Bismuth on higher ground

Together with international collaborators the group of Titus Neupert reached a new understanding of the electronic properties of elementary bismuth
In an international collaboration between two experimental and several theoretical groups led by the condensed matter theory group at UZH, a new understanding of the electronic properties of elementary bismuth has been reached. The researchers found bismuth to be what they call a ‘higher-order topological insulator’. What this means in practice is that bismuth supports conducting states on the hinges of an as-grown crystal. These states have very special properties: they transport electric current — in theory — dissipationless, i.e., without backscattering of the electrons. The theoretical prediction is supported by a scanning-tunneling microscopy experiment and by a transport experiment based on interference in superconducting Josephson junctions. The work was featured on the cover of Nature Physics.
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