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We study Dirac plasmons and their damping in spatially separated $N$-layer graphene structures at finite doping and temperatures. The plasmon spectrum consists of one optical excitation with a square-root dispersion and $N-1$ acoustical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-13 J. -J. Zhu , S. M. Badalyan , F. M. Peeters

We achieve the enhancement of circular photogalvanic effect arising from the photo-injection of spins in topological insulator thin films by tuning the Fermi level ($E_{\rm F}$). A series of (Bi$_{1-x}$Sb$_x$)$_2$Te$_3$ thin films were…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-02-09 K. N. Okada , N. Ogawa , R. Yoshimi , A. Tsukazaki , K. S. Takahashi , M. Kawasaki , Y. Tokura

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

The near-field interaction due to a strong electromagnetic field induced by resonant localized plasmons can result in a strong coupling of excitonic states or formation of hybrid exciton-plasmon modes in quantum confined structures. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-01 Yuba Poudel , Gary N. Lim , Mojtaba Moazzezi , Zachariah Hennighausen , Yuri Rostovtsev , Francis DSouza , Swastik Kar , Arup Neogi

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

Topological insulators, which allow edge or interface waves but forbid bulk waves, have revolutionized our scientific cognition of acoustic/elastic systems. Due to their nontrivial topological characteristics, edge (interface)waves are…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 Weijian Zhou , Weiqiu Chen , Michel Destrade , C. W. Lim

We present a theoretical investigation of the surface plasmon (SP) at the interface between topologically non-trivial cylindrical core and topological-trivial surrounding material, from the axion electrodynamics and modified constitutive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-13 Mingda Li , Wenping Cui , Lijun Wu , Qingping Meng , Yimei Zhu , Yong Zhang , Weishu Liu , Zhifeng Ren

Nanoplasmonics exploits the coupling between light and collective electron density oscillations (plasmons) to bypass the stringent limits imposed by diffraction. This coupling enables confinement of light to sub-wavelength volumes and is…

The spin excitations from the nonmagnetic charge-ordered insulating state of $\alpha$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$I$_3$ at ambient pressure have been investigated by probing the static and low-frequency dynamic spin susceptibilities via site-selective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-08 Kyohei Ishikawa , Michihiro Hirata , Dong Liu , Kazuya Miyagawa , Masafumi Tamura , Kazushi Kanoda

The one dimensional (1D) driven quantum coupled pseudoforce system governing the dynamics of collective Langmuir electron oscillations is used in order to investigate the effects of variety of space charge distributions on plasmon…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 M. Akbari-Moghanjoughi

A longstanding open problem in condensed matter physics is whether or not a strongly disordered interacting insulator can be mapped to a system of effectively non-interacting localized excitations. We investigate this issue on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-22 Fahad Mahmood , Dipanjan Chaudhuri , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Rahul Nandkishore , N. P. Armitage

Topological plasmonics offers new ways to manipulate light by combining concepts from topology and plasmonics, similar to topological edge states in photonics. However, designing such topological states remains challenging due to the…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-15 Fatemeh Davoodi

Controlling the flow of spin and charge currents in topological insulators (TIs) is a crucial requirement for applications in quantum computation and spin electronics. We demonstrate that such control can be established in nanoscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 John S. Van Dyke , Dirk K. Morr

Layered topological insulators, for example, Bi$_2$Se$_3$ are optically hyperbolic materials in a range of THz frequencies. Such materials possess deeply subdiffractional, highly directional collective modes: hyperbolic phonon-polaritons.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Jhih-Sheng Wu , D. N. Basov , M. M. Fogler

We study the dynamical polarization function and plasmon modes for spin-orbit coupled noncentrosymmetric metals (NCMs). These systems have different Fermi surface topology for Fermi energies above and below the spin degenerate point which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-07 Sonu Verma , Arijit Kundu , Tarun Kanti Ghosh

In this article, we propose a practical way to realize topological surface Dirac fermions with tunable attractive interaction between them. The approach involves coating the surface of a topological insulator with a thin film metal and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-08 Saran Vijayan , Fei Zhou

Three-dimensional topological insulators are characterized by insulating bulk state and metallic surface state involving Dirac fermions that behave as massless relativistic particles. These Dirac fermions are responsible for achieving a…

The emerging field of spinoptronics has a potential to supersede the functionality of modern electronics, while a proper description of strong light-matter coupling pose the most intriguing questions from both fundamental scientific and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-19 D. Yudin , O. V. Kibis , I. A. Shelykh

The spin-orbit torque induced by a topological insulator (TI) is theoretically examined for spin wave generation in a neighboring antiferromagnetic thin film. The investigation is based on the micromagnetic simulation of N\'{e}el vector…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-26 Xinyi Xu , Yuriy G. Semenov , Ki Wook Kim

We study the effect of the electromagnetic environment on the resonance frequency of plasmonic excitations in dimers of interacting metallic nanoparticles. The coupling between plasmons and vacuum electromagnetic fluctuations induces a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Charles A. Downing , Eros Mariani , Guillaume Weick