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It has been recently established that transport measurements in the nonlinear regime can give direct access to the quantum metric (QM): the real part of the quantum geometric tensor characterizing the geometry of the electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Mario Cuoco , Carmine Ortix

We develop a Dirac fermion theory for topological phases in magnetic topological insulator films. The theory is based on exact solutions of the energies and the wave functions for an effective model of the three-dimensional topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Kai-Zhi Bai , Bo Fu , Shun-Qing Shen

The Dirac fermions at the surface of a topological insulator can be gapped by introducing magnetic dopants. Alternatively, in an ultra-thin slab with thickness on the order of the extent of the surface states, both the top and bottom…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Calvin J. Tabert , J. P. Carbotte

Magnetically doped topological insulators have been extensively studied over the past decade as a material platform to exhibit quantum anomalous Hall effect. Most material realizations are magnetically doped and despite material advances…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Zhenisbek Tagay , Hee Taek Yi , Deepti Jain , Seongshik Oh , N. P. Armitage

Bi2Se3 is an important semiconductor thermoelectric material and a prototype topological insulator. Here we report observation of Shubnikov-de Hass (SdH) oscillations accompanied by quantized Hall resistances (Rxy) in highly-doped n-type…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-04-13 Helin Cao , Jifa Tian , Ireneusz Miotkowski , Tian Shen , Jiuning Hu , Shan Qiao , Yong P. Chen

We have experimentally confirmed the quantum Hall ferromagnetic state with Chern number \nu=0, characterized by the helical edge state, in a layered organic Dirac fermion system \alpha-(BEDT-TTF)_2I_3. The interlayer resistance saturates at…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-17 Mitsuyuki Sato , Takako Konoike , Toshihito Osada

We theoretically study the thermoelectric transport properties of strained HgTe in the topological insulator phase. We developed a model for the system using a Dirac Hamiltonian including the effect of strain induced by the interface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Francisco J. Peña , Oscar Negrete , Ning Ma , Patricio Vargas , Mario Reis , Leandro R. F. Lima

In a topological insulator (TI) the character of electron transport varies from insulating in the interior of the material to metallic near its surface. Unlike, however, ordinary metals, conducting surface states in TIs are topologically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-08 G. Tkachov , E. M. Hankiewicz

A magnetoconductivity formula is presented for the surface states of a magnetically doped topological insulator. It reveals a competing effect of weak localization and weak antilocalization in quantum transport when an energy gap is opened…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 Hai-Zhou Lu , Junren Shi , Shun-Qing Shen

We study the three-dimensional topological insulator (Bi$_{1-x}$Sb$_{x}$)$_{2}$Te$_{3}$ in its ultrathin limit i.e. when the thickness is of the same order as the surface state penetration depth. It is expected that in this limit a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Feike van Veen , Sofie Kölling , Stijn R. de Wit , Roel Metsch , Daniel Rosenbach , Chuan Li , Alexander Brinkman

The most interesting experimental results obtained in studies of 2D and 3D topological insulators (TIs) based on HgTe quantum wells and films are reviewed. In the case of 2D TIs, these include the observation of nonlocal ballistic and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-29 Z. D. Kvon , D. A. Kozlov , E. B. Olshanetsky , G. M. Gusev , N. N. Mikhailov , S. A. Dvoretsky

The relativistic Dirac equation covers the fundamentals of electronic phenomena in solids and as such it effectively describes the electronic states of the topological insulators like Bi$_2$Se$_3$ and Bi$_2$Te$_3$. Topological insulators…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-24 Hiroki Isobe , Naoto Nagaosa

An important challenge in the field of topological materials is to carefully disentangle the electronic transport contribution of the topological surface states from that of the bulk. For Bi$_2$Te$_3$ topological insulator samples, bulk…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-02 Prosper Ngabonziza , Yi Wang , Alexander Brinkman

We study a three-dimensional chiral second order topological insulator (SOTI) subject to a magnetic field. Via its gauge field, the applied magnetic field influences the electronic motion on the lattice, and via the Zeeman effect, the field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-26 B. A. Levitan , T. Pereg-Barnea

Recently,a half-quantized Hall conductance (HQHC) plateau is experimentally observed in a semi-magnetic topological insulator heterostructure. However,the heterostructure is metallic with a nonzero longitudinal conductance, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Humian Zhou , Hailong Li , Dong-Hui Xu , Chui-Zhen Chen , Qing-Feng Sun , X. C. Xie

We predict by first-principles calculations that thin films of Cr-doped (Bi,Sb)$_2$Te$_3$ magnetic topological insulator have gapless non-chiral edge states coexisting with the chiral edge state. Such gapless non-chiral states are not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-22 Jing Wang , Biao Lian , Haijun Zhang , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Motivated by recent transport experiments, we theoretically study the quantum Hall effect in topological semimetal films. Owing to the confinement effect, the bulk subbands originating from the chiral Landau levels establish energy gaps…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-13 D. -H. -Minh Nguyen , Koji Kobayashi , Jan-Erik R. Wichmann , Kentaro Nomura

We report the carrier density dependence of the magnetotransport property in the correlated Dirac semimetal CaIrO$_3$. In the dilute carrier density region ($n_{\rm H}$ $\sim 2.2 \times 10^{16} \,$$\rm{cm}^{-3}$) at $2 \, \mathrm{K}$, the…

By combining $n$-type $\mathrm{Bi_2Te_3}$ and $p$-type $\mathrm{Sb_2Te_3}$ topological insulators, vertically stacked $p$-$n$ junctions can be formed, allowing to position the Fermi level into the bulk band gap and also tune between $n$-…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-27 D. Backes , D. Huang , R. Mansell , M. Lanius , J. Kampmeier , D. A. Ritchie , G. Mussler , G. Gumbs , D. Grützmacher , V. Narayan

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