強雜質在二維蜂窩晶格上對拓樸態的效應

Effects Of Strong Impurities On Topological States in 2D Honeycomb Lattice

李詩婷(Shi-Ting Lee)

指導教授 ： 牟中瑜

國立清華大學/理學院/物理學系/碩士(2013年)

摘要

The existence of mid-gap edge states is a distinct feature of topological electronic states. However, in the presence of vacancies, impurity band also arises inside the gap. The degeneracy of the impurity band with the edge states thus calls for an examination of the stability of topological states
in the presence of the impurity band.
In this thesis, we examine the stability of topological electronic states in honeycomb lattice due to the presence of the impurity band. We shall first investigate the topological indices and their evaluations based on the computation of the Chern number and the spin Chern number. A simple picture will be presented and demonstrates how Z2 topological index arises. Useful numerical algorithms that were developed from lattice gauge theory will be presented to calculate the Chern number and the spin Chern number of a given system that doesn't have translation invariant in real space and time-reversal symmetry.
Using the developed numerical methods, we analyze effects on the topological indices due to vacancies in the 2D Kane-Mele model and its extensions that
are applicable to new developed materials such as silicene and germanene.
A consistent check of the presence of edge states is also performed by computing the spectral function A(k,w) and local density of states.
It is shown that in consistency with our simple picture, changing of the spin Chern number from non-trivial to trivial values is accompanied by the destruction of Dirac cones. When Dirac cones are destroyed, topological insulators are turned into trivial insulators. The transition occurs in a first-order transition fashion at vacancy concentration being around 7 % when vacancies reside only on one sublattice. While if vacancies reside in both sublattices, Dirac cones are destroyed in a continuous fashion so that the transition is continuous. These results are useful for characterizing topological insulators.

關鍵字

拓樸絕緣體 ； 邊緣態 ； 雜質

並列摘要

無資料

並列關鍵字

topological insulator ； edge state ； impurity

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