nesting of the Fermi surface.

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