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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
卷 9, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03887-5
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- US Department of Energy (DOE), Scanned Probe Division [DE-SC0014335]
- National Science Foundation [NSF-DMR-1654041]
- ANR LabEx grant ENS-ICFP [ANR-10-LABX-0010/ANR-10-IDEX-0001-02 PSL]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0014335] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Orbital degrees of freedom can have pronounced effects on the fundamental properties of electrons in solids. In addition to influencing bandwidths, gaps, correlation strength and dispersion, orbital effects have been implicated in generating novel electronic and structural phases. Here we show how the orbital nature of bands can result in non-trivial effects of strain on band structure. We use scanning-tunneling microscopy to study the effects of strain on the electronic structure of a heteroepitaxial thin film of a topological crystalline insulator, SnTe. By studying the effects of uniaxial strain on the band structure we find a surprising effect where strain applied in one direction has the most pronounced influence on the band structure along the perpendicular direction. Our theoretical calculations indicate that this effect arises from the orbital nature of the conduction and valence bands. Our results imply that a microscopic model capturing strain effects must include a consideration of the orbital nature of bands.
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