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In nanophotonics, small mode volumes, high-quality factor (Q) resonances, and large field enhancements without metals, fundamentally scale with the refractive index and are key for many implementations involving light-matter interactions.…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-08 Danveer Singh , Sukanta Nandi , Yafit Fleger , Shany Z. Cohen , Tomer Lewi

Topological insulators (TIs) are materials that are insulating in the bulk but have zero band gap surface states with linear dispersion and are protected by time reversal symmetry. These unique characteristics could pave the way for many…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-02-22 Thomas K. Reid , S. Pamir Alpay , Alexander V. Balatsky , Sanjeev K. Nayak

Moir\'e materials host a wealth of intertwined correlated and topological states of matter, all arising from flat electronic bands with nontrivial quantum geometry. A prominent example is the family of alternating-twist magic-angle graphene…

Interfaces between exfoliated topological insulator Bi2Se3 and several transition metals deposited by sputtering were studied by XPS, SIMS, UPS and contact I-V measurements. Chemically clean interfaces can be achieved when coating Bi2Se3…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-12 Weiguang Ye , A. B. Pakhomov , Shuigang Xu , Huanhuan Lu , Zefei Wu , Yu Han , Tianyi Han , Yingying Wu , Gen Long , Jiangxiazi Lin , Gu Xu , Yuan Cai , Lu-Tao Weng , Ning Wang

Three dimensional (3D) topological insulators (TIs) are an important class of materials with applications in electronics, spintronics and quantum computing. With the recent development of truly bulk insulating 3D TIs, it has become possible…

Graphene, the atomic-thin layer of carbon atoms, was first isolated on an insulating substrate in 2004 by two groups in Manchester University [1, 2] and Columbia [3]. Those milestone experiments established the Dirac nature of the charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-26 J. Cayssol

Topological insulators (TIs) constitute a new class of materials with an energy gap in the bulk and peculiar metallic states on the surface. To date, most experiments have focused on probing the surface electronic structure of these…

Three dimensional topological insulator crystals consist of an insulating bulk enclosed by metallic surfaces, and detailed theoretical predictions about the surface state band topology and spin texture are available. While several…

Topological insulators (TI) are promising materials for future spintronics applications and their epitaxial integration would allow the realization of new hybrid interfaces. As the first materials studied, Bismuth Antimony alloys (Bi1-xSbx)…

Topological insulators (TIs) present a neoteric class of materials, which support delocalised, conducting surface states despite an insulating bulk. Due to their intriguing electronic properties, their optical properties have received…

We investigate scattering of the topological surface state of a three-dimensional time-reversal invariant topological insulator when graphene is deposited on the topological-insulator surface. Specifically, we consider the (111) surface of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-29 Christophe De Beule , Mohammad Zarenia , Bart Partoens

Three-dimensional topological insulators (TIs) are a perfectly tuned quantum-mechanical machinery in which counter-propagating and oppositely spin-polarized conduction channels balance each other on the surface of the material. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-04 A. I. Figueroa , T. Hesjedal , N. -J. Steinke

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 discovery of topological insulators (TIs), materials with bulk band gaps and protected cross-gap surface states, in compounds such as Bi2Se3 has generated much interest in identifying topological surface states (TSSs) in other classes…

The topological properties of the bulk band structure of a three-dimensional topological insulator (TI) manifest themselves in the form of metallic surface states. In this paper, we propose a probe which directly couples to an exotic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Sthitadhi Roy , Kush Saha , Sourin Das

Pure Topological Insulating materials preserve a unique electronic state comprising of bulk insulating gap and conducting surface states. Here we use bulk Bi2Se3 single crystals possessing Se vacancy defects as a prototype topological…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-13 Amit Jash , Kamalika Nath , T. R. Devidas , A. Bharathi , S. S. Banerjee

Graphene-based materials show promise for spintronic applications due to their potentially large spin coherence length. On the other hand, because of their small intrinsic spin-orbit interaction, an external magnetic source is desirable in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Paolo Michetti , Patrik Recher

We have performed angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy on (PbSe)5(Bi2Se3)3m, which forms a natural multilayer heterostructure consisting of a topological insulator (TI) and an ordinary insulator. For m = 2, we observed a gapped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 K. Nakayama , K. Eto , Y. Tanaka , T. Sato , S. Souma , T. Takahashi , Kouji Segawa , Yoichi Ando

Topological superconductors (TSCs) are of significant current interest because they offer promising platforms for finding Majorana fermions. Here we report a new superconductor synthesized by intercalating Cu into a naturally-formed…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-19 Satoshi Sasaki , Kouji Segawa , Yoichi Ando

The complex electronic properties of $\mathrm{ZrTe_5}$ have recently stimulated in-depth investigations that assigned this material to either a topological insulator or a 3D Dirac semimetal phase. Here we report a comprehensive experimental…