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Spin-polarized (001) surface states of the topological crystalline insulator Pb_(0.73)Sn_(0.27)Se

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arxiv 1212.1783 v1 pith:EMXVLXGB submitted 2012-12-08 cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Spin-polarized (001) surface states of the topological crystalline insulator Pb_(0.73)Sn_(0.27)Se

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We study the nature of (001) surface states in Pb_{0.73}Sn_{0.27}Se in the newly discovered topological-crystalline-insulator (TCI) phase as well as the corresponding topologically trivial state above the band-gap-inversion temperature. Our calculations predict not only metallic surface states with a nontrivial chiral spin structure for the TCI case, but also nonmetallic (gapped) surface states with nonzero spin polarization when the system is a normal insulator. For both phases, angle- and spin-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy measurements provide conclusive evidence for the formation of these (001) surface states in Pb_{0.73}Sn_{0.27}Se, as well as for their chiral spin structure.

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