Activation of topological insulator phase in kagomé-type bilayers by interlayer coupling: the cases of Ni(CO)4 and Pd(CO)4

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Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

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We predict that a 2D kagomé-type topological insulator (TI) can be built as a bilayer of a single-layer material that is not a TI. We demonstrate this through first-principles calculations of a class of C6 O6 and C6ðNHÞ6 based 2D metal-organic frameworks. We find that minimum-energy bilayers of two compounds of this class, with stoichiometries NiðCOÞ4 and PdðCOÞ4 , are intrinsic topological insulators although their isolated single-layer components are trivial metals. The first-principles results for the single-layer and bilayer systems are reproduced by tight-binding models. The simplicity of the models suggests that other bilayer TI systems of this type should exist, not necessarily composed of metal-organic frameworks, as long as they are composed of kagomé-type systems in a AA stacking.

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Teoria do funcional da densidade, Isoladores topológicos

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Density functional theory, Tight-binding model, First-principle calculations, Quantum Hall effect, 2D materials, Topological insulator

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https://pubs.aip.org/aip/apl/article/116/10/103103/38794/Activation-of-topological-insulator-phase-in

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