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The effect of the strong electron correlation on the topological phase structure of 2-dimensional (2D) and 3D topological insulators is investigated, in terms of lattice gauge theory. The effective model for noninteracting system is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-11-18 Yasufumi Araki , Taro Kimura , Akihiko Sekine , Kentaro Nomura , Takashi Z. Nakano

We investigate states on the surface of strong and weak topological insulators and superconductors that have been gapped by a symmetry breaking term. The surface of a strong 3D topological insulator gapped by a magnetic material is well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-07 Ching-Kai Chiu

We extend the coupled-wire construction of quantum Hall phases, and search for fractional topological insulating states in models of weakly coupled wires at zero external magnetic field. Focussing on systems beyond double copies of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Tobias Meng , Eran Sela

Topological insulators in the presence of strong Coulomb interaction constitute novel phases of matter. Transitions between these phases can be driven by single-particle or many-body effects. On the basis of {\it ab-initio} calculations, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-01-06 Gang Li , Werner Hanke , Giorgio Sangiovanni , Björn Trauzettel

We study the effects of dipolar interactions on a Bose-Einstein condensate with synthetically generated Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The dipolar interaction we consider includes terms that couple spin and orbital angular momentum in a way…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-11-12 Ryan M. Wilson , Brandon M. Anderson , Charles W. Clark

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

We predict that a non-centrosymmetric material NaSnBi locates in a three-dimensional non-trivial topological phase under ambient pressure based on first-principle calculations. By deriving the effective model around $\Gamma$ point, we find…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-21 Xia Dai , Congcong Le , Xianxin Wu , Shengshan Qin , Zhiping Lin , Jiangping Hu

In this work we have investigated the effect of Rashba splitting on the RKKY interaction in TI thin film both at finite and zero chemical potential. We find that the spin susceptibility of Rashba materials including TI thin film is strongly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-14 Mahroo Shiranzaei , Fariborz Parhizgar , Hosein Cheraghchi

Quantum materials with novel spin textures from strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) are essential components for a wide array of proposed spintronic devices. Topological insulators have necessary strong SOC that imposes a unique spin texture…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Wonhee Ko , Seoung-Hun Kang , Qiangsheng Lu , An-Hsi Chen , Gyula Eres , Ho Nyung Lee , Young-Kyun Kwon , Robert G. Moore , Mina Yoon , Matthew Brahlek

Spintronics is aimed at active controlling and manipulating the spin degrees of freedom in semiconductor devices. A promising way to achieve this goal is to make use of the tunable Rashba effect that relies on the spin-orbit interaction…

We study theoretically the low-energy hole states of Ge/Si core/shell nanowires. The low-energy valence band is quasidegenerate, formed by two doublets of different orbital angular momenta, and can be controlled via the relative shell…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-06 Christoph Kloeffel , Mircea Trif , Daniel Loss

We study the ground state properties of spin-half bosons subjected to the Rashba spin-orbit coupling in two dimensions. Due to the enhancement of the low energy density of states, it is expected that the effect of interaction becomes more…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-02 Zhihao Xu , Zhenhua Yu , Shizhong Zhang

Three-dimensional (3D) topological insulators are known for their strong spin-orbit coupling and the existence of spin-textured topological surface states which could be potentially exploited for spintronics. Here, we investigate spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-31 Mahdi Jamali , Joon Sue Lee , Yang Lv , Zhengyang Zhao , Nitin Samarth , Jian-Ping Wang

We present calculations of the frequency-dependent spin susceptibility tensor of a two-dimensional electron gas with competing Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction. It is shown that the interplay between both types of spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Catalina López-Bastidas , Jesús A. Maytorena , Francisco Mireles

We investigate the superconductivity in two-dimensional electron systems formed in SrTiO3 nanostructures. Our the- oretical analysis is based on the three-orbital model, which takes into account t2g orbitals of Ti ions. Because of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-07-10 Yasuharu Nakamura , Youichi Yanase

We consider a spin-orbit coupled configuration of spin-1/2 interacting bosons with equal Rashba and Dresselhaus couplings. The phase diagram of the system is discussed with special emphasis to the role of the interaction treated in the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-10-02 Yun Li , Lev P. Pitaevskii , Sandro Stringari

Multi-component electronic systems can appear in solid state systems with active orbital band structures. They exhibit richer structures of topological superconductivity beyond the conventional scenarios of spin singlet and triplet pairings…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-11-08 Wang Yang , Tao Xiang , Congjun Wu

In this review article we describe spin-dependent transport in materials with spin-orbit interaction of Rashba type. We mainly focus on semiconductor heterostructures, topological insulators, graphene and hybrid structures involving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-29 Dario Bercioux , Procolo Lucignano

Low dimensional semiconducting structures with strong spin-orbit interaction (SOI) and induced superconductivity attracted much interest in the search for topological superconductors. Both the strong SOI and hard superconducting gap are…

We give an overview of the work done during the past ten years on the Casimir interaction in electronic topological materials, our focus being solids which possess surface or bulk electronic band structures with nontrivial topologies, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-15 Bing-Sui Lu