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标题：Dual evidence of surface Dirac states in thin cylindrical topological insulator Bi2Te3 nanowires
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作者：Mingliang Tian ; Wei Ning ; Zhe Qu 等
期刊名称：Scientific Reports
电子版ISSN：2045-2322
出版年度：2013
卷号：3
期号：1
DOI：10.1038/srep01212
语种：English
出版社：Springer Nature
摘要：How the surface state (SS) develops and how the spin transport in a curved cylindrical topological insulator nanowire have attracted theoretical attention recently. However, experimental confirmation for the SS in such a real modeling system still remains insufficient. Here we carried out a systematic comparative study on the cylindrical single-crystal Bi₂Te₃ nanowires of various diameters, and report unambiguously dual evidence for the Dirac SS. Both the predicted anomalous Aharonov-Bohm (AB) quantum oscillations with a period of h/e in H_// and the 1/2-shifted Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) oscillations (i.e., γ = −1/2) in H_⊥ were indentified below 1.4 K. In addition, Altshuler-Aronov-Spivak (AAS)-like oscillations with a period of h/2e and ordinary SdH oscillations with γ = 0 were also resolved. These data provide clear evidence of coexistence of the nontrivial topological Dirac state and trivial electron state on the surface of topological insulator nanowire.