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The large spin orbit coupling in topological insulators results in helical spin-textured Dirac surface states that are attractive for topological spintronics. These states generate an efficient spin-orbit torque on proximal magnetic moments…

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The spatially inhomogeneity in a magnetic crystal give rise to electric polarization, which is known as inhomogeneous magnetoelectric effect. Similarly, an inhomogeneous magnetoelectronic effect in a conducting multiferroic material give…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-12 Paul C. Lou , Ravindra G. Bhardwaj , Anand Katailiha , Ward Beyermann , Sandeep Kumar

Negative longitudinal magnetoresistance, in the presence of an external magnetic field parallel to the direction of an applied current, has recently been experimentally verified in Weyl semimetals and topological insulators in the bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 S. Nandy , A. Taraphder , Sumanta Tewari

We present a general theory about electron orbital motions in topological insulators. An in-plane electric field drives spin-up and spin-down electrons bending to opposite directions, and skipping orbital motions, a counterpart of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-14 Li-kun Shi , Shou-cheng Zhang , Kai Chang

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

Detection and manipulation of electrons' spins are key prerequisites for spin-based electronics or spintronics. This is usually achieved by contacting ferromagnets with metals or semiconductors, in which the relaxation of spins due to…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-05 Y. Shiomi , K. Nomura , Y. Kajiwara , K. Eto , M. Novak , Kouji Segawa , Yoichi Ando , E. Saitoh

We study theoretically the charged current above a topological insulator (TI) separated by a ferromagnetic insulating layer. An unconventional Hall response occurs in the conducting layer on top of the TI which approaches to a constant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Jiadong Zang , Naoto Nagaosa

We numerically investigate the surface states of a strong topological insulator in the presence of strong electron-electron interactions. We choose a spherical topological insulator geometry to make the surface amenable to a finite size…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-08 T. Neupert , S. Rachel , R. Thomale , M. Greiter

In recent attempts to observe axion electrodynamics, much effort has focused on trilayer heterostructures of magnetic topological insulators, and in particular on the examination of a so-called zero Hall plateau, which has misguidedly been…

Conventional topological Hall effects (THE) require conducting magnets, leaving insulating systems largely inaccessible. Here we introduce the interfacial topological Hall effect (ITHE), where the noncoplanar spin textures of insulating…

Surface electrons of strong topological insulator wires acquire a Berry phase difference of $\pi$ on orbiting the wire. This can be detected in response of clean wires (whose Fermi level is tuned to the Dirac point) to the presence of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-30 Eugene B. Kolomeisky , Joseph P. Straley

Magnetotransport through cylindrical topological insulator (TI) nanowires is governed by the interplay between quantum confinement and geometric (Aharonov-Bohm and Berry) phases. Here, we argue that the much broader class of TI nanowires…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-01 Raphael Kozlovsky , Ansgar Graf , Denis Kochan , Klaus Richter , Cosimo Gorini

The modern theory of charge polarization in solids is based on a generalization of Berry's phase. Its possible quantization lies at the heart of our understanding of all systems with topological band structures that were discovered over the…

Collective plasmon excitations in a helical electron liquid on the surface of strong three-dimensional topological insulator are considered. The properties and internal structure of these excitations are studied. Due to spin-momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-18 D. K. Efimkin , Yu. E. Lozovik , A. A. Sokolik

We study mesoscopic spin Hall effect on the surface of topological insulator with a step-function potential. The giant spin polarization induced by a transverse electric current is derived analytically by using McMillan method in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-05 Jin-Hua Gao , Jie Yuan , Wei-Qiang Chen , Yi Zhou , Fu-Chun Zhang

When electrons are subject to a large external magnetic field, the conventional charge quantum Hall effect \cite{Klitzing,Tsui} dictates that an electronic excitation gap is generated in the sample bulk, but metallic conduction is permitted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-08 D. Hsieh , D. Qian , L. Wray , Y. Xia , Y. S. Hor , R. J. Cava , M. Z. Hasan

The surface quantum Hall state, magneto-electric phenomena and their connection to axion electrodynamics have been studied intensively for topological insulators. One of the obstacles for observing such effects comes from nonzero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 G. Tkachov , E. M. Hankiewicz

We study the charge and spin transport under high electric field (up to several kV/cm) on the surface of topological insulator Bi$_2$Se$_3$, where the electron-surface optical phonon scattering dominates except at very low temperature. Due…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-28 P. Zhang , M. W. Wu

We have studied the tachyonic excitations in the junction of two topological insulators in the presence of an external magnetic field. The Landau levels, evaluated from an effective two-dimensional model for tachyons, and from the junction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Vadim M. Apalkov , Tapash Chakraborty

The quantized version of the anomalous Hall effect has been predicted to occur in magnetic topological insulators, but the experimental realization has been challenging. Here, we report the observation of the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH)…