Large Fermi-Energy Shift and Suppression of Trivial Surface States in NbP Weyl Semimetal Thin Films.

ABSTRACT: Weyl semimetals, a class of 3D topological materials, exhibit a unique electronic structure featuring linear band crossings and disjoint surface states (Fermi-arcs). While first demonstrations of topologically driven phenomena have been realized in bulk crystals, efficient routes to control the electronic structure have remained largely unexplored. Here, a dramatic modification of the electronic structure in epitaxially grown NbP Weyl semimetal thin films is reported, using in situ surface engineering and chemical doping strategies that do not alter the NbP lattice structure and symmetry, retaining its topological nature. Through the preparation of a dangling-bond-free, P-terminated surface which manifests in a surface reconstruction, all the well-known trivial surface states of NbP are fu

SUBMITTER: Bedoya-Pinto A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11469305 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature