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Past colloquia and seminars

26
Apr

Emergent honeycomb physics from chiral atomic orbitals on a triangular lattice

General public Colloquium / Congress / Forum

In the hunt for room-temperature quantum spin Hall insulators, bismuthene [1] has demonstrated the impressive advantage of a local spin-orbit coupling experienced by the in-plane p-orbitals. This alternative to pi-bond graphene can be pushed to a conceptually even more essential level upon halving the honeycomb lattice, i.e. considering chiral p-orbitals on a triangular lattice. We theoretically conceive and experimentally realize for the first time a triangular real-space obstructed QSHI [2,3], "indenene", an indium monolayer exhibiting non-trivial valley physics and a large gap, as well as representing a model platform for higher-order topology [4]. We identify an interference mechanism of the Bloch functions and the emergence of a hidden honeycomb pattern in the charge localization, which makes the topological classification accessible to bulk experiments, without the necessity of quantum edge transport.


When? 26.04.2023 16:50
Where? PER 08 0.51
Chemin du Musée 3
1700 Fribourg
speaker Asst. Prof. Domenico Di Sante
University of Bologne
Invited by group Monney
Contact Département de physique, groupe Monney
Prof. Claude Monney
claude.monney@unifr.ch
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