Experimental determination of the topological phase diagram in Cerium monopnictides

黒田 健太*; 越智 正之*; 鈴木 博之*; 平山 元昭*; 中山 充大*; 野口 亮*; Bareille, C.*; 明比 俊太朗*; 國定 聡*; 室 隆桂之*; et al.

Physical Review Letters, 120(8), p.086402_1 - 086402_6, 2018/02

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.086402

We use bulk-sensitive soft X-ray angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and investigate bulk electronic structures of Ce monopnictides (CeX; X=P, As, Sb and Bi). By exploiting a paradigmatic study of the band structures as a function of their spin-orbit coupling (SOC), we draw the topological phase diagram of CeX and unambiguously reveal the topological phase transition from a trivial to a nontrivial regime in going from CeP to CeBi induced by the band inversion.