Topological insulators with perfect vacancy superstructure and possible implications for iron chalcogenide superconductors
2011
Motivated by the newly-discovered intercalated iron chalcogenide superconductors, we construct a single orbital tight-binding model for topological insulators on the square lattice with a perfect vacancy superstructure. We find that such lattice structure naturally accommodates a non-vanishing geometry phase associated with the next-nearest-neighbor spin-orbit interaction. By calculating the bulk band structures and the finite stripe edge states, we show that the topological insulator phases can be tuned at certain electron fillings in a wide range of the model parameters. The possible implications of these results for the iron deficient compounds $(A,Tl)_{y}Fe_{2-x}Se_2$ have been discussed.
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