Broken site symmetry of Fe adatoms on Bi${}_2$Te${}_3$

Duy Nguyen, Hari Paudyal, Joseph R. Sink +2

We report a combined scanning tunneling microscopy and atomistic theoretical study of Fe adatoms on the Bi${}_2$Te${}_3$(111) surface. Topographic imaging at $4.5$~K shows that Fe adat…