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Topological insulators are guaranteed to support metallic surface states on an insulating bulk, and one should thus expect that the electronic transport in these materials is dominated by the surfaces states. Alas, due to the high remaining…

Topological insulators are known to their metallic surface states, a result of strong-spin-orbital coupling, that show unique surface transport phenomenon. But these surface transports are buried in presence of metallic bulk conduction. We…

The transport of energy through 1-dimensional (1D) waveguiding channels can be affected by sub-wavelength disorder, resulting in undesirable localization and backscattering phenomena. However, quantized disorder-resilient transport is…

We examine the transport properties of magnetically doped topological insulator (TI) thin films subject to correlated non-magnetic disorder. For the disorder we choose a quasi-periodic potential with a random phase. We restrict the disorder…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 Takuya Okugawa , Tanay Nag , Dante M. Kennes

We investigate the finite-size scaling behavior of the conductivity in a two-dimensional Dirac electron gas within a chiral sigma model. Based on the fact that the conductivity is a function of system size times scattering rate, we obtain a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-01 Andreas Sinner , Klaus Ziegler

Topological insulators (TIs) are new insulating materials with exotic surface states, where the motion of charge carriers is described by the Dirac equations and their spins are locked in a perpendicular direction to their momentum. Recent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-01 Fei-Xiang Xiang , Xiao-Lin Wang , Shi-Xue Dou

In two dimensions chaotic level-statistics is expected for massless Dirac fermions in the presence of disorder. For weakly disordered graphene flakes with zigzag edges the obtained level-spacing distribution in the Dirac region is neither…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-02-12 H. Amanatidis , I. Kleftogiannis , D. E. Katsanos , S. N. Evangelou

Topological insulators are a novel class of quantum matter with a gapped insulating bulk yet gapless spin helical Dirac fermion conducting surface states. Here, we report local and non-local electrical and magneto transport measurements in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 Yang Xu , Ireneusz Miotkowski , Yong P. Chen

Weak antilocalization measurements has become a standard tool for studying quantum coherent transport in topological materials. It is often used to extract information about number of conducting channels and dephasing length of topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-21 K. Dybko , G. P. Mazur , W. Wolkanowicz , M. Szot , P. Dziawa , J. Z. Domagala , M. Wiater , T. Wojtowicz , G. Grabecki , T. Story

We study the effect of electrostatic disorder on the conductivity of a three-dimensional antiferromagnetic insulator (a stack of quantum anomalous Hall layers with staggered magnetization). The phase diagram contains regions where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-13 P. Baireuther , J. M. Edge , I. C. Fulga , C. W. J. Beenakker , J. Tworzydło

Low energy excitation of surface states of a three-dimensional topological insulator (3DTI) can be described by Dirac fermions. By using a tight-binding model, the transport properties of the surface states in a uniform magnetic field is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-16 Yan-Yang Zhang , Xiang-Rong Wang , X. C. Xie

It has been recently established that transport measurements in the nonlinear regime can give direct access to the quantum metric (QM): the real part of the quantum geometric tensor characterizing the geometry of the electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Mario Cuoco , Carmine Ortix

We study the quantum correction to conductivity on the surface of cubic topological Kondo insulators with multiple Dirac bands. We consider the model of time-reversal invariant disorder which induces the scattering of the electrons within…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-21 Maxim Dzero , Maxim G. Vavilov , Kostyantyn Kechedzhi , Victor Galitski

We report magnetotransport studies on a gated strained HgTe device. This material is a threedimensional topological insulator and exclusively shows surface state transport. Remarkably, the Landau level dispersion and the accuracy of the…

We study numerically the form of the conductance distribution in the non-metallic regime for (1) weakly disordered systems which become insulating due to increase of the system length and (2) cubic d-dimensional systems, in which…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Markos

We present low-temperature transport measurements of a gate-tunable thin film topological insulator system that features high mobility and low carrier density. Upon gate tuning to a regime around the charge neutrality point, we infer an…

In this report, we scrutinize the thickness dependent resistivity data from the recent literature on electrical transport measurements in topological insulators. A linear increase in resistivity with increase in thickness is expected in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-12 Sourabh Barua , K. P. Rajeev

We investigate interaction effects in three dimensional weak topological insulators (TI) with an even number of Dirac cones on the surface. We find that the surface states can be gapped by a surface charge density wave (CDW) order without…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-15 Chao-Xing Liu , Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Some Kondo insulators are expected to possess topologically protected surface states with linear Dirac spectrum, the topological Kondo insulators. Because the bulk states of these systems typically have heavy effective electron masses, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-14 Christopher Triola , Jian-Xin Zhu , Albert Migliori , Alexander V. Balatsky

Time-dependent perturbations can drive a trivial two-dimensional band insulator into a quantum Hall-like phase, with protected nonequilibrium states bound to its edges. We propose an experiment to probe the existence of these topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Benjamin M. Fregoso , Jan P. Dahlhaus , Joel E. Moore