Topological phases in Bi/Sb planar and buckled honeycomb monolayers
arXiv:1711.01055 · doi:10.1016/j.physleta.2018.06.037
Abstract
We investigate topological phases in two-dimensional Bi/Sb honeycomb crystals considering planar, buckled, freestanding and deposited on a substrate structures. We use the multi-orbital tight-binding model and compare results with density functional theory methods. We distinguish topological phases by calculating topological invariants, analyze edge states of systems in a ribbon geometry and by looking at their entanglement spectra. We show that weak coupling to the substrate of buckled and planar crystals is sufficient to lead to a transition to the topological insulator phase. Topological crystalline insulator (TCI) phase exhibits a pair of edge states in the semi-infinite geometry and in the entanglement spectrum. Transport calculations for TCI phases show robust quantized conductance even in a presence of symmetry-breaking disorder.
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