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The higher order topological insulator (HOTI) has enticed enormous research interests owing to its novelty in supporting gapless states along the hinges of the crystal. Despite several theoretical predictions, enough experimental…

Topological insulators are insulating in the bulk but possess spin-momentum locked metallic surface states protected by time-reversal symmetry. The existence of these surface states has been confirmed by angle-resolved photoemission…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-11-09 Jian Wang , Handong Li , Cui-Zu Chang , Ke He , Joon Sue Lee , Xu-Cun Ma , Nitin Samarth , Qi-Kun Xue , Maohai Xie , M. H. W. Chan

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

Topological insulators (TIs) are intriguing materials for advanced computing applications based on spintronics because they can host robust spin effects. For instance, TIs have intrinsically large spin generation enabled by their large…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Sharadh Jois , Gregory M. Stephen , Nick Blumenschein , Patrick J. Taylor , Aubrey T. Hanbicki , Adam L. Friedman

Hybrid superconductor-semiconductor heterostructures are promising platforms for realizing topological superconductors and exploring Majorana bound states physics. Motivated by recent experimental progress, we theoretically study how…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-15 A. Maiani , R. Seoane Souto , M. Leijnse , K. Flensberg

This short review appears on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of discovery of intrinsic magnetic topological insulators (MTIs) of the MnBi${}_2$Te${}_4$ family, which have attracted a great deal of attention recently. This family of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-05 A. Yu. Vyazovskaya , M. Bosnar , E. V. Chulkov , M. M. Otrokov

A key feature of topological insulators is the robustness of the electron energy spectrum. At a surface of a topological insulator, Dirac point is protected by the characteristic symmetry of the system. The breaking of the symmetry opens a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 S. Stagraczynski , L. Chotorlishvili , V. K. Dugaev , C. -L. Jia , A. Ernst , A. Komnik , J. Berakdar

The search for strongly inversion asymmetric topological insulators is an active research field because these materials possess distinct properties compared with the inversion symmetric ones. In particular, it is desirable to realize a…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-01-28 Jin-Jian Zhou , Wanxiang Feng , Ying Zhang , Shengyuan A. Yang , Yugui Yao

By means of relativistic density functional theory (DFT) calculations we study electron band structure of the topological insulator (TI) Bi$_2$Se$_3$ thin films deposited on the ferromagnetic insulator (FMI) EuS substrate. In the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-09 S. V. Eremeev , V. N. Men'shov , V. V. Tugushev , E. V. Chulkov

Realizing axion insulator state with a uniform magnetization considerably facilitates experimental explorations of the intriguing topological magnetoelectric effect, a hallmark of three-dimensional (3D) topological insulators (TIs). Through…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-11 Y. S. Hou , R. Q. Wu

Magnetic topological insulators (MTIs) are among the prominent platforms for the next generation of high-speed and low-power spintronic devices. However, unlike their non-magnetic counterparts, where the surface spin-momentum locking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Amir Sabzalipour , Mohammad Shafiei , Milorad V. Milošević

Topological insulators (TIs) have attracted much attention due to their spin-polarized surface and edge states, whose origin in symmetry gives them intriguing quantum-mechanical properties. Robust control over the chemical potential of TI…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Andrew L. Yeats , Yu Pan , Anthony Richardella , Peter J. Mintun , Nitin Samarth , David D. Awschalom

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

Heterostructures combining topological and non-topological materials constitute the next frontier in the effort to incorporate topological insulators (TIs) into functional electronic devices. We show that the properties of the interface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-05 Mahmoud M. Asmar , Daniel E. Sheehy , Ilya Vekhter

We have studied ferromagnetic metal/topological insulator bilayer system to understand magnetization dynamics of ferromagnetic metal (FM) in contact with a topological insulator (TI). At magnetic resonance condition, the precessing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Sayani Pal , Soumik Aon , Subhadip Manna , Sambhu G Nath , Kanav Sharma , Chiranjib Mitra

Introducing magnetism into topological insulators breaks time-reversal symmetry, and the magnetic exchange interaction can open a gap in the otherwise gapless topological surface states. This allows various novel topological quantum states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-28 Pinyuan Wang , Jun Ge , Jiaheng Li , Yanzhao Liu , Yong Xu , Jian Wang

Induced magnetic order in a topological insulator (TI) can be realized either by depositing magnetic adatoms on the surface of a TI or engineering the interface with epitaxial thin film or stacked assembly of two-dimensional (2D) van der…

The recent discovery of antiferromagnetic (AFM) topological insulator (TI) MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ has triggered great research efforts on exploring novel magnetic topological physics. Based on first-principles calculations, we find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Jiaheng Li , Chong Wang , Zetao Zhang , Bing-Lin Gu , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

We have performed a systematic investigation of the formation of topologically protected boundary states (TPBS) in topological/normal insulators (TI/NI) heterostructures. Using a recently developed scheme to construct {\it ab-initio}…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-26 M. Costa , A. T. Costa , Walter A. Freitas , Tome M. Schmidt , M. Buongiorno Nardelli , A. Fazzio