晶体孪晶
半金属
纳米线
材料科学
凝聚态物理
费米能级
拓扑(电路)
纳米技术
化学物理
电子
化学
物理
光电子学
带隙
微观结构
量子力学
数学
组合数学
冶金
作者
Nitish Mathur,Fang Yuan,Guangming Cheng,Sahal Kaushik,Iñigo Robredo,Maia G. Vergniory,Jennifer Cano,Nan Yao,Song Jin,Leslie M. Schoop
出处
期刊:Nano Letters
[American Chemical Society]
日期:2023-03-15
卷期号:23 (7): 2695-2702
被引量:2
标识
DOI:10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c05100
摘要
Internal interfaces in Weyl semimetals (WSMs) are predicted to host distinct topological features that are different from the commonly studied external interfaces (crystal-to-vacuum boundaries). However, the lack of atomically sharp and crystallographically oriented internal interfaces in WSMs makes it difficult to experimentally investigate hidden topological states buried inside the material. Here, we study a unique internal interface known as merohedral twin boundary in chemically synthesized single-crystal nanowires (NWs) of CoSi, a chiral WSM of space group P213 (No. 198). High resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy reveals that this internal interface is (001) twin plane and connects two enantiomeric counterparts at an atomically sharp interface with inversion twinning. Ab-initio calculations show localized internal Fermi arcs at the (001) twin boundary that can be clearly distinguished from both external Fermi arcs and bulk states. These merohedrally twinned CoSi NWs provide an ideal material system to probe unexplored topological properties associated with internal interfaces in WSMs.
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