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We study magneto-optical (MO) properties of a semi-Dirac nanoribbon in presence of a perpendicular magnetic field using Kernel Polynomial Method (KPM) based on the Keldysh formalism in the experimental (terahertz frequency) regime. For…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-26 Priyanka Sinha , Shuichi Murakami , Saurabh Basu

The effect of magnetic field on an ultrathin magnetic topological insulator film with structural inversion asymmetry is investigated. We introduce the phase diagram, calculate the Landau-level spectrum analytically and simulate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-13 Shu-feng Zhang , Hua Jiang , X. C. Xie , Qing-feng Sun

Manifestation of chiral excitons on surfaces of topological insulator thin film with magnetically induced energy gap in the surface spectrum in magnetooptical Kerr and Faraday effects is analyzes. Excitonic contribution to a surface optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-14 D. K. Efimkin , Yu. E. Lozovik

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

Two-dimensional topological insulators are characterized by gapped bulk states and gapless helical edge states, i.e. time-reversal symmetric edge states accommodating a pair of counter-propagating electrons. An external magnetic field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-02 G. Tkachov , E. M. Hankiewicz

The surface states of a topological insulator in a fine-tuned magnetic field are ideal candidates for realizing a topological metal which is protected against disorder. Its signatures are (1) a conductance plateau in long wires in a finely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Quansheng Wu , Vincent E. Sacksteder

Optical absorption properties of magnetoexcitons in topological insulator bilayers under a strong magnetic field are theoretically studied. A general analytical formula of optical absorption selection rule is obtained in the noninteracting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-19 Zhigang Wang , Zhen-Guo Fu , Ping Zhang

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 unique electronic properties of the surface electrons in a topological insulator are protected by time-reversal symmetry. Circularly polarized light naturally breaks time-reversal symmetry, which may lead to an exotic surface quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-29 Y. H. Wang , H. Steinberg , P. Jarillo-Herrero , N. Gedik

In transition metal dichalcogenides the spin-orbit interaction affects differently the conduction and valence band energies as functions of $k$ and the band gap is large. Consequently, when a perpendicular magnetic field $B$ is applied the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 M. Zubair , M. Tahir , P. Vasilopoulos

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…

When Dirac electrons on the surface of a topological insulator are gapped, the resulting quantum anomalous Hall effect leads to universal magneto-optical Faraday and Kerr effects in the low frequency limit. However, at higher frequencies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-28 Justin H. Wilson , Dmitry K. Efimkin , Victor M. Galitski

The orbital motion of electrons in a three-dimensional solid can generate a pseudoscalar magnetoelectric coupling $\theta$, a fact we derive for the single-particle case using a recent theory of polarization in weakly inhomogeneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-16 Andrew M. Essin , Joel E. Moore , David Vanderbilt

We report magnetotransport studies on a gated strained HgTe device. This material is a threedimensional topological insulator and exclusively shows surface state transport. Remarkably, the Landau level dispersion and the accuracy of the…

Hybrid excitations, called polaritons, emerge in systems with strong light-matter coupling. Usually, they dominate the linear and nonlinear optical properties with applications in quantum optics. Here, we show the crucial role of the…

The quantum Hall effect is studied in the topological insulator BiSbTeSe$_2$. By employing top- and back-gate electric fields at high magnetic field, the Landau levels of the Dirac cones in the top and bottom topological surface states can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-29 Chuan Li , Bob de Ronde , Artem Nikitin , Yingkai Huang , Mark S. Golden , Anne de Visser , Alexander Brinkman

We investigate the influence of the hexagonal warping on the transport properties of the topological insulators. We study the charge conductivity within Kubo formalism in the first Born approximation using low energy expansion of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-22 R. S. Akzyanov , A. L. Rakhmanov

Massless Dirac fermions occur as low-energy modes in several quasi-two-dimensional condensed matter systems such as graphene, the surface of bulk topological insulators, and in layered organic semiconductors. When the rotational symmetry in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-27 Judit Sári , Mark O. Goerbig , Csaba Toke

We propose to engineer time-reversal-invariant topological insulators in two-dimensional (2D) crystals of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs). We note that, at low doping, semiconducting TMDCs under shear strain will develop…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-13 M. A. Cazalilla , H. Ochoa , F. Guinea

We propose a surface-edge state theory for half quantized Hall conductance of surface states in topological insulators. The gap opening of a single Dirac cone for the surface states in a weak magnetic field is demonstrated. We find a new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-29 Rui-Lin Chu , Junren Shi , Shun-Qing Shen