Hydrodynamic theory of surface excitations of three-dimensional topological insulators
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2011-04-05 v4
Abstract
Edge excitations of a fractional quantum Hall system can be derived as surface excitations of an incompressible quantum droplet using one dimensional chiral bosonization. Here we show that an analogous approach can be developed to characterize surface states of three-dimensional time reversal invariant topological insulators. The key ingredient of our theory is the Luther's multidimensional bosonization construction.
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@article{arxiv.1008.4235,
title = {Hydrodynamic theory of surface excitations of three-dimensional topological insulators},
author = {N. M. Vildanov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.4235},
year = {2011}
}
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4 pages, published version