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We report on magnetospectroscopy of HgTe quantum wells in magnetic fields up to 45 T in temperature range from 4.2 K up to 185 K. We observe intra- and inter-band transitions from zero-mode Landau levels, which split from the bottom…

We show that the critical temperature of a ferromagnetic phase transition in a quasi-two-dimensional hole gas confined in a diluted magnetic semiconductor quantum well strongly depends on the hole chemical potential and hole density. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 P. S. Grigoryev , M. M. Glazov , A. V. Kavokin , A. A. Varlamov

We measure gate-tuned thermoelectric power of mechanically exfoliated Bi2Se3 thin films in the topological insulator regime. The sign of the thermoelectric power changes across the charge neutrality point as the majority carrier type…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-12 Dohun Kim , Paul Syers , Nicholas P. Butch , Johnpierre Paglione , Michael S. Fuhrer

The thermoelectric response of 80-nm-thick strained HgTe films of a three-dimensional topological insulator (3D TI) has been studied experimentally. An ambipolar thermopower is observed where the Fermi energy moves from conducting to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-14 G. M. Gusev , Z. D. Kvon , A. D. Levin , N. N. Mikhailov

We investigate a second-order topological quantum transition of a modified Kane-Mele model driven by electron-phonon interaction. The results show that the system parameters of the bare modified Kane-Mele model are renormalized by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 Congwei Lu , Mei Zhang , Haibo Wang , Qing Ai , Tao Liu

Recent studies on the magneto-transport properties of topological insulators (TI) have attracted great attention due to the rich spin-orbit physics and promising applications in spintronic devices. Particularly the strongly spin-moment…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-23 Jiahao Han , A. Richardella , Saima Siddiqui , Joseph Finley , N. Samarth , Luqiao Liu

The ferromagnet-topological insulator-ferromagnet (FM-TI-FM) junction exhibits thermal and electrical quantum Hall effects. The generated Hall voltage and transverse temperature gradient can be controlled by the directions of magnetizations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 A. L. Chudnovskiy , V. Kagalovsky

We study transport properties of the helical edge states of two-dimensional integer and fractional topological insulators via double constrictions. Such constrictions couple the upper and lower edges of the sample, and can be made and tuned…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-25 Chia-Wei Huang , Sam T. Carr , Dmitri Gutman , Efrat Shimshoni , Alexander D. Mirlin

Ferromagnetic topological insulators exhibit the quantum anomalous Hall effect that might be used for high precision metrology and edge channel spintronics. In conjunction with superconductors, they could host chiral Majorana zero modes…

We report in this Letter our recent low temperature transport results in a Si/SiGe quantum well with moderate peak mobility. An apparent metal-insulating transition is observed. Within a small range of densities near the transition, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 T. M. Lu , W. Pan , D. C. Tsui , P. C. Liu , Z. Zhang , Y. H. Xie

We report on the observation of the quantum Hall effect at high temperatures in HgTe quantum wells with a finite band gap and a thickness below and above the critical thickness $d_\textnormal{c}$ that separates a conventional semiconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-12 T. Khouri , M. Bendias , P. Leubner , C. Brüne , H. Buhmann , L. W. Molenkamp , U. Zeitler , N. E. Hussey , S. Wiedmann

We consider multi-terminal transport through a flake of rectangular shape of a two-dimensional topological insulator in the presence of an in-plane magnetic field. This system has been shown to be a second-order topological insulator, thus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-21 Joseph Poata , Fabio Taddei , Michele Governale

We demonstrate theoretically that the thermal Hall effect of magnons in collinear antiferromagnetic insulators is an indicator of magnetic and topological phase transitions in the magnon spectrum. The transversal heat current of magnons…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-23 Robin R. Neumann , Alexander Mook , Jürgen Henk , Ingrid Mertig

We predict the tetragonal Mn2PC monolayer to be a room-temperature ferromagnetic half-metal with a Curie temperature of 554 K. The spin-up channel hosts type-II Weyl-like crossings at the Fermi level with highly anisotropic band dispersion,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-12 Wei Ma , Yu-Ting Wang , Wen-Bo Sun , Zhiheng Lv , Shuai Shi , Jian-Hong Rong , Tie-Lei Song , Zhi-Feng Liu

This study examines the magnetotransport response observed in flakes of the 3D topological insulator (TI) Bi2Te3, including indium superconducting electrodes, and demonstrates two critical transitions in the magnetoresistive response with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-16 Zhuo Wang , Tianyu Ye , R. G. Mani

We investigate a transition between a two-dimensional topological insulator conduction state, characterized by a conductance $G=2$ (in fundamental units $e^2/h$) and a Chern insulator with $G=1$, induced by polarized magnetic impurities.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 Laurent Raymond , Alberto D. Verga , Arnaud Demion

We report on magnetoconductance measurements through a weakly coupled quantum dot, containing roughly 900 electrons, in a wide magnetic field range from 0 T to 12 T. We find modulations of the conductance resonances in the quantum Hall…

Here, we report a systematic study on the Hall-effect of the semi-metallic state of bulk MoTe$_2$, which was recently claimed to be a candidate for a novel type of Weyl semi-metallic state. The temperature ($T$) dependence of the carrier…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-09-07 Qiong Zhou , D. Rhodes , Q. R. Zhang , S. Tang , R. Schönemann , L. Balicas

We report magnetotransport measurements in a HgTe quantum well with an inverted band structure, which is expected to be a two-dimensional (2D) topological insulator. A small magnetic field perpendicular the 2D layer breaks the time reversal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-28 G. M. Gusev , E. B Olshanetsky , Z. D. Kvon , N. N. Mikhailov , S. A. Dvoretsky

We systematically measured the Hall effect in the extremely large magnetoresistance semimetal WTe$_2$. By carefully fitting the Hall resistivity to a two-band model, the temperature dependencies of the carrier density and mobility for both…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-09 Yongkang Luo , H. Li , Y. M. Dai , H. Miao , Y. G. Shi , H. Ding , A. J. Taylor , D. A. Yarotski , R. P. Prasankumar , J. D. Thompson