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We study non-interacting electrons in disordered one-dimensional materials which exhibit a spectral gap, in each of the ten Altland-Zirnbauer symmetry classes. We define an appropriate topology on the space of Hamiltonians so that the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-07-04 Jui-Hui Chung , Jacob Shapiro

We demonstrate advantages of samples made by mechanical stacking of exfoliated van der Waals materials for controlling the topological surface state of a 3-dimensional topological insulator (TI) via interaction with an adjacent magnet…

We consider chiral electrons moving along the 1D helical edge of a 2D topological insulator and interacting with a disordered chain of Kondo impurities. Assuming the electron-spin couplings of random anisotropies, we map this system to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 B. L. Altshuler , I. L. Aleiner , V. I. Yudson

Under non-equilibrium conditions, bosonic modes can become dynamically unstable with an exponentially growing occupation. On the other hand, topological band structures give rise to symmetry protected midgap states. In this letter, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-25 G. Engelhardt , M. Benito , G. Platero , T. Brandes

We show that hybrid structures of topological insulators and materials without topological protection can be employed to create perfectly conducting channels hosted in the non-topological part. These states inherit the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-26 Sven Essert , Viktor Krueckl , Klaus Richter

Topological insulators (TI) are a new class of quantum materials with insulating bulk enclosed by topologically protected metallic boundaries. The surface states of three-dimensional TIs have spin helical Dirac structure, and are robust…

Topological states require the presence of extended bulk states, as usually found in the picture of energy bands and topological states bridging the bulk gaps. But in driven systems this can be circumvented, and one can get topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Esteban A. Rodriguez-Mena , L. E. F. Foa Torres

Topological insulators (TIs) are a new class of matter characterized by the unique electronic properties of an insulating bulk and metallic boundaries arising from non-trivial bulk band topology. While the surfaces of TIs have been well…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-10-09 L. Seixas , D. West , A. Fazzio , S. B. Zhang

An electron moving in a magnetically ordered background feels an effective magnetic field that can be both stronger and more rapidly varying than typical externally applied fields. One consequence is that insulating magnetic materials in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Joel E. Moore , Ying Ran , Xiao-Gang Wen

We study the effect of spin-momentum locking inhomogeneity on the planar Hall effect in topological insulators (TIs). Using the minimal model describing surface states of 3D TIs and semiclassical Boltzmann formalism, we have derived the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-18 A. N. Zarezad , J. Barnaś , A. Qaiumzadeh , A. Dyrdał

Topological insulators (TIs) are bulk insulators that possess robust helical conducting states along their interfaces with conventional insulators. A tremendous research effort has recently been devoted to TI-based heterostructures, in…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-01-17 Xiaoguang Li , Gufeng Zhang , Guangfen Wu , Hua Chen , Dimitrie Culcer , Zhenyu Zhang

We consider a one-dimensional, time-reversal-invariant system with attractive interactions and spin-orbit coupling. Such a system is gapless due to the strong quantum fluctuations of the superconducting order parameter. However, we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Anna Keselman , Erez Berg

Topological insulators~(TIs) are a new class of materials that resemble ordinary band insulators in terms of a bulk band gap but exhibit protected metallic states on their boundaries. In this modern direction, higher-order TIs~(HOTIs) are a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-16 Arnob Kumar Ghosh , Tanay Nag , Arijit Saha

Although topological insulators (TIs) are known to be robust against non-magnetic perturbations and exhibit edge or surface states as their distinct feature, experimentally it is known that vacancies often occur in these materials and…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-06-03 Shi-Ting Lee , Shin-Ming Huang , Chung-Yu Mou

We study the properties of the spinor wavefunction in a strongly disordered environment on a two-dimensional lattice. By employing a transfer-matrix calculation we find that there is a transition from delocalized to localized states at a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-10-09 A. Hill , K. Ziegler

We consider the proximity effect in a Topological Insulator sandwiched between two conventional superconductors, by comparing s-wave spin singlet superconducting pairing correlations and odd-parity triplet pairing correlations with zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 A. Tagliacozzo , P. Lucignano , F. Tafuri

We experimentally investigate the tendency of localization in the bulk and the topological surface states in topological insulators Pb(Bi1-xSbx)2Te4 (x=0.793-0.818) through detailed transport measurements. The bulk electronic states in the…

A key feature of topological insulators is the robustness of the electron energy spectrum. At a surface of a topological insulator, Dirac point is protected by the characteristic symmetry of the system. The breaking of the symmetry opens a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 S. Stagraczynski , L. Chotorlishvili , V. K. Dugaev , C. -L. Jia , A. Ernst , A. Komnik , J. Berakdar

Topological insulators are new quantum states with helical gapless edge or surface states inside the bulk band gap.These topological surface states are robust against the weak time-reversal invariant perturbations, such as lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-07 Haijun Zhang , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Two-dimensional (2D) topological insulators (TIs) hold promise for applications in spintronics based on the fact that the propagation direction of edge electrons of a 2D TI is robustly linked to their spin origination. Here, with the use of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-02 Yandong Ma , Liangzhi Kou , Ying Dai , Thomas Heine