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The emergence of topological order in graphene is in great demand for the realization of quantum spin Hall states. Recently, it is theoretically proposed that the spin textures of surface states in topological insulator can be directly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-06 Liang Zhang , Ben-Chuan Lin , Yan-Fei Wu , Jun Xu , Dapeng Yu , Zhi-Min Liao

We characterize the occupied and unoccupied electronic structure of the topological insulator Bi$_2$Se$_3$ by one-photon and two-photon angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and slab band structure calculations. We reveal a second,…

Topological insulator (TI) surface states exert strong spin-orbit torques. When the magnetization is in the plane its interaction with the TI conduction electrons is non-trivial, and is influenced by extrinsic spin-orbit scattering. This is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-17 Mohsen Farokhnezhad , James H. Cullen , Dimitrie Culcer

The recently discovered three dimensional or bulk topological insulators are expected to exhibit exotic quantum phenomena. It is believed that a trivial insulator can be twisted into a topological state by modulating the spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-24 Su-Yang Xu , Y. Xia , L. A. Wray , D. Qian , Shuang Jia , J. H. Dil , F. Meier , J. Osterwalder , B. Slomski , H. Lin , R. J. Cava , M. Z. Hasan

Topological insulators are a new phase of matter that exhibits exotic surface electronic properties. Determining the spin texture of this class of material is of paramount importance for both fundamental understanding of its topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-26 Yihua Wang , Nuh Gedik

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

Gapless surface states on topological insulators are protected from elastic scattering on non-magnetic impurities which makes them promising candidates for low-power electronic applications. However, for wide-spread applications, these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-07-04 Z. -H. Pan , E. Vescovo , A. V. Fedorov , G. D. Gu , T. Valla

We study and classify the proximity-induced superconducting pairing in a topological insulator (TI)-superconductor (SC) hybrid structure for SCs with different symmetries. The Dirac surface state gives a coupling between spin-singlet and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-06-26 Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Alexander V. Balatsky

Topological insulators are materials with an insulating bulk interior while maintaining gapless boundary states against back scattering. Bi$_2$Se$_3$ is a prototypical topological insulator with a Dirac-cone surface state around $\Gamma$.…

The spin-helical surface states in three-dimensional topological insulator (TI), such as Bi2Se3, are predicted to have superior efficiency in converting charge current into spin polarization. This property is said to be responsible for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-03 Jia Zhang , Julian P. Velev , Xiaoqian Dang , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

When a charge current is injected into the surface state of a topological insulator (TI), the resulting shift of the spin-momentum-locked Fermi surface leads to the appearance of a net spin polarization. The helical spin structure of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-12 Linh T. Dang , Oliver Breunig , Zhiwei Wang , Henry F. Legg , Yoichi Ando

The helical spin texture on the surface of topological crystalline insulators (TCI) makes these materials attractive for application in spintronics. In this work, spin-polarization and electronic structure of surface states of…

The surface of a topological insulator is a closed two dimensional manifold. The surface states are described by the Dirac Hamiltonian in curved two dimensional spaces. For a slab-like sample with a magnetic field perpendicular to its top…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Dung-Hai Lee

Surface states of topological noncentrosymmetric superconductors exhibit intricate helical spin textures, i.e., the spin orientation of the surface quasiparticles is coupled to their momentum. Using quasiclassical theory, we study the spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-01-19 P. M. R. Brydon , Andreas P. Schnyder , Carsten Timm

The first experimental evidence is presented of the topological insulator state in PbBi$_{2}$Te$_{4}$. A single surface Dirac cone is observed by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) with synchrotron radiation. Topological…

Topological states of matter originate from distinct topological electronic structures of materials. As for strong topological insulators (STIs), the topological surface (interface) is a direct consequence of electronic structure transition…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-16 Bin Li , Qiangsheng Lu , Shuigang Xu , Yipu Xia , Wingkin Ho , Ning Wang , Chang Liu , Maohai Xie

Non-Hermitian systems have been discussed mostly in the context of open systems and nonequilibrium. Recent experimental progress is much from optical, cold-atomic, and classical platforms due to the vast tunability and clear identification…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-25 Xiao-Xiao Zhang , Naoto Nagaosa

We study the spin texture of a generic helical liquid, the edge modes of a two-dimensional topological insulator with broken axial spin-symmetry. By considering honeycomb and square lattice realizations of topological insulators, we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-10 Alexia Rod , Thomas L. Schmidt , Stephan Rachel

Topological insulators are electronic materials that have a bulk band gap like an ordinary insulator, but have protected conducting states on their edge or surface. The 2D topological insulator is a quantum spin Hall insulator, which is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 M. Z. Hasan , C. L. Kane

Electrons on the surface of a strong topological insulator, such as Bi2Te3 or Bi1-xSnx, form a topologically protected helical liquid whose excitation spectrum contains an odd number of massless Dirac fermions. A theoretical survey and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 H. -M. Guo , M. Franz