Band inversion and topology of the bulk electronic structure in FeSe${}_{0.45}$Te${}_{0.55}$

Abstract

FeSe${}_{0.45}$Te${}_{0.55}$ (FeSeTe) has recently emerged as a promising candidate to host topological superconductivity, with a Dirac surface state and signatures of Majorana bound states in vortex cores. However, correlations strongly renormalize the bands compared to electronic structure calculations, and there is no evidence for the expected bulk band inversion. We present here a comprehensive angle resolved photoemission (ARPES) study of FeSeTe as function of photon energies ranging from 15 - 100 eV. We find that although the top of bulk valence band shows essentially no $k_z$ dispersion, its normalized intensity exhibits a periodic variation with $k_z$. We show, using ARPES selection rules, that the intensity oscillation is a signature of band inversion indicating a change in the parity going from $\Gamma$ to Z. Thus we provide the first direct evidence for a topologically non-trivial bulk band structure that supports protected surface states.

arXiv comment10 pages, 10 figures, including appendices

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