Topologically nontrivial bismuth(111) thin films
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Using high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), the topological property of the three-dimensional Bi(111) films grown on the Bi2Te3(111) substrate were studied. Very different from the bulk Bi, we found another surface band near the point besides the two well-known surface bands on the 30 nm films. With this new surface band, the bulk valence band and the bulk conduction band can be connected by the surface states in the Bi(111)/Bi2Te3 films. Our band mapping revealed odd number of Fermi crossings of the surface bands, which provided new experimental evidences that Bi(111)/Bi2Te3 films of a certain thickness can be topologically nontrivial in three dimension.
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