TY - JOUR
T1 - Relationship between Fermi surface warping and out-of-plane spin polarization in topological insulators
T2 - A view from spin- and angle-resolved photoemission
AU - Nomura, M.
AU - Souma, S.
AU - Takayama, A.
AU - Sato, T.
AU - Takahashi, T.
AU - Eto, K.
AU - Segawa, Kouji
AU - Ando, Yoichi
PY - 2014/1/27
Y1 - 2014/1/27
N2 - We have performed spin- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy of the topological insulator Pb(Bi,Sb)2Te4 and observed significant out-of-plane spin polarization on the hexagonally warped Dirac-cone surface state. To put this into context, we carried out quantitative analysis of the warping strengths for various topological insulators [Pb(Bi,Sb)2Te4, Bi2Te3, Bi2Se3, and TlBiSe2] and elucidated that the out-of-plane spin polarization Pz is systematically correlated with the warping strength. However, the magnitude of Pz is found to be only half that expected from the k·p theory when the warping is strong. Besides confirming a universal relationship between the spin polarization and the surface state structure, our data provide an empirical guiding principle for tuning the spin polarization in topological insulators.
AB - We have performed spin- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy of the topological insulator Pb(Bi,Sb)2Te4 and observed significant out-of-plane spin polarization on the hexagonally warped Dirac-cone surface state. To put this into context, we carried out quantitative analysis of the warping strengths for various topological insulators [Pb(Bi,Sb)2Te4, Bi2Te3, Bi2Se3, and TlBiSe2] and elucidated that the out-of-plane spin polarization Pz is systematically correlated with the warping strength. However, the magnitude of Pz is found to be only half that expected from the k·p theory when the warping is strong. Besides confirming a universal relationship between the spin polarization and the surface state structure, our data provide an empirical guiding principle for tuning the spin polarization in topological insulators.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevB.89.045134
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevB.89.045134
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84894642443
SN - 1098-0121
VL - 89
JO - Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
JF - Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
IS - 4
M1 - 045134
ER -