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Thermoelectric transport in strongly spin-orbit coupled two-dimensional Rashba system is studied using the exact solution of the linearized Boltzmann equation. Some unusual transport behaviors are revealed. We show that the electrical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Cong Xiao , Dingping Li , Zhongshui Ma

The topological materials have attracted much attention recently. While three-dimensional topological insulators are becoming abundant, two-dimensional topological insulators remain rare, particularly in natural materials. ZrTe5 has host a…

We present a theoretical study of dispersion of states which form the bulk band-gap edges in the three-dimensional topological insulator Bi2Te3. Within density functional theory, we analyze the effect of atomic positions varying within the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-17 I. A. Nechaev , E. V. Chulkov

Topological insulators are bulk semiconductors that manifest in-gap massless Dirac surface states due to the topological bulk-boundary correspondence principle [1-3]. These surface states have been a subject of tremendous ongoing interest,…

Topological quantum matter is characterized by non-trivial global invariants of the bulk which induce gapless electronic states at its boundaries. A case in point are two-dimensional topological insulators (2D-TI) which host one-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 R. Stühler , F. Reis , T. Müller , T. Helbig , T. Schwemmer , R. Thomale , J. Schäfer , R. Claessen

The thermoelectric response of HgTe quantum wells in the state of two-dimensional topological insulator (2D TI) has been studied experimentally. Ambipolar thermopower, typical for an electron-hole system, has been observed across the charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-24 G. M. Gusev , O. E. Raichev , E. B. Olshanetsky , A. D. Levin , Z. D. Kvon , N. N. Mikhailov , S. A. Dvoretsky

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides in the distorted octahedral 1T$^\prime$ phase exhibit a large bulk bandgap and gapless boundary states, which is an asset in the ongoing quest for topological electronics. In single-layer tungsten…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-24 G. Tkachov

Gapless topological boundary states characterize nontrivial topological phases arising from the bulk-boundary correspondence in symmetry-protected topological materials, such as the emergence of helical edge states in a two-dimensional…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-19 Yueh-Ting Yao , Xiaoting Zhou , Yi-Chun Hung , Hsin Lin , Arun Bansil , Tay-Rong Chang

Topological insulators (TIs) constitute a new class of materials with unique properties resulting from the relativistic-like character and topological protection of their surface states. Theory predicts these to exhibit a rich variety of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-14 Hadar Steinberg , Dillon R. Gardner , Young S. Lee , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

Morphology of the interlayer van der Waals surface and differential tunneling conductance in p-Bi2-xSbxTe3-ySey solid solutions were studied by scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy in dependence on compositions. Topological…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-27 L N Lukyanova , I V Makarenko , O A Usov , P A Dementev

The large variety of complex electronic structure materials and their alloys, offer highly promising directions for improvements in thermoelectric (TE) power factors (PF). Their electronic structure contains rich features, referred to as…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-08 Patrizio Graziosi , Neophytos Neophytou

Spin-orbit coupled materials have attracted revived prominent research interest as of late, especially due their direct connection with topological notions. Arguably, a hallmark of this pursuit is formed by the concept of the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-29 Robert-Jan Slager

We study the thermoelectric properties of three-dimensional topological Anderson insulators with line dislocations. We show that at high densities of dislocations the thermoelectric figure of merit ZT can be dominated by one-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Oleg A. Tretiakov , Ar. Abanov , Shuichi Murakami , Jairo Sinova

Macroscopic two-dimensional sonic crystals with inversion symmetry are studied to reveal higher-order topological physics in classical wave systems. By tuning a single geometry parameter, the band topology of the bulk and the edges can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Zhan Xiong , Zhi-Kang Lin , Hai-Xiao Wang , Xiujuan Zhang , Ming-Hui Lu , Yan-Feng Chen , Jian-Hua Jiang

We investigate topological phases induced by a driven electric field coupled to a dimer chain (a model for poly-acetylene) at high frequency regime. It is shown how the topological invariant of the system can be controlled by the field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-19 Fatemeh Askari Shahid , Hosein Cheraghchi

We consider the transport properties of topological insulators surface states in the presence of uncorrelated point-like disorder, both in the classical and quantum regimes. The transport properties of those two-dimensional surface states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-24 Pierre Adroguer , David Carpentier , Jérôme Cayssol , Edmond Orignac

We report about detailed dimensionless figure of merit ($ZT$) calculated by using Fermi integral method (compared with Bi$_2$Te$_3$, CoSb$_3$, and SrTiO$_3$) for thermoelectric (TE) materials' design and its module application.…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-05 Hirofumi Kakemoto

There is currently substantial effort being invested into creating efficient thermoelectric nanowires based on topological insulator chalcogenide-type materials. A key premise of these efforts is the assumption that the generally good…

We study the thermoelectric transport in two dimensional topological system which has coexistence of superconductivity(SC) and spin-density wave(SDW). The SC is presumed to be of $d_{x^2-y^2}+(p_x + i p_y) $ type whereas the SDW order…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-02-17 Amit Gupta , Debanand Sa

Topological phases with insulating bulk and gapless surface or edge modes have attracted much attention because of their fundamental physics implications and potential applications in dissipationless electronics and spintronics. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-18 Yafei Ren , Zhenhua Qiao , Qian Niu