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We study the interface physics of bipartite magnetic materials deposited on a topological insulator. This comprises antiferromagnets as well as ferrimagnets and ferromagnets with multiple magnetic moments per unit cell. If an energy gap is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-24 Stefan Rex , Flavio Nogueira , Asle Sudbø

The Dirac surface states of topological insulators offer a unique possibility for creating spin polarized charge currents due to the spin-momentum locking. Here we demonstrate that the control over the bulk and surface contribution is…

Topological insulators are a new class of materials that have engendered considerable research interest among the condensed matter community owing primarily to their application prospects in quantum computations and spintronics. Many of the…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-24 Nitish Kumar Gupta , Arun M. Jayannavar

A recent theoretical work [Nature Phys., 7, 490 (2011)] has demonstrated that external non-equilibrium perturbations may be used to convert a two-dimensional semiconductor, initially in a topologically trivial state, into a Floquet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-26 Netanel H. Lindner , Doron L. Bergman , Gil Refael , Victor Galitski

Inversion of Radon transforms is the mathematical foundation of many modern tomographic imaging modalities. In this paper we study a conical Radon transform, which is important for computed tomography taking Compton scattering into account.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-19 Markus Haltmeier

Quantized responses are important tools for understanding and characterizing the universal features of topological phases of matter. In this work, we consider a class of topological crystalline insulators in $3$D with $C_n$ lattice rotation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-07 Julian May-Mann , Mark R. Hirsbrunner , Xuchen Cao , Taylor L. Hughes

The paper presents the author view on spin-rooted properties of graphene supported by numerous experimental and calculation evidences. Dirac fermions of crystalline graphene and local spins of graphene molecules are suggested to meet a…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-28 Elena F. Sheka

Statistical properties of classical random process are considered in tomographic representation. The Radon integral transform is used to construct the tomographic form of kinetic equations. Relation of probability density on phase space for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-03 V. N. Chernega , V. I. Man'ko , B. I. Sadovnikov

We demonstrate via three examples that topological insulators (TI) offer a new platform for plasmonics. First, we show that the collective excitations of a thin slab of a TI display spin-charge separation. This gives rise to purely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-09 T. Stauber , G. Gómez-Santos , L. Brey

Using the integral transformation, the field-theoretical Hamiltonian of the statistical field theory of fluids is obtained, along with the microscopic expressions for the coefficients of the Hamiltonian. Applying this approach to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-06 Nikolai V. Brilliantov , J. Miguel Rubi , Yury A. Budkov

We have designed three-dimensional models of topological insulator thin films, showing a tunability of the odd number of Dirac cones on opposite surfaces driven by the atomic-scale geometry at the boundaries. This enables creation of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-03 David Soriano , Frank Ortmann , Stephan Roche

Graphene was the first material predicted to be a time-reversal-invariant topological insulator; however, the insulating gap is immeasurably small owing to the weakness of spin-orbit interactions in graphene. A recent experiment [1]…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Pouyan Ghaemi , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Taylor L. Hughes

Topological insulators are candidates to open up a novel route in spin based electronics. Different to traditional ferromagnetic materials, where the carrier spin-polarization and magnetization are based on the exchange interaction, the…

The transform considered in the paper averages a function supported in a ball in $\RR^n$ over all spheres centered at the boundary of the ball. This Radon type transform arises in several contemporary applications, e.g. in thermoacoustic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-06-09 M. Agranovsky , P. Kuchment , E. T. Quinto

Several novel imaging applications have lead recently to a variety of Radon type transforms, where integration is done over a family of conical surfaces. We call them \emph{cone transforms} (in 2D they are also called \emph{V-line} or…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-24 Fatma Terzioglu

Topological insulators are materials with an insulating bulk interior while maintaining gapless boundary states against back scattering. Bi$_2$Se$_3$ is a prototypical topological insulator with a Dirac-cone surface state around $\Gamma$.…

Twisting van der Waals heterostructures to induce correlated many-body states provides a novel tuning mechanism in solid-state physics. In this work, we theoretically investigate the fate of the surface Dirac cone of a three-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Jennifer Cano , Shiang Fang , J. H. Pixley , Justin H. Wilson

The topology of a topological material can be encoded in its surface states. These surface states can only be removed by a bulk topological quantum phase transition into a trivial phase. Here we use photoemission spectroscopy to image the…

We investigate the effect of a vertical electric field on a Dirac semimetal thin film. We show that through the interplay between the quantum confinement effect and the field-induced coupling between sub-bands, the sub-band gap can be tuned…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-05 Hui Pan , Meimei Wu , Ying Liu , Shengyuan A. Yang

Spin-transfer torque is one of the important physical quantities to understand for successful application of topological insulators to spintronics. In this paper, we present analytical expressions of the spin-transfer torques on a surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 Daichi Kurebayashi , Naoto Nagaosa