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We examine the carrier density dependence of the scattering rate in two- and three-dimensional electron liquids in SrTiO3 in the regime where it scales with T^n (T is the temperature and n <= 2) in the cases when it is varied by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-11 Evgeny Mikheev , Santosh Raghavan , Jack Y. Zhang , Patrick B. Marshall , Adam P. Kajdos , Leon Balents , Susanne Stemmer

The surface conductivity for conduction electrons with a fixed chirality in a topological insulator with impurities scattering is considered. The surface excitations are described by the Weyl Hamiltonian. For a finite chemical potential one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-06 D. Schmeltzer

We investigate the electrical conductivity and thermoelectric effects in topological crystalline insulators in the presence of short- and long-range impurity interactions. We employ the generalized Boltzmann formalism for anisotropic Fermi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-29 Babak Zare Rameshti , Reza Asgari

This article reviews recent theoretical and experimental work on transport due to the surface states of three-dimensional topological insulators. The theoretical focus is on longitudinal transport in the presence of an electric field,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-29 Dimitrie Culcer

Charge transport in topological insulators is primarily characterised by so-called topologically projected helical edge states, where charge carriers are correlated in spin and momentum. In principle, dissipation-less current can be carried…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Jesse A. Vaitkus , Cong Son Ho , Jared H. Cole

We theoretically study the electric current induced by the temporally oscillating magnetic field onto a three-dimensional topological insulator based on the linear response theory. The electric current flows on its surface because of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-23 Tetsuro Habe , Yasuhiro Asano

The temperature dependence of electric transport properties of single-layer and few-layer graphene at large charge doping is of great interest both for the study of the scattering processes dominating the conductivity at different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-02 R. S. Gonnelli , F. Paolucci , E. Piatti , Kanudha Sharda , A. Sola , M. Tortello , Jijeesh R. Nair , C. Gerbaldi , M. Bruna , S. Borini

This paper develops a scattering theory for the asymmetric transport observed at interfaces separating two-dimensional topological insulators. Starting from the spectral decomposition of an unperturbed interface Hamiltonian, we present a…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Binglu Chen , Guillaume Bal

The outstanding transport properties expected at the edge of two-dimensional time-reversal invariant topological insulators have proven to be challenging to realize experimentally, and have so far only been demonstrated in very short…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-06 Luca Vannucci , Thomas Olsen , Kristian S. Thygesen

Ab initio electronic structure calculations based on density functional theory and tight-binding methods for the thermoelectric properties of p-type Sb$_2$Te$_3$ films are presented. The thickness-dependent electrical conductivity and the…

We experimentally investigate the effect of electron temperature on transport in the two-dimensional Dirac surface states of the three-dimensional topological insulator HgTe. We find that around the minimal conductivity point, where both…

We theoretically study the spin and charge generation along with the electron transport on a disordered surface of a doped three-dimensional topological insulator/magnetic insulator junction by using Green's function techniques. We find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-29 Katsuhisa Taguchi , Kunitaka Shintani , Yukio Tanaka

We investigate the spin conductivity of topological insulators taking into account both the surface and quasi-two-dimensional bulk states. We apply a low-energy expansion of the Hamiltonian up to the third order in momentum and take into…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 R. S. Akzyanov , A. L. Rakhmanov

We investigate theoretically 2D electronic transport in Si:P $\delta$-doped layers limited by charged-dopant scattering. Since the carrier density is approximately equal to the dopant impurity density, the density dependent transport shows…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-21 E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

We develop a theory for density, disorder, and temperature dependent electrical conductivity of bilayer graphene in the presence of long-range charged impurity scattering as well as an additional short-range disorder of independent origin,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-21 S. Das Sarma , E. H. Hwang , E. Rossi

Topological nodal-line semimetals are characterized by symmetry-protected one-dimensional band-touching lines or loops, which give rise to their peculiar Fermi surfaces at low energies. Furthermore, if time-reversal or inversion symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Hamid Rahimpoor , Saeed H. Abedinpour

Anisotropic charge carrier transport in black phosphorus limited by ionized impurity scattering at finite temperature is explored theoretically. The anisotropic electronic structure enters the calculation for the polarizability (screening),…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-03 Yue Liu , P. Paul Ruden

We generalize the topological response theory of three-dimensional topological insulators (TI) to metallic systems-specifically, doped TI with finite bulk carrier density and a time-reversal symmetry breaking field near the surface. We show…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-12-15 Maissam Barkeshli , Xiao-Liang Qi

An arbitrarily small concentration of impurities can affect the spin Hall conductivity in a two-dimensional semiconductor system. We develop a Boltzmann-like equation that can be used for impurity scattering with arbitrary angular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Shytov , E. G. Mishchenko , H. -A. Engel , B. I. Halperin

We investigate the conductivity of charge carriers confined to a two-dimensional system with the non-parabolic dispersion $k^N$ with $N$ being an arbitrary natural number. A delta-shaped scattering potential is assumed as the major source…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-24 Bretislav Sopik , Janik Kailasvuori , Maxim Trushin