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Topological phase in non-centrosymmetric material NaSnBi

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2016-12-21 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We predict that a non-centrosymmetric material NaSnBi locates in a three-dimensional non-trivial topological phase under ambient pressure based on first-principle calculations. By deriving the effective model around Γ\Gamma point, we find that the topological phase transition is driven by a Rashba spin-orbital coupling through an odd number of pairs of band touch because of a small anisotropic gap caused by quintic dispersion terms. In contrast to conventional topological insulators, the spin texture of surface Dirac cone is right-handed and the surface states are strikingly different for different surface terminations.

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@article{arxiv.1611.01612,
  title  = {Topological phase in non-centrosymmetric material NaSnBi},
  author = {Xia Dai and Congcong Le and Xianxin Wu and Shengshan Qin and Zhiping Lin and Jiangping Hu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.01612},
  year   = {2016}
}

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6 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables

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