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The recent discovery of topological flat bands in twisted transition metal dichalcogenide homobilayers and multilayer graphene has sparked significant research interest. We propose a new platform for realizing tunable topological moire flat…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-08 Xilong Xu , Haonan Wang , Li Yang

Surface states in Tl/Si(111) and Bi/Si(111) show non-Rashba-type spin splitting. We study spin-transport properties in these surface states. First we construct tight-binding Hamiltonians for Tl/Si and Bi/Si surfaces, which respect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-01 Kokin Nakajin , Shuichi Murakami

We study spin configurations of classical magnetic impurities placed close to the edge of a two-dimensional topological superconductor both analytically and numerically. First, we demonstrate that the spin of a single magnetic impurity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-18 Katharina Laubscher , Dmitry Miserev , Vardan Kaladzhyan , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

We have investigated spin reorientation phenomena and interaction driven effects under the presence of applied strains on the (001) surface of Pb$_{1-x}$Sn$_x$(Te, Se) topological crystalline insulators, which host multiple Dirac cones. Our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-10 Cheng-Yi Huang , Hsin Lin , Yung Jui Wang , Arun Bansil , Wei-Feng Tsai

A quantum spin Hall insulator hosts topological states at the one-dimensional edge, along which backscattering by nonmagnetic impurities is strictly prohibited and dissipationless current flows. Its 3D analogue, a weak topological insulator…

Inspired by the recent discovery of metallic spin supersolidity and its giant magnetocaloric effect in the rare-earth alloy EuCo$_2$Al$_9$ [Nature 651, 61 (2026)], we perform a combined study through electronic structure analysis, effective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-26 Ning Xi , Xitong Xu , Guoliang Wu , Mingfang Shu , Hao Chen , Yuan Gao , Zhentao Wang , Gang Su , Jie Ma , Zhe Qu , Xi Chen , Wei Li

When electrons are subject to a large external magnetic field, the conventional charge quantum Hall effect \cite{Klitzing,Tsui} dictates that an electronic excitation gap is generated in the sample bulk, but metallic conduction is permitted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-08 D. Hsieh , D. Qian , L. Wray , Y. Xia , Y. S. Hor , R. J. Cava , M. Z. Hasan

The electronic structure of Bi2Se3 is studied by angle-resolved photoemission and density functional theory. We show that the instability of the surface electronic properties, observed even in ultra-high-vacuum conditions, can be overcome…

The control of recently observed spintronic effects in topological-insulator/ferromagnetic-metal (TI/FM) heterostructures is thwarted by the lack of understanding of band structure and spin texture around their interfaces. Here we combine…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-28 J. M. Marmolejo-Tejada , K. Dolui , P. Lazic , P. -H. Chang , S. Smidstrup , D. Stradi , K. Stokbro , B. K. Nikolic

We theoretically investigate the features of Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) exchange interaction between two magnetic impurities, mediated by the interfacial bound states inside a domain wall (DW). The latter separates the two regions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Ganesh C. Paul , SK Firoz Islam , Paramita Dutta , Arijit Saha

We report on the epitaxial fabrication and electronic properties of a topological phase in strained \alpha-Sn on InSb. The topological surface state forms in the presence of an unusual band order not based on direct spin-orbit coupling, as…

Three-dimensional (3D) topological insulators (TI) are novel quantum materials with insulating bulk and topologically protected metallic surfaces with Dirac-like band structure. The spin-helical Dirac surface states are expected to host…

Topological superconductors, such as noncentrosymmetric superconductors with strong spin-orbit coupling, exhibit protected zero-energy surface states, which possess an intricate helical spin structure. We show that this nontrival spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-10-10 Johannes S. Hofmann , Raquel Queiroz , Andreas P. Schnyder

A chiral compound FeSi is a nonmagnetic narrow-gap insulator, exhibiting peculiar charge and spin dynamics beyond a simple band-structure picture. Those unusual features have been attracting renewed attention from topological aspects.…

The existence of chiral edge states, corresponding to the nontrivial bulk-band topology characterized by a non-vanishing topological invariant, and the manipulation of topological transport via chiral edge states promise topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-25 Muhammad Nadeem , Xiaolin Wang

We consider the effective coupling between impurity spins on surfaces of a thin-film Weyl semimetal within Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yoshida (RKKY) theory. If the spins are on the same surface, their coupling reflects the anisotropy and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Sonu Verma , Debasmita Giri , H. A. Fertig , Arijit Kundu

We consider ferromagnetic instabilities of two-dimensional helical Dirac fermions hosted on the surface of three-dimensional topological insulators. We investigate ways to increase the role of interactions by means of modifying the bulk…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-11-13 Matthias Sitte , Achim Rosch , Lars Fritz

We discuss the magnetic and topological properties of bulk crystals and quasi-two-dimensional thin films formed by stacking intrinsic magnetized topological insulator ( for example Mn(Sb$_{x}$Bi$_{1-x}$)$_2$X$_4$ with X = Se,Te, including…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-04 Chao Lei , Shu Chen , Allan H. MacDonald

Composite quantum compounds (CQCs) have become an important avenue for the investigation of inter-correlation between two distinct phenomenon in physics. Topological superconductors, axion insulators etc. are few such CQCs which have…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-18 Chiranjit Mondal , Chanchal K. Barman , Aftab Alam , Biswarup Pathak

Topological states of matter are robust quantum phases, characterised by propagating or localised edge states in an insulating bulk. Topological boundary states can be triggered by various mechanisms, for example by strong spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 S. E. Freeney , J. J. van den Broeke , A. J. J. Harsveld van der Veen , I. Swart , C. Morais Smith