One-dimensional electronic structure of phosphorene chains

Abstract

Phosphorene, a 2D allotrope of phosphorus, is technologically very appealing because of its semiconducting properties and narrow band gap. Further reduction of the phosphorene dimensionality may spawn exotic properties of its electronic structure, including lateral quantum confinement and topological edge states. Phosphorene atomic chains self-assembled on Ag(111) have recently been characterized structurally but were found by angle-resolved photoemission (ARPES) to be electronically 2D. We show that these chains, although aligned equiprobably to three <$1\bar{1}0$> directions of the Ag(111) surface, can be characterized by ARPES because the three rotational variants are separated in the angular domain. The dispersion of the phosphorus band measured along and perpendicular to the chains reveals pronounced electronic confinement resulting in a 1D band, flat and dispersionless perpendicular to the chain direction in momentum space. Our density functional theory calculations reproduce the 1D band for the experimentally determined structure of P/Ag(111). We predict a semiconductor-to-metal phase transition upon increasing the density of the chain array so that a 2D structure would be metallic.

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