Interplay of Silver-Mean Quasiperiodicity and Weyl Semimetal Phase in <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <mml:mrow> <mml:msub> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>WTe</mml:mi> </mml:mrow> <mml:mrow> <mml:mn>2</mml:mn> </mml:mro
We investigate the intercalation of epoxy resin into a Weyl semimetal, WTe_{2}, by using a scanning tunneling microscopy. We show that intercalant molecules have self-similar height variations with the silver-mean quasiperiodicity and also that they create phason and soliton defects to yield a mean coherence length of 15 sequential order. In addition, we unravel that weak quasiperiodic potentials imposed by the intercalation layer drive a WTe_{2} surface to have an enhanced conductance near the Fermi level while keeping its semimetal phase, providing a direct verification of theoretical prediction.
Authors
- Chang-Youn Moon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7778-776X)
- Daejin Eom (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6011-1149)
- So-Dam Sohn (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3527-2677)
- Ja-Yong Koo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8313-3033)
Institutions
- Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical Review Letters
- Published
- 2025-11-05
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/19j9-whj7
- Primary Topic
- Topological Materials and Phenomena
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00