Abstract
We have performed an in situ angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy study of undoped one-monolayer (1-ML) FeSe film on to elucidate the nature of the parent phase of high-temperature superconductivity. Accurate tuning of carrier concentration at zero doping by low-temperature postgrowth annealing of the film enabled us to observe a linearly dispersive Dirac-cone band and a pointlike Fermi surface on the mirror reflection plane arising from the nematic order. Intriguingly, the low-energy excitations of this material are solely characterized by the Dirac-cone band, since no other bands cross the Fermi level unlike its multilayer counterpart. The present result strongly suggests that undoped 1-ML FeSe is a two-dimensional Dirac semimetal with a mirror-symmetry-protected Dirac-cone band.
- Received 9 August 2017
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.220509
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