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Atypical Highly-Dispersive Band Structure in Putative Amorphous Topological Insulator

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Abstract

In typical amorphous and highly disordered materials, Anderson Localization guarantees flat valence bands. This effect is so dramatic and pervasive in the amorphous field of study that the density of states is assumed to be momentum-independent, serving as the full characterization of an amorphous system's electronic structure. In this work, we discover an exception to this rule in amorphous Bi2Se3 films. Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy uncovers an amorphous surface-state band structure with strong momentum-dependence and spin-momentum locking. We observe a Fermi surface with repeated annuli and reveal a spherically-parameterized momentum-space picture that warrants a re-evaluation of amorphous band structure on the most fundamental level.

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Presenters

  • Samuel Ciocys

    University of California, Berkeley

Authors

  • Samuel Ciocys

    University of California, Berkeley

  • Paul Corbae

    University of California, Berkeley

  • Daniel Varjas

    QuTech and Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, QuTech and Kavli Institute of NanoScience,, Delft University of Technology

  • Adolfo G Grushin

    University Grenoble Alpes, Neel Institute (CNRS), Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP,Institut Néel, Néel Institute

  • Frances Hellman

    Physics, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Alessandra Lanzara

    University of California, Berkeley, Physics, University of California, Berkeley