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We study the quantum Hall effect in the surface states of topological insulator in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field in the framework of edge states. Motion of Dirac fermions will form descrete Landau levels, among which a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-24 Shun-Qing Shen

Transport due to spin-helical massless Dirac fermion surface state is of paramount importance to realize various new physical phenomena in topological insulators, ranging from quantum anomalous Hall effect to Majorana fermions. However, one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-13 Luis A. Jauregui , Michael T. Pettes , Leonid P. Rokhinson , Li Shi , Yong P. Chen

Preceded by the discovery of topological insulators, Dirac and Weyl semimetals have become a pivotal direction of research in contemporary condensed matter physics. While easily accessible from a theoretical viewpoint, these topological…

We consider the transport properties of topological insulators surface states in the presence of uncorrelated point-like disorder, both in the classical and quantum regimes. The transport properties of those two-dimensional surface states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-24 Pierre Adroguer , David Carpentier , Jérôme Cayssol , Edmond Orignac

The newly-discovered three-dimensional strong topological insulators (STIs) exhibit topologically-protected Dirac surface states. While the STI surface state has been studied spectroscopically by e.g. photoemission and scanned probes,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-05 Dohun Kim , Sungjae Cho , Nicholas P. Butch , Paul Syers , Kevin Kirshenbaum , Shaffique Adam , Johnpierre Paglione , Michael S. Fuhrer

We discuss the surface magnetotransport in the quantum Hall (QH) ferromagnetic state expected in the organic Dirac fermion system \alpha-(BEDT-TTF)_2I_3. The QH ferromagnetic state is one of the possible \nu=0 QH states in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-23 Toshihito Osada

In Bi$_2$Te$_2$Se, the period of quantum oscillations arising from surface Dirac fermions can be increased 6-fold using ionic liquid gating. At large gate voltages, the Fermi energy reaches the $N$ = 1 Landau level in a 14-Tesla field. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-24 Jun Xiong , Yuehaw Khoo , Shuang Jia , R. J. Cava , N. P. Ong

The recent discovery of topological Dirac semimetals (DSM) has provoked intense curiosity not only on Weyl physics in solids, but also on topological phase transitions originating from DSM. One example is controlling the dimensionality to…

BiSbTeSe$_2$ is a 3D topological insulator (3D-TI) with Dirac type surface states and low bulk carrier density, as donors and acceptors compensate each other. Dominating low temperature surface transport in this material is heralded by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Jimin Wang , Cosimo Gorini , Klaus Richter , Zhiwei Wang , Yoichi Ando , Dieter Weiss

Surfaces of topological insulators host a new class of states with Dirac dispersion and helical spin texture. Potential quantum computing and spintronic applications using these states require manipulation of their electronic properties at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Haim Beidenkopf , Pedram Roushan , Jungpil Seo , Lindsay Gorman , Ilya Drozdov , Yew San Hor , R. J. Cava , Ali Yazdani

The recent theoretical prediction and experimental realization of topological insulators (TI) has generated intense interest in this new state of quantum matter. The surface states of a three-dimensional (3D) TI such as Bi_2Te_3, Bi_2Se_3…

Low-field magnetotransport measurements of topological insulators such as Bi$_2$Se$_3$ are important for revealing the nature of topological surface states by quantum corrections to the conductivity, such as weak-antilocalization. Recently,…

We report transport studies on (Bi,Sb)2Te3 topological insulator thin films with tunable electronic band structure. We find a doping and temperature regime in which the Hall coefficient is negative indicative of electron-type carriers,…

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

We study the surface states and chiral hinge states of a 3D second-order topological insulator in the presence of an external magnetic gauge field. Surfaces pierced by flux host Landau levels, while surfaces parallel to the applied field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-03 B. A. Levitan , L. Goutte , T. Pereg-Barnea

Topological insulators have an insulating bulk but a metallic surface. In the simplest case, the surface electronic structure of a 3D topological insulator is described by a single 2D Dirac cone. A single 2D Dirac fermion cannot be realized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-08 Jens H. Bardarson , Joel E. Moore

We develop a simple model of surface states for topological insulators, developing matching relations for states on surfaces of different orientations. The model allows one to write simple Dirac Hamiltonians for each surface, and to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-19 L. Brey , H. A. Fertig

Topological insulators are guaranteed to support metallic surface states on an insulating bulk, and one should thus expect that the electronic transport in these materials is dominated by the surfaces states. Alas, due to the high remaining…

The magnetotransport properties of epitaxial films of Cd3As2, a paradigm three-dimensional Dirac semimetal, are investigated. We show that an energy gap opens in the bulk electronic states of sufficiently thin films and, at low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-08 Timo Schumann , Luca Galletti , David A. Kealhofer , Honggyu Kim , Manik Goyal , Susanne Stemmer

A three-dimensional (3D) topological insulator (TI) is a quantum state of matter with a gapped insulating bulk yet a conducting surface hosting topologically-protected gapless surface states. One of the most distinct electronic transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-06 Yang Xu , Ireneusz Miotkowski , Chang Liu , Jifa Tian , Hyoungdo Nam , Nasser Alidoust , Jiuning Hu , Chih-Kang Shih , M. Zahid Hasan , Yong P. Chen