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Topological Insulators are the best thermoelectric materials involving a sophisticated physics beyond their solid state and electronic structure. We show that exists a topological contribution to the thermoelectric effect that arise between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-24 Daniel Baldomir , Daniel Faílde

Topological insulators are new quantum states with helical gapless edge or surface states inside the bulk band gap.These topological surface states are robust against the weak time-reversal invariant perturbations, such as lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-07 Haijun Zhang , Shou-Cheng Zhang

The protected helical surface states in thin films of topological insulators (TI) are subject to inter-surface hybridisation. This leads to gap opening and spin texture changes as witnessed in photoemission and quasiparticle interference…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-23 Peter Thalmeier , Alireza Akbari

Single-Dirac-cone topological insulators (TI) are the first experimentally discovered class of three dimensional topologically ordered electronic systems, and feature robust, massless spin-helical conducting surface states that appear at…

We report the first experimental study upon the optical trapping and manipulation of topological insulator (TI) particles. By virtue of the unique TI properties, which have a conducting surface and an insulating bulk, the particles present…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-09 W. H. Campos , J. M. Fonseca , V. E. de Carvalho , J. B. S. Mendes , M. S. Rocha , W. A. Moura-Melo

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

The search for new topological materials and states of matter is presently at the forefront of quantum materials research. One powerful approach to novel topological phases beyond the thermodynamic space is to combine different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Pavel P. Shibayev , Elio J. König , Maryam Salehi , Jisoo Moon , Myung-Geun Han , Seongshik Oh

The observed robustly quantized Hall conductance in quantum Hall systems and Chern insulators (CI) have so far been understood in terms of the topology of isolated systems, which are not coupled to leads. It is assumed that the leads act as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Satyam Sinha , Rekha Kumari , Junaid Majeed Bhat , Abhishek Dhar , R. Shankar

Topological insulators (TIs) are materials with unique surface conductive properties that distinguish them from normal insulators and have attracted significant interest due to their potential applications in electronics and spintronics.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-24 Qiang Sun , Eitan Dvorquez , Felipe Pinto , Mohan C. Mathpal , Jerónimo R. Maze , Brant C. Gibson , Andrew D. Greentree

Planar Hall effect (PHE) in topological insulators (TIs) is discussed as an effect that stems mostly from conduction due to topologically protected surface states. Although surfaces states play a critical role and are of utmost importance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Archit Bhardwaj , Syam Prasad P. , Karthik Raman , Dhavala Suri

Topological insulators (TIs) have attracted immense interest because they host helical surface states. Protected by time-reversal symmetry, they are robust to non-magnetic disorder. When superconductivity is induced in these helical states,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-06 A. D. K. Finck , C. Kurter , Y. S. Hor , D. J. Van Harlingen

Topological insulators (TIs) are quantum materials combining insulating bulk properties with conductive surface states protected by time-reversal symmetry. Their unique electromagnetic behavior originates from the topological…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-19 Sebastián Filipini

Certain insulating materials with strong spin-orbit coupling can conduct currents along their edges or surfaces. This phenomenon arises from the non-trivial topological properties of the electronic band-structure, and is somewhat similar to…

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Topological insulators have surface states with unique spin-orbit coupling. With impurities on the surface, the quasiparticle interference pattern is an effective way to reveal the topological nature of the surface states, which can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-03 Qin Liu , Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Motivated by the topologically insulating (TI) circuit of capacitors and inductors proposed and tested in arXiv:1309.0878, we present a related circuit with less elements per site. The normal mode frequency matrix of our circuit is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-05 Victor V. Albert , Leonid I. Glazman , Liang Jiang

We propose that the topological magneto-electric (ME) effect, a hallmark of topological insulators (TIs), can be realized in thin films of TIs in the $\nu=0$ quantum Hall state under magnetic field or by doping two magnetic ions with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 Takahiro Morimoto , Akira Furusaki , Naoto Nagaosa

Topological band insulators which are dynamically generated by electron-electron interactions have been the- oretically proposed in two and three dimensional lattice models. We present evidence that the two-dimensional version can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-11-15 Andreas Rüegg , Gregory A. Fiete

An electric charge near the surface of a topological insulator (TI) induces an image magnetic monopole. Here we study the spectra of hydrogenlike ions near the surface of a planar TI, taking into account the modifications which arise due to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 A. Martín-Ruiz , L. F. Urrutia

Topological insulators, along with Chern insulators and Quantum Hall insulator phases, are considered as paradigms for symmetry protected topological phases of matter. This article reports the experimental realization of the time-reversal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 Priya Tiwari , Saurabh Kumar Srivastav , Sujay Ray , Tanmoy Das , Aveek Bid