{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["5"],"submitter":["Di Sante D"],"pubmed_abstract":["By addressing the interplay between substitutional disorder and spin-orbit-coupling in chalcogenide alloys, we predict a strong robustness of spectral features at the Fermi energy. Indeed, supplementing our state of the art first-principles calculations with modeling analysis, we show that the disorder self-energy is vanishingly small close to the band gap, thus i) allowing for bulk Rashba-like spin splitting to be observed in ferroelectric alloys by means of Angle Resolved PhotoEmission Spectroscopy, and ii) protecting the band-character inversion related to the topological transition in recently discovered Topological Crystalline Insulators. Such a protection against strong disorder, which we demonstrate to be general for three dimensional Dirac systems, has potential and valuable implic"],"journal":["Scientific reports"],"pagination":["11285"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC4650895"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Robustness of Rashba and Dirac Fermions against Strong Disorder."],"pmcid":["PMC4650895"],"pubmed_authors":["Barone P","Di Sante D","Picozzi S","Plekhanov E","Ciuchi S"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Robustness of Rashba and Dirac Fermions against Strong Disorder.","description":"By addressing the interplay between substitutional disorder and spin-orbit-coupling in chalcogenide alloys, we predict a strong robustness of spectral features at the Fermi energy. Indeed, supplementing our state of the art first-principles calculations with modeling analysis, we show that the disorder self-energy is vanishingly small close to the band gap, thus i) allowing for bulk Rashba-like spin splitting to be observed in ferroelectric alloys by means of Angle Resolved PhotoEmission Spectroscopy, and ii) protecting the band-character inversion related to the topological transition in recently discovered Topological Crystalline Insulators. Such a protection against strong disorder, which we demonstrate to be general for three dimensional Dirac systems, has potential and valuable implic","dates":{"release":"2015-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2015 Jun","modification":"2025-04-04T07:52:03.369Z","creation":"2019-03-27T02:02:19Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC4650895","cross_references":{"pubmed":["26067146"],"doi":["10.1038/srep11285"]}}