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Magnetic devices are a leading contender for implementing memory and logic technologies that are nonvolatile, that can scale to high density and high speed, and that do not suffer wear-out. However, widespread applications of magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 A. R. Mellnik , J. S. Lee , A. Richardella , J. L. Grab , P. J. Mintun , M. H. Fischer , A. Vaezi , A. Manchon , E. -A. Kim , N. Samarth , D. C. Ralph

As a methodology for controlling the carrier transport of topological insulators (TI's), a flexible tuning in carrier number on the surface states (SS's) of three dimensional TI's by surface modifications using organic molecules is…

The layered semimetal WTe_2 has recently been found to be a two-dimensional topological insulator (2D TI) when thinned down to a single monolayer, with conducting helical edge channels. We report here that intrinsic superconductivity can be…

The recently discovered topological insulators exhibit topologically protected metallic surface states which are interesting from the fundamental point of view and could be useful for various applications if an appropriate electronic gating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-15 A. A. Kordyuk , T. K. Kim , V. B. Zabolotnyy , D. V. Evtushinsky , M. Bauch , C. Hess , B. Buechner , H. Berger , S. V. Borisenko

Topological insulators (TIs) have the singular distinction of being electronic insulators while harboring metallic, conductive surfaces. In ordinary materials, defects such as cracks and deformations are barriers to electrical conduction,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-30 S. Wolgast , Y. S. Eo , Ç. Kurdak , D. -J. Kim , Z. Fisk

Topological insulators (TIs) are an unusual phase of quantum matter with nontrivial spin-momentum locked topological surface states (TSS). The electrical detection of spin-momentum locking of the TSS in 3D TIs has been lacking till very…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-29 Jifa Tian , Ireneusz Miotkowski , Seokmin Hong , Yong P. Chen

Topological insulators (TIs) are an important family of quantum materials that exhibit a Dirac point (DP) in the surface band structure but have a finite band gap in bulk. A large degree of spin-orbit interaction and low bandgap is a…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-22 Thomas K. Reid , S. Pamir Alpay , Alexander V. Balatsky , Sanjeev K. Nayak

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

Starting from the Dirac equation, the relativistic quantum hydrodynamic equations for Dirac electrons on a surface of a three dimensional-topological insulator (TI) are derived and numerically solved to study the spin plasmons. The surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-27 Ya Zhang , Jianwei Cui , Wei Jiang , Lin Yi

Topological insulators insulate in the bulk but exhibit robust conducting edge states protected by the topology of the bulk material. Here, we design a colloidal topological insulator and demonstrate experimentally the occurrence of edge…

Spin-orbit torque (SOT) enables efficient electrical control of magnetization, offering a pathway towards low-power spintronic devices. Magnetic topological insulators (TIs), with spin-momentum-locked surface states and intrinsic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Ling-Jie Zhou , Deyi Zhuo , Han Tay , Zi-Jie Yan , Pu Xiao , Xiaoda Liu , Bomin Zhang , Cui-Zu Chang

Topology in condensed matter physics manifests itself in the emergence of edge or surface states protected by underlying symmetries. We review two-dimensional topological insulators whose one-dimensional edge states are characterized by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-01 Giacomo Dolcetto , Maura Sassetti , Thomas L. Schmidt

The topological properties of the bulk band structure of a three-dimensional topological insulator (TI) manifest themselves in the form of metallic surface states. In this paper, we propose a probe which directly couples to an exotic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Sthitadhi Roy , Kush Saha , Sourin Das

We demonstrate the ability to reduce the carrier concentration of thin films of the topological insulator (TI) Bi2Se3 by utilizing a novel approach, namely non-volatile electrostatic gating via corona charging of electret polymers.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-11 R. M. Ireland , Liang Wu , M. Salehi , S. Oh , N. P. Armitage , H. E. Katz

Topological insulators are unique devices supporting unidirectional edge states at their interfaces. Due to topological protection, such edge states persist in the presence of disorder and do not experience backscattering upon interaction…

We study theoretically helical edge states of 2D and 3D topological insulators (TI) tunnel-coupled to metal leads and show that their transport properties are strongly affected by contacts as the latter play a role of a heat bath and induce…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-14 P. P. Aseev , S. N. Artemenko

Topological insulators (TIs) are a new class of matter characterized by the unique electronic properties of an insulating bulk and metallic boundaries arising from non-trivial bulk band topology. While the surfaces of TIs have been well…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-10-09 L. Seixas , D. West , A. Fazzio , S. B. Zhang

We report the discovery of several classes of novel topological insulators (TIs) with hybrid-order boundary states generated from the first-order TIs with additional crystalline symmetries. Unlike the current studies on hybrid-order TIs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Yan-Qing Zhu , Zhen Zheng , Giandomenico Palumbo , Z. D. Wang

Topological Insulators (TIs) are unique materials where insulating bulk hosts linearly dispersing surface states protected by the Time-Reversal Symmetry (TRS). These states lead to dissipationless current flow, which makes this class of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-19 Ankita Phutela , Preeti Bhumla , Manjari Jain , Saswata Bhattacharya

Topological insulators are new class of materials which are characterized by a bulk band gap like ordinary band insulator but have protected conducting states on their edge or surface. These states emerge out due to the combination of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-18 Arijit Saha , Arun M. Jayannavar