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We investigate the charge conductivity and current-induced spin polarization on the surface state of a three-dimensional topological insulator by including the hexagonal warping effect of Fermi surface both in classical and quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-01 C. M. Wang , F. J. Yu

High-frequency transport in the edge states of the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect has to date rarely been explored, though it could cast light on the scattering mechanisms taking place therein. We here report on the measurement of the…

We use Dirac quantization of flux to study fractional charges and axion angles \theta in interacting topological insulators with gapless surface modes protected by time-reversal symmetry. In interacting topological insulators, there are two…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-10-12 K. -S. Park , H. Han

The quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect is the property of a new state of matter which preserves time-reversal, has an energy gap in the bulk, but has topologically robust gapless states at the edge. Recently, it has been shown that HgTe quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xi Dai , Taylor L. Hughes , Xiao-Liang Qi , Zhong Fang , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Three-dimensional topological insulators of finite thickness can show the quantum Hall effect (QHE) at the filling factor $\nu=0$ under an external magnetic field if there is a finite potential difference between the top and bottom…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-14 Takahiro Morimoto , Akira Furusaki , Naoto Nagaosa

Two-dimensional topological insulators (2DTIs), which host the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect, are one of the key materials in next-generation spintronic devices. To date, experimental evidence of the QSH effect has only been observed in a…

Quantum Hall effect (QHE) is a macroscopic manifestation of quantized states which only occurs in confined two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) systems. Experimentally, QHE is hosted in high mobility 2DEG with large external magnetic field…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-17 Gang Qiu , Yixiu Wang , Yifan Nie , Yongping Zheng , Kyeongjae Cho , Wenzhuo Wu , Peide D. Ye

Instability of quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect has been studied as function of electric current and temperature in ferromagnetic topological insulator thin films. We find that a characteristic current for the breakdown of the QAH effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Minoru Kawamura , Ryutaro Yoshimi , Atsushi Tsukazaki , Kei S. Takahashi , Masashi Kawasaki , Yoshinori Tokura

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

The quantum Hall effect is investigated in a high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas on the surface of a cylinder. The novel topology leads to a spatially varying filling factor along the current path. The resulting inhomogeneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-01 K. -J. Friedland , A. Siddiki , R. Hey , H. Kostial , A. Riedel , D. K. Maude

Topological insulators can be seen as band-insulators with a conducting surface. The surface carriers are Dirac particles with an energy which increases linearly with momentum. This confers extraordinary transport properties characteristic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-12 Clément Bouvier , Tristan Meunier , Philippe Ballet , Xavier Baudry , Roman Bernd Günter Kramer , Laurent Lévy

The search for topologically non-trivial states of matter has become an important goal for condensed matter physics. Recently, a new class of topological insulators has been proposed. These topological insulators have an insulating gap in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Markus Koenig , Hartmut Buhmann , Laurens W. Molenkamp , Taylor L. Hughes , Chao-Xing Liu , Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We study theoretically the role of quenched magnetic disorder at the surface of a topological insulator by numerical simulation and scaling analysis. It is found that all the surface states are localized while the transverse conductivity is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-19 Kentaro Nomura , Naoto Nagaosa

In strongly correlated materials, quasiparticle excitations can carry fractional quantum numbers. An intriguing possibility is the formation of fractionalized, charge-neutral fermions, e.g., spinons and fermionic excitons, that result in…

Topological insulators have been predicted to exhibit a variety of interesting phenomena including a quantized magnetoelectric response and novel spintronics effects due to spin textures on their surfaces. However, experimental observation…

The realization of the quantum spin Hall effect in HgTe quantum wells has led to the development of topological materials which, in combination with magnetism and superconductivity, are predicted to host chiral Majorana fermions. However,…

We have observed the Hall effect in the field-induced accumulation layer on the surface of small-molecule organic semiconductor. The Hall mobility mu_H increases with decreasing temperature in both the intrinsic (high-temperature) and…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Podzorov , E. Menard , J. A. Rogers , M. E. Gershenson

Magnetically doped topological insulators have been extensively studied over the past decade as a material platform to exhibit quantum anomalous Hall effect. Most material realizations are magnetically doped and despite material advances…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Zhenisbek Tagay , Hee Taek Yi , Deepti Jain , Seongshik Oh , N. P. Armitage

Topological insulators (TIs) represent a novel quantum state of matter, characterized by edge or surface-states, showing up on the topological character of the bulk wave functions. Allowing electrons to move along their surface, but not…

The ferromagnet-topological insulator-ferromagnet (FM-TI-FM) junction exhibits thermal and electrical quantum Hall effects. The generated Hall voltage and transverse temperature gradient can be controlled by the directions of magnetizations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 A. L. Chudnovskiy , V. Kagalovsky