Pomeranchuk instability of a topological crystal

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العنوان: Pomeranchuk instability of a topological crystal
المؤلفون: Hossain, Md Shafayat, Muhammad, Zahir, Islam, Rajibul, Cheng, Zi-Jia, Jiang, Yu-Xiao, Litskevich, Maksim, Cochran, Tyler A., Yang, Xian P., Kim, Byunghoon, Xue, Fei, Perakis, Ilias E., Zhao, Weisheng, Kargarian, Mehdi, Balicas, Luis, Neupert, Titus, Hasan, M. Zahid
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Condensed Matter
مصطلحات موضوعية: Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons, Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics, Condensed Matter - Materials Science
الوصف: Nematic quantum fluids appear in strongly interacting systems and break the rotational symmetry of the crystallographic lattice. In metals, this is connected to a well-known instability of the Fermi liquid-the Pomeranchuk instability. Using scanning tunneling microscopy, we identified this instability in a highly unusual setting: on the surface of an elemental topological metal, arsenic. By directly visualizing the Fermi surface of the surface state via scanning tunneling spectroscopy and photoemission spectroscopy, we find that the Fermi surface gets deformed and becomes elliptical at the energies where the nematic state is present. Known instances of nematic instability typically need van-Hove singularities or multi-orbital physics as drivers. In contrast, the surface states of arsenic are essentially indistinguishable from well-confined isotropic Rashba bands near the Fermi level, rendering our finding the first realization of Pomeranchuk instability of the topological surface state.
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.19636
رقم الانضمام: edsarx.2410.19636
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv