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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 109, Issue 22, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.227401
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [22656011, 23686007]
- JGC-S Scholarship Foundation
- Kao Foundation for Arts and Sciences
- Support Center for Advanced Telecommunications Technology Research
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [22340107, 22656011, 23686007, 24760536, 22560019] Funding Source: KAKEN
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We studied the atomic and electronic structures of ultrathin Bi(111) films grown on Bi2Te3 by means of angle-resolved photoemission, first-principles calculations, and low-energy electron diffraction. These Bi films were found to be strained due to the influence of the substrate. Accordingly, the band structure is affected and Bi undergoes a topological phase transition; it is shown that the Z(2) topological invariant in three dimensions switches from +1 (trivial) to -1 (nontrivial or topological). This was clearly confirmed from the change in the surface-state dispersion near the Fermi level. Our discovery offers a method to produce novel topological systems from simple materials.
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