Measurement of q-dependent Joint-DOS of a topological insulator

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We propose inelastic neutron scattering (INS) experiment on single crystal of the prototype topological insulator (TI), Bi2Se3, at MAPS to measure q-dependent joint-DOS, based on Cooke and Blackman's theoretical works (PRB, 26, 4410). We will, first, compare measured q-dependent joint-DOS with the calculated one and see how accurate the first principle calculation is. This is very important, since the first principle calculations have been pivotal in this field, and there is no other tools to measure q-dependent joint-DOS of bulk electronics structure of a TI. More importantly, this work will be first measurement of q-dependent joint-DOS of a single crystal and will push the envelope of capabilities of INS. We shall also investigate the symmetry of ground state wavefunction of Bi2Se3, which plays crucial role to determine whether it is topological insulator, through form factor analysis.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24089982
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24089982
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Creator Dr Dmitry Reznik; Dr Abe Park
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2015
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2012-12-07T15:47:21Z
Temporal Coverage End 2012-12-14T12:12:27Z