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A thin film of a topological insulator (TI) on a dielectric substrate and a bulk TI - dielectric film - bulk TI structure are considered as natural double-well heterostructures suitable for realizing the counterflow superconductivity. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 K. V. Germash , D. V. Fil

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

Fundamental topological phenomena in condensed matter physics are associated with a quantized electromagnetic response in units of fundamental constants. Recently, it has been predicted theoretically that the time-reversal invariant…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-26 Joseph Maciejko , Xiao-Liang Qi , H. Dennis Drew , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We show that the magneto-electric coupling in 3D (strong) topological insulators is related to a second derivative of the bulk magnetization. The formula we derive is the non-linear response analog of the Streda formula for Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-31 Doron L. Bergman , Gil Refael

MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ (MBT) is an ideal platform for studying the interplay between magnetism and topology. Many exotic topological phenomena, such as the quantum anomalous Hall effect and the axion insulator, have been observed in few-layer MBT.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 Xingyue Han , An-Hsi Chen , Matthew Brahlek , Liang Wu

Spin-orbit effects appearing in topological insulators (TI) and at Rashba interfaces are currently revolutionizing how we can manipulate spins and have led to several newly discovered effects, from spin-charge interconversion and spin-orbit…

We study effect of interactions on time-reversal-invariant topological insulators. Their topological indices are expressed by interacting Green's functions. Under the local self-energy approximation, we connect topological index and surface…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-06-29 Lei Wang , Hua Jiang , Xi Dai , X. C. Xie

We consider antiferromagnets breaking both time-reversal (Theta) and a primitive lattice translational symmetry (T) of a crystal but preserving the combination S = Theta T. The S symmetry leads to a Z_2 topological classification of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-22 Roger S. K. Mong , Andrew M. Essin , Joel E. Moore

We study the effect of spin-momentum locking inhomogeneity on the planar Hall effect in topological insulators (TIs). Using the minimal model describing surface states of 3D TIs and semiclassical Boltzmann formalism, we have derived the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-18 A. N. Zarezad , J. Barnaś , A. Qaiumzadeh , A. Dyrdał

Strong nonmagnetic impurities on the surface of three-dimensional topological insulators (TIs) generate localized resonance peaks close to the Dirac point. We show that this results in a strongly reduced critical Coulomb interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-03 Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Dmitry Yudin

Following the centuries old concept of the quantization of flux through a Gaussian curvature (Euler characteristic) and its successive dispersal into various condensed matter properties such as quantum Hall effect, and topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-23 Tanmoy Das

Topological insulators are found in materials that have elements with strong spin orbit interaction. However, electron Coulomb repulsion also potentially generates the topological insulators as well as Chern insulators by the mechanism of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-07-01 Masatoshi Imada , Youhei Yamaji , Moyuru Kurita

We investigate electromagnetic properties of a topological crystalline insulator (TCI) thin film under external electromagnetic fields. The TCI thin film is a topological insulator indexed by the mirror-Chern number. It is demonstrated that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-10 Motohiko Ezawa

The topological insulators have a gap in the bulk but extended states at the edge that can carry current. We study a geometry in which such edge states will manifest themselves through periodic oscillations in the magnetoconductance of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-19 Rui-Lin Chu , Jian Li , J. K. Jain , Shun-Qing Shen

We generalize the topological phase diagram of magnetic topological insulator (TI) thin films in an extended parameter space comprising out-of-plane (OP) and in-plane (IP) exchange fields in the presence of structural inversion asymmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-03 Kiminori Hattori

Nontrivial band topology along with magnetism leads to different novel quantum phases. When time-reversal-symmetry is broken in three-dimensional topological insulators (TIs) by applying high enough magnetic field or proximity effect,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-11 Nezhat Pournaghavi , Banasree Sadhukhan , Anna Delin

Microwave impedance microscopy (MIM) has been utilized to directly visualize topological edge states in many quantum materials, from quantum Hall systems to topological insulators, across the GHz regime. While the microwave response for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-02 Taige Wang , Chen Wu , Masataka Mogi , Minoru Kawamura , Yoshinori Tokura , Zhi-Xun Shen , Yi-Zhuang You , Monica T. Allen

We study the Keldysh Green's function of the Weyl-fermion surface state of the three-dimensional topological insulator coupled with a space-time dependent magnetization in the gradient expansion. Based on it we analyze the electric charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-15 Yusuke Hama , Naoto Nagaosa

We theoretically investigate a new kind of nonlinear magnetoresistance on the surface of three-dimensional topological insulators (TIs). At variance with the unidirectional magnetoresistance (UMR) effect in magnetic bilayers, this nonlinear…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-13 Steven S. -L. Zhang , Giovanni Vignale

Thermoelectric coefficients of an ultra-thin topological insulator are presented here. The hybridization between top and bottom surface states of a topological insulator plays a significant role. In absence of magnetic field, thermopower…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-07 SK Firoz Islam , Tarun Kanti Ghosh