Pressure and temperature driven phase transitions in HgTe quantum wells
arXiv:1607.03083 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.94.245402
Abstract
We present theoretical investigations of pressure and temperature driven phase transitions in HgTe quantum wells grown on CdTe buffer. Using the 8-band \textbf{kp} Hamiltonian we calculate evolution of energy band structure at different quantum well width with hydrostatic pressure up to 20 kBar and temperature ranging up 300 K. In particular, we show that in addition to temperature, tuning of hydrostatic pressure allows to drive transitions between semimetal, band insulator and topological insulator phases. Our realistic band structure calculations reveal that the band inversion under hydrostatic pressure and temperature may be accompanied by non-local overlapping between conduction and valence bands. The pressure and temperature phase diagrams are presented.
arXiv comment9 pages, 8 figures + Supplemental material (5 pages)
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