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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 1, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1131
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- Danish Council for Independent Research
- Danish National Research Foundation
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The surface of a topological insulator plays host to an odd number of linearly-dispersing Dirac fermions, protected against back-scattering by time-reversal symmetry. Such characteristics make these materials attractive not only for studying a range of fundamental phenomena in both condensed matter and particle physics, but also for applications ranging from spintronics to quantum computation. Here, we show that the single Dirac cone comprising the topological state of the prototypical topological insulator Bi2Se3 can co-exist with a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG), a cornerstone of conventional electronics. Creation of the 2DEG is tied to a surface band-bending effect, which should be general for narrow-gap topological insulators. This leads to the unique situation where a topological and a non-topological, easily tunable and potentially superconducting, metallic state are confined to the same region of space.
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