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Dual nature of localized phase defects in the In/Si(111) atomic wire array: impurities and short topological solitons (2012.00604v1)
Published 1 Dec 2020 in cond-mat.mtrl-sci, nlin.PS, and physics.comp-ph
Abstract: We demonstrate the existence of atomically-sized topological solitons in a quasi one-dimensional charge density wave system: indium atomic wires on Si(111). Performing joint scanning tunneling microscopy and density-functional calculations, we show that the Si(111)-(8x2)In surface features two conceptually different types of abrupt phase flip structures. One is caused by In adatoms and is, hence, non-solitonic in nature. The other one is an abrupt left-chiral soliton.
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