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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 88, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.88.125141
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Funding
- AFOSR [FA9550-10-1-0459]
- ONR [N0014-11-1-0728]
- NSF CAREER [ONR - N00014-11-1-0635, DMR- 095242, Darpa - N66001-11-1-4110]
- David and Lucile Packard Foundation
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0952428] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We study symmetry-protected features in the quasiparticle interference (QPI) pattern of two-dimensional (2D) systems with mirror symmetries and time-reversal symmetry, around a single static point impurity. We show that, in the Fourier-transformed local density of states (FT-LDOS) rho(q,omega), while the position of high-intensity peaks generically depends on the geometric features of the iso-energy contour at energy omega, the absence of certain peaks is guaranteed by the opposite mirror eigenvalues of the two Bloch states that are (i) on the mirror-symmetric lines in the Brillouin zone (BZ) and (ii) separated by scattering vector q. We apply the general result to the QPI on the < 001 > surface of the topological crystalline insulator Pb1-xSnx Te and predict all vanishing peaks in rho(q,omega). The model-independent analysis is supported by numerical calculations using an effective four-band model derived from symmetry analysis.
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