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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 110, Issue 8, Pages 2758-2762Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1218104110
Keywords
Dirac fermion; electronic structures; thin films
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Funding
- National Basic Research Program of China [2012CB927401, 2011CB921902, 2011CB922200]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [91021002, 10904090, 11174199, 11134008, 11274228]
- Shanghai Committee of Science and Technology, China [09JC1407500, 10QA1403300, 10JC1407100, 10PJ1405700, 12JC1405300]
- office of Basic Energy Sciences, US Department of Energy [DE-FG02-04ER46148]
- Shanghai Municipal Education Commission
- Shanghai Education Development Foundation
- Shanghai Institutions of Higher Learning
- Army Research Laboratory [W911NF-12-2-0023]
- National Science Foundation-Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers [DMR-1121252]
- Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, of the US Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
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Topological insulators and graphene present two unique classes of materials, which are characterized by spin-polarized (helical) and nonpolarized Dirac cone band structures, respectively. The importance of many-body interactions that renormalize the linear bands near Dirac point in graphene has been well recognized and attracted much recent attention. However, renormalization of the helical Dirac point has not been observed in topological insulators. Here, we report the experimental observation of the renormalized quasi-particle spectrum with a skewed Dirac cone in a single Bi bilayer grown on Bi2Te3 substrate from angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. First-principles band calculations indicate that the quasi-particle spectra are likely associated with the hybridization between the extrinsic substrate-induced Dirac states of Bi bilayer and the intrinsic surface Dirac states of Bi2Se3 film at close energy proximity. Without such hybridization, only single-particle Dirac spectra are observed in a single Bi bilayer grown on Bi2Se3, where the extrinsic Dirac states Bi bilayer and the intrinsic Dirac states of Bi2Se3 are well separated in energy. The possible origins of many-body interactions are discussed. Our findings provide a means to manipulate topological surface states.
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