Chin. Phys. Lett.  2018, Vol. 35 Issue (5): 057301    DOI: 10.1088/0256-307X/35/5/057301
CONDENSED MATTER: ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE, ELECTRICAL, MAGNETIC, AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES |
Atomic-Ordering-Induced Quantum Phase Transition between Topological Crystalline Insulator and $Z_{2}$ Topological Insulator
Hui-Xiong Deng1,2**, Zhi-Gang Song1, Shu-Shen Li1,2,3, Su-Huai Wei4**, Jun-Wei Luo1,2,3**
1State Key Laboratory of Superlattices and Microstructures, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083
2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049
3Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences, Beijing 100193
4Beijing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing 100094
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Abstract Topological phase transition in a single material usually refers to transitions between a trivial band insulator and a topological Dirac phase, and the transition may also occur between different classes of topological Dirac phases. It is a fundamental challenge to realize quantum transition between $Z_{2}$ nontrivial topological insulator (TI) and topological crystalline insulator (TCI) in one material because $Z_{2}$ TI and TCI have different requirements on the number of band inversions. The $Z_{2}$ TIs must have an odd number of band inversions over all the time-reversal invariant momenta, whereas the newly discovered TCIs, as a distinct class of the topological Dirac materials protected by the underlying crystalline symmetry, owns an even number of band inversions. Taking PbSnTe$_{2}$ alloy as an example, here we demonstrate that the atomic-ordering is an effective way to tune the symmetry of the alloy so that we can electrically switch between TCI phase and $Z_{2}$ TI phase in a single material. Our results suggest that the atomic-ordering provides a new platform towards the realization of reversibly switching between different topological phases to explore novel applications.
Received: 21 February 2018      Published: 28 March 2018
PACS:  73.43.Nq (Quantum phase transitions)  
  71.20.Nr (Semiconductor compounds)  
  73.20.At (Surface states, band structure, electron density of states)  
  71.15.Mb (Density functional theory, local density approximation, gradient and other corrections)  
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