Tomonaga Luttinger liquid in the topological edge channel of multilayer FeSe
arXiv:2303.05749 · doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c02069
Abstract
A two dimensional topological insulator exhibits helical edge states topologically protected against single particle backscattering. Such protection breaks down, however, when electron electron interactions are significant or when edge reconstruction occurs, leading to suppressed density of states (DOS) at Fermi level that follows universal scaling with temperature and energy, characteristic of Tomonaga Luttinger liquid (TLL). Here, we grow multilayer FeSe on SrTiO3 by molecular beam epitaxy, and observe robust edge states at both {100}Se and {110}Se steps using scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy. We determine the DOS follows a power law, resulting in Luttinger parameter K of 0.26 +/- 0.02 and 0.43 +/- 0.07 for {100}Se and {110}Se edges, respectively. The smaller K for the {100}Se edge also indicates strong correlations, attributed to ferromagnetic ordering likely present due to checkerboard antiferromagnetic fluctuations in FeSe. These results demonstrate TLL in FeSe helical edge channels, providing an exciting model system for novel topological excitations arising from superconductivity and interacting helical edge states.
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