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Topological phase in non-centrosymmetric material NaSnBi

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arxiv 1611.01612 v1 pith:ECMTMZO2 submitted 2016-11-05 cond-mat.str-el cond-mat.mes-hall

Topological phase in non-centrosymmetric material NaSnBi

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keywords topologicalphasesurfacedifferentmaterialnasnbinon-centrosymmetricambient
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We predict that a non-centrosymmetric material NaSnBi locates in a three-dimensional non-trivial topological phase under ambient pressure based on first-principle calculations. By deriving the effective model around $\Gamma$ point, we find that the topological phase transition is driven by a Rashba spin-orbital coupling through an odd number of pairs of band touch because of a small anisotropic gap caused by quintic dispersion terms. In contrast to conventional topological insulators, the spin texture of surface Dirac cone is right-handed and the surface states are strikingly different for different surface terminations.

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