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Magnetic-Field Induced Semimetal in Topological Crystalline Insulator Thin Films

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-04-10 v2 Materials Science

Abstract

We investigate electromagnetic properties of a topological crystalline insulator (TCI) thin film under external electromagnetic fields. The TCI thin film is a topological insulator indexed by the mirror-Chern number. It is demonstrated that the gap closes together with the emergence of a pair of gapless cones carrying opposite chirarities by applying in-plane magnetic field. A pair of gapless points have opposite vortex numbers. This is a reminiscence of a pair of Weyl cones in 3D Weyl semimetal. We thus present an a magnetic-field induced semimetal-semiconductor transition in 2D material. This is a giant-magnetoresistance, where resistivity is controlled by magnetic field. Perpendicular electric field is found to shift the gapless points and also renormalize the Fermi velocity in the direction of the in-plane magnetic field.

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@article{arxiv.1406.1009,
  title  = {Magnetic-Field Induced Semimetal in Topological Crystalline Insulator Thin Films},
  author = {Motohiko Ezawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.1009},
  year   = {2015}
}

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4 pages, 4 figures