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Many efforts have been made in the past decade to realize topological superconductivity using superconducting proximity effect, but an ideal platform is still lacking. A 3D topological insulator (TI) is promising for this purpose due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 Ella Nikodem , Jakob Schluck , Henry F. Legg , Max Geier , Michal Papaj , Mahasweta Bagchi , Liang Fu , Yoichi Ando

Time-periodic external drives have emerged as a powerful tool to artificially create topological phases of matter. Prime examples are Floquet topological insulators (FTIs), where a gapped bulk supports in-gap edge states, protected against…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Oleksandr Balabanov , Henrik Johannesson

When a charge current is injected into the surface state of a topological insulator (TI), the resulting shift of the spin-momentum-locked Fermi surface leads to the appearance of a net spin polarization. The helical spin structure of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-12 Linh T. Dang , Oliver Breunig , Zhiwei Wang , Henry F. Legg , Yoichi Ando

Combining topological insulators (TIs) and magnetic materials in heterostructures is crucial for advancing spin-based electronics. Magnetic insulators (MIs) can be deposited on TIs using the spin-spray process, which is a unique non-vacuum,…

Topological magnons, quantized spin waves featuring nontrivial boundary modes, present a promising route toward lossless information processing. Realizing practical devices typically requires magnons excited in a controlled manner to enable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Xueqing Wan , Quanchao Du , Jinlian Lu , Zhenlong Zhang , Jinyang Ni , Lei Zhang , Zhijun Jiang , Laurent Bellaiche

Topological insulators (TI), with characteristic Dirac-fermion topological surface states (TSS), have emerged as a new class of electronic materials with rich potentials for both novel physics and device applications. However, a major…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-09-11 Helin Cao , Chang Liu , Jifa Tian , Yang Xu , Ireneusz Miotkowski , M. Zahid Hasan , Yong P. Chen

Topological insulators are bulk insulators with exotic surface states, protected under time-reversal symmetry, that hold promise in observing many exciting condensed-matter phenomena. In this report, we show that by having a topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-29 S. Mathimalar , S. Sasmal , P. Rajasekhar , A. Bhardwaj , S. Chaudhary , B. Satpati , K. V. Raman

A hybrid structure combining the advantages of topological insulator (TI), dielectric ferromagnet (FM), and graphene is investigated to realize the electrically controlled correlation between electronic and magnetic subsystems for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-11 Xiaopeng Duan , Yuriy G. Semenov , Ki Wook Kim

Topological insulators represent unique phases of matter with insulating bulk and conducting edge or surface states, immune to small perturbations such as backscattering due to disorder. This stems from their peculiar band structure, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-01 Jérôme Cayssol , Balázs Dóra , Ferenc Simon , Roderich Moessner

We examine the effect of a spin-active interface on the symmetry of proximity-induced superconducting pairing amplitudes in topological insulators. We develop a model to investigate the leading order contribution to the pairing amplitude…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-04-22 Christopher Triola , E. Rossi , Alexander V. Balatsky

Topological insulators are candidates to open up a novel route in spin based electronics. Different to traditional ferromagnetic materials, where the carrier spin-polarization and magnetization are based on the exchange interaction, the…

Spatially controlling the Fermi level of topological insulators and keeping its electronic states stable are indispensable processes to put this material into practical use for semiconductor spintronics devices. So far, however, such a…

Topological insulators (TIs) are a promising class of materials for manipulating the magnetization of an adjacent ferromagnet (FM) through the spin-orbit torque (SOT) mechanism. However, current studies combining TIs with conventional FMs…

The concept of topological insulator (TI) has introduced a new point of view to condensed-matter physics, relating a priori unrelated subfields such as quantum (spin, anomalous) Hall effects, spin-orbit coupled materials, some classes of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-20 Yukinori Yoshimura , Koji Kobayashi , Tomi Ohtsuki , Ken-Ichiro Imura

The abstract notion of topology has led to profound insights into real materials. Notably, the surface and edges of topological materials can host physics, such as unidirectional charge or spin transport, that is unavailable in isolated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-02 Nicodemos Varnava , Justin H. Wilson , J. H. Pixley , David Vanderbilt

Strong spin-orbit coupling, resulting in the formation of spin-momentum-locked surface states, endows topological insulators with superior spin-to-charge conversion characteristics, though the dynamics that govern it have remained elusive.…

(Bi$_{1-x}$Sb$_x$)$_2$Te$_3$ topological insulators (TIs) are gathering increasing attention owing to their large charge-to-spin conversion efficiency and the ensuing spin-orbit torques (SOTs) that can be used to manipulate the…

We derive compact analytical expressions for the coupled spin-charge susceptibility of a clean helical metal at the surface of a three dimensional topological insulator (TI). These expressions lead to unconventional non-collinear RKKY…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-18 Ion Garate , M. Franz

Spin-orbital textures in topological insulators due to the spin locking with the electron momentum, play an important role in spintronic phenomena that arise from the interplay between charge and spin degrees of freedom. We have explored…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 A. L. Araújo , F. Crasto de Lima , C. H. Lewenkopf , A. Fazzio

Understanding how topology survives in strongly correlated systems remains a central challenge, as most topological diagnostics rely on non-interacting band structures. Here we present a framework to characterize interacting topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-13 Theo N. Dionne , Maia G. Vergniory