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The unconventional (half-integer) quantum Hall effect for a single species of Dirac fermions is analyzed. We discuss possible experimental measurements of the half-integer Hall conductance $g_{xy}$ of topological insulator surface states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-05 E. J. König , P. M. Ostrovsky , I. V. Protopopov , I. V. Gornyi , I. S. Burmistrov , A. D. Mirlin

The effect of quantizing magnetic field on the electron transport is investigated in a two dimensional topological insulator (2D TI) based on a 8 nm (013) HgTe quantum well (QW). The local resistance behavior is indicative of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 E. B. Olshanetsky , Z. D. Kvon , G. M. Gusev , N. N. Mikhailov , S. A. Dvoretsky

We investigated the magnetotransport properties of strained, 80nm thick HgTe layers featuring a high mobility of mu =4x10^5 cm^2/Vs. By means of a top gate the Fermi-energy is tuned from the valence band through the Dirac type surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 D. A. Kozlov , Z. D. Kvon , D. Weiss , E. B. Olshanetsky , N. N. Mikhailov , S. A. Dvoretsky

The detailed derivation of a theory for transport in quasi-two-dimensional metals, with small-angle elastic scattering and angle-independent inelastic scattering is presented. The transport equation is solved for a model Fermi surface…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Elihu Abrahams , C. M. Varma

Incorporating ferromagnetic dopants, such as chromium or vanadium, into thin films of the three-dimensional (3D) topological insulator (TI) (Bi,Sb)2Te3 has recently led to the realisation of the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE), a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 A. C. Mahoney , J. I. Colless , L. Peeters , S. J. Pauka , E. J. Fox , X. Kou , Lei Pan , K. L. Wang , D. Goldhaber-Gordon , D. J. Reilly

The band inversion of topological materials in three spatial dimensions is intimately connected to the parity anomaly of two-dimensional massless Dirac fermions. At finite magnetic fields, the parity anomaly reveals itself as a non-zero…

Thermoelectric coefficients of an ultra-thin topological insulator are presented here. The hybridization between top and bottom surface states of a topological insulator plays a significant role. In absence of magnetic field, thermopower…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-07 SK Firoz Islam , Tarun Kanti Ghosh

We investigate how a magnetic field induces one-dimensional edge channels when the two-dimensional surface states of three-dimensional topological insulators become gapped. The Hall effect, measured by contacting those channels, remains…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Matthias Sitte , Achim Rosch , Ehud Altman , Lars Fritz

The experimental observation of the long-sought quantum anomalous Hall effect was recently reported in magnetically doped topological insulator thin films [Chang et al., Science 340, 167 (2013)]. An intriguing observation is a rapid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-04 Hai-Zhou Lu , An Zhao , Shun-Qing Shen

Topologically-protected surface states present rich physics and promising spintronic, optoelectronic and photonic applications that require a proper understanding of their ultrafast carrier dynamics. Here, we investigate these dynamics in…

The discovery of the quantum Hall (QH) effect led to the realization of a topological electronic state with dissipationless currents circulating in one direction along the edge of a two dimensional electron layer under a strong magnetic…

The fractional quantum Hall (FQH) state is a topological state of matter resulting from the many-body effect of interacting electrons and is of vast interest in fundamental physics. The experimental observation of topological surface states…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-05-15 Dong-Xia Qu , Y. S. Hor , R. J. Cava

We investigate the quantum anomalous Hall Effect (QAHE) and related chiral transport in the millimeter-size (Cr0.12Bi0.26Sb0.62)2Te3 films. With high sample quality and robust magnetism at low temperatures, the quantized Hall conductance of…

A two-dimensional (2D) topological insulator (TI) exhibits the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect, in which topologically protected spin-polarized conducting channels exist at the sample edges. Experimental signatures of the QSH effect have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 Yanmeng Shi , Joshua Kahn , Ben Niu , Zaiyao Fei , Bosong Sun , Xinghan Cai , Brian A. Francisco , Di Wu , Zhi-Xun Shen , Xiaodong Xu , David H. Cobden , Yong-Tao Cui

We measure the Hall conductivity of a two-dimensional electron gas formed at a GaAs/AlGaAs heterojunction in the terahertz regime close to the cyclotron resonance frequency by employing a highly sensitive Faraday rotation method coupled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 A. V. Stier , C. T. Ellis , H. Zhang , D. Eason , G. Strasser , B. D. McCombe T. Morimoto , H. Aoki , J. Cerne

We study experimentally the transport properties of "inverted" semiconductor HgTe-based quantum well, which is related to the two-dimensional topological insulator, in diffusive transport regime. We perform nonlocal electrical measurements…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 G. M. Gusev , Z. D. Kvon , O. A. Shegai , N. N. Mikhailov , S. A. Dvoretsky , J. C. Portal

We demonstrate that the terahertz/infrared radiation induced photogalvanic effect, which is sensitive to the surface symmetry and scattering details, can be applied to study the high frequency conductivity of the surface states in…

We report the first experimental results of the magnetoresistance, Hall effect, and quantum Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations on single crystals of ZrTe, which was recently predicted to be a new type of topological semimetal hosting both…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-06-12 W. L. Zhu , J. B. He , S. Zhang , D. Chen , L. Shan , Z. A. Ren , G. F. Chen

We study the quantum Hall effect of Dirac fermions on the surface of a Wilson-Dirac type topological insulator thin film in the strong topological insulating phase. Although a magnetic field breaks time reversal symmetry of the bulk, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Takeshi Furusawa , Takahiro Fukui

The transport properties of the surface charge carriers of a three dimensional topological insulator under a terahertz (THz) field along with a resonant double barrier structure is theoretically analyzed within the framework of Floquet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-13 Puja Mondal , Sankalpa Ghosh , Manish Sharma