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A magnetic skyrmion induced on a ferromagnetic topological insulator (TI) is a real-space manifestation of the chiral spin texture in the momentum space, and can be a carrier for information processing by manipulating it in tailored…

Topological materials, such as topological insulators (TIs), have great potential for ultralow power spintronic devices, thanks to their giant spin Hall effect. However, the giant spin Hall angle (${\theta}_{SH}$ > 1) is limited to a few…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-08 Takanori Shirokura , Tuo Fan , Nguyen Huynh Duy Khang , Tsuyoshi Kondo , Pham Nam Hai

The adiabatic insertion of a \pi flux into a quantum spin Hall insulator gives rise to localized spin and charge fluxon states. We demonstrate that \pi fluxes can be used in exact quantum Monte Carlo simulations to identify a correlated Z_2…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-03-01 F. F. Assaad , M. Bercx , M. Hohenadler

After establishing the fundamental understanding and the high throughput topological characterization of nearly all inorganic three-dimensional materials, the general interest and the demand of functional applications drive the research of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Yunyouyou Xia , Suhua Jin , Werner Hanke , Ralph Claessen , Gang Li

We theoretically study spin and charge transport induced by a twisted light beam irradiated on a disordered surface of a doped three dimensional topological insulator (TI). We find that various types of spin vortices are imprinted on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-17 Kunitaka Shintani , Katsuhisa Taguchi , Yukio Tanaka , Yuki Kawaguchi

A hybrid structure combining the advantages of topological insulator (TI), dielectric ferromagnet (FM), and graphene is investigated to realize the electrically controlled correlation between electronic and magnetic subsystems for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-11 Xiaopeng Duan , Yuriy G. Semenov , Ki Wook Kim

We consider recent experiments on wide superconductor-quantum spin Hall insulator (QSHI)-superconductor Josephson junctions, which have shown preliminary evidence of proximity-induced superconductivity at the edge-modes of the QSHI system…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-12-24 Hoi-Yin Hui , Alejandro M. Lobos , Jay D. Sau , S. Das Sarma

We theoretically study the coupling of electric charge and spin polarization in an equilibrium and nonequilibrium electric transport across a two dimensional Josephson configuration comprised of disordered surface channels of a three…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-12 I. V. Bobkova , A. M. Bobkov , Alexander A. Zyuzin , Mohammad Alidoust

A ferromagnetic insulator (FI) attached to a conventional superconductor (S) changes drastically the properties of the latter. Specifically, the exchange field at the FI/S interface leads to a splitting of the superconducting density of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-09-21 Tero T Heikkilä , Mikhail Silaev , Pauli Virtanen , F. Sebastian Bergeret

Topological insulators and giant spin-orbit toque switching of nanomagnets are one of the frontier topics for the development of energy-efficient spintronic devices. Spin-circuit representations involving different materials and phenomena…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-29 Kuntal Roy

Topological Insulator (TI) has recently emerged as an attractive candidate for possible application to spintronic circuits because of its strong spin orbit coupling. TIs are unique materials that have an insulating bulk but conducting…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-07-31 Ahmed K. Reza , Xuanyao Fong , Zubair Al Azim , Kaushik Roy

We consider a thin film of a topological insulator (TI) sandwiched between two ferromagnetic (FM) layers. The system is additionally under an external gate voltage. The surface electron states of TI are magnetized due to the magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Piotr Pigoń , Anna Dyrdał

The surface state of a 3D topological insulator (3DTI) is a spin-momentum locked conductive state, whose large spin hall angle can be used for the energy-efficient spin orbit torque based switching of an overlying ferromagnet (FM).…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 Hamed Vakili , Samiran Ganguly , George J. de Coster , Mahesh R. Neupane , Avik W. Ghosh

Topological aspects of superconductivity in quantum spin-Hall systems (QSHSs) such as thin layers of three-dimensional topological insulators (3D Tis) or two-dimensional Tis are in the focus of current research. We examine hybrid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-04 R. W. Reinthaler , G. Tkachov , E. M. Hankiewicz

We present topological insulator (TI)-based single-electron transistors (SETs) as magnetic-field-compatible charge sensing devices that are easily integrable with TI-superconductor hybrid platforms. We observe well-resolved Coulomb diamonds…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Omargeldi Atanov , Junya Feng , Jens Brede , Oliver Breunig , Yoichi Ando

Quantum spin Hall insulators (QSHIs) and excitonic insulators (EIs) are prototypical topological and correlated states of matter, respectively. The topological phase transition between the two has attracted much theoretical interest but…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Zhongdong Han , Yiyu Xia , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Kin Fai Mak , Jie Shan

Quantum spin-Hall insulators (QSHIs), i.e., two-dimensional topological insulators (TIs) with a symmetry-protected band inversion, have attracted considerable scientific interest in recent years. In this work, we have computed the…

Spin-orbit torque (SOT) enables efficient electrical control of magnetization, offering a pathway towards low-power spintronic devices. Magnetic topological insulators (TIs), with spin-momentum-locked surface states and intrinsic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Ling-Jie Zhou , Deyi Zhuo , Han Tay , Zi-Jie Yan , Pu Xiao , Xiaoda Liu , Bomin Zhang , Cui-Zu Chang

We investigate the spin-pumping-induced electric current on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator hybridized with a ferromagnet, namely, ferromagnetic topological insulator. In order to do this, we establish the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-29 Yusuke Hama , Kentaro Nomura

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators are materials with nontrivial topological properties, characterized by helical edge currents. In 2D strips, the application of a bias voltage along the edge generates a magnetization that can be measured…