(TaSe4)2I, a quasi-one-dimensional (1D) crystal, shows a characteristic temperature-driven metal-insulator phase transition. Above the charge density wave (CDW) temperature Tc, (TaSe4)2I has been predicted to harbor a Weyl semimetal phase. Below Tc, it becomes an axion insulator. Here, we performed angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) measurements on the (110) surface of (TaSe4)2I and observed two sets of Dirac-like energy bands in the first Brillion zone, which agree well with our first-principles calculations. Moreover, we found that each Dirac band exhibits an energy splitting of hundreds of meV under certain circumstances. In combination with core level measurements, our theoretical analysis showed that this Dirac band splitting is a result of surface charge polarization due to the loss of surface iodine atoms. Our findings here shed new light on the interplay between band topology and CDW order in Peierls compounds and will motivate more studies on topological properties of strongly correlated quasi-1D materials.
@article{arxiv.2012.02402,
title = {Surface Charge Induced Dirac Band Splitting in a Charge Density Wave Material (TaSe4)2I},
author = {Hemian Yi and Zengle Huang and Wujun Shi and Lujin Min and Rui Wu and C. M. Polley and Ruoxi Zhang and Yi-Fan Zhao and Ling-Jie Zhou and J. Adell and Xin Gui and Weiwei Xie and Moses H. W. Chan and Zhiqiang Mao and Zhijun Wang and Weida Wu and Cui-Zu Chang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.02402},
year = {2021}
}