Coexistence of isoenergetic Rashba and Dirac fermions on the surface of centrosymmetric topological insulator decorated with transition metals.

The Dirac cone originates from the bulk topology, yet its primary contribution comes from the surface since spatially, the Dirac state emerges at the boundary between the trivial and topological phases. At the same time, the Rashba states emerge in r…

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