English

Dual topology in Jacutingaite Pt$_2$HgSe$_3$

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2019-07-31 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

Topological phases of electronic systems often coexist in a material, well-known examples being systems which are both strong and weak topological insulators. More recently, a number of materials have been found to have the topological structure of both a weak topological insulator and a mirror-protected topological crystalline insulator. In this work, we first focus on the naturally occurring mineral called Jacutingaite, Pt2_2HgSe3_3, and show based on density-functional calculations that it realizes this dual topological phase and that the same conclusion holds for Pd2_2HgSe3_3. Second, we introduce tight-binding models that capture the essential topological properties of this dual topological phase in materials with three-fold rotation symmetry and use these models to describe the main features of the surface spectral density of different materials in the class.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1903.05001,
  title  = {Dual topology in Jacutingaite Pt$_2$HgSe$_3$},
  author = {Jorge I. Facio and Sanjib Kumar Das and Yang Zhang and Klaus Koepernik and Jeroen van den Brink and Ion Cosma Fulga},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.05001},
  year   = {2019}
}