title: Band Engineering of Dirac Surface States in Topological-Insulator-Based van der Waals Heterostructures.
abstract: The existence of a gapless Dirac surface band of a three dimensional (3D) topological insulator (TI) is guaranteed by the nontrivial topological character of the bulk band, yet the surface band dispersion is mainly determined by the environment near the surface. In this Letter, through in situ angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and first-principles calculation on 3D TI-based van der Waals heterostructures, we demonstrate that one can engineer the surface band structures of 3D TIs by surface modifications without destroying their topological nontrivial property. The result provides an accessible method to independently control the surface and bulk electronic structures of 3D TIs, and sheds light on designing artificial topological materials for electronic and spintronic purposes.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.|Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
authors.forename: Cui-Zu
authors.initials: CZ
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
authors.forename: Peizhe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.|Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
authors.forename: Xiao
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.affiliation: Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
authors.forename: Kang
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.|Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing 100084, China.
authors.forename: Xu-Cun
authors.initials: XC
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.|Institute of Advanced Study, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.|Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing 100084, China.
authors.forename: Wenhui
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Duan
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.|Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing 100084, China.
authors.forename: Ke
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: He
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.|Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.|Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing 100084, China.
authors.forename: Qi-Kun
authors.initials: QK
authors.lastname: Xue