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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 89, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.89.035117
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- Japan Society for Promotion of Science [24840047, 24540338]
- RIKEN iTHES Project
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [24540338, 24840047] Funding Source: KAKEN
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We study the stability against disorder of surface states of weak Z(2) topological insulators (superconductors) which are stacks of strong Z(2) topological insulators (superconductors), considering representative Dirac Hamiltonians in the Altland-Zirnbauer symmetry classes in various spatial dimensions. We show that, in the absence of disorder, surface Dirac fermions of weak Z(2) topological insulators (superconductors) can be gapped out by a Dirac mass term which couples surface Dirac cones and leads to breaking of a translation symmetry (dimerization). The dimerization mass is a unique Dirac mass term in the surface Dirac Hamiltonian, and the two dimerized gapped phases which differ in the sign of the Dirac mass are distinguished by a Z(2) index. In other words the dimerized surfaces can be regarded as a strong Z(2) topological insulator (superconductor). We argue that the surface states are not localized by disorder when the ensemble average of the Dirac mass term vanishes.
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