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The interplay between magnetic and topological order can give rise to phenomena such as the quantum anomalous Hall effect. The extension of topological surface states into magnetic insulators (MIs) has been proposed as an alternative to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-23 Eirik Holm Fyhn , Hendrik Bentmann , Jacob Linder

The search for chiral topological superconductivity in magnetic topological insulator (TI)-FeTe heterostructures is a key frontier in condensed matter physics, with potential applications in topological quantum computing. The combination of…

Topological insulators are bulk insulators with exotic surface states, protected under time-reversal symmetry, that hold promise in observing many exciting condensed-matter phenomena. In this report, we show that by having a topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-29 S. Mathimalar , S. Sasmal , P. Rajasekhar , A. Bhardwaj , S. Chaudhary , B. Satpati , K. V. Raman

Electrostatic charges placed near the interface between ordinary and topological insulators induce magnetic fields, through the so-called topological magnetoelectric effect. Here, we present a numerical implementation of the associated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-29 Josep Planelles , Jose L. Movilla , Juan I. Climente

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

We theoretically study the magnetoresistance (MR) of two-dimensional massless Dirac electrons as found on the surface of three-dimensional topological insulators (3D TIs) that is capped by a ferromagnetic insulator (FI). We calculate charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-04 Takahiro Chiba , Saburo Takahashi , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

We explore potentials that break time-reversal symmetry to confine the surface states of 3D topological insulators into quantum wires and quantum dots. A magnetic domain wall on a ferromagnet insulator cap layer provides interfacial states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-06 Gerson J. Ferreira , Daniel Loss

We combine low energy muon spin rotation (LE-$\mu$SR) and soft-X-ray angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (SX-ARPES) to study the magnetic and electronic properties of magnetically doped topological insulators, (Bi,Sb)$_2$Te$_3$. We…

Two essential ingredients for the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect, i.e. topological and magnetic orders, can be combined by doping magnetic ions into a topological insulator (TI) film. Through this approach, the QAH effect has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Fei Wang , Yi-Fan Zhao , Zijie Yan , Hemian Yi , Wei Yuan , Lingjie Zhou , Weiwei Zhao , Moses H. W. Chan , Cui-Zu Chang

Weak antilocalization (WAL) and linear magnetoresistance (LMR) are two most commonly observed magnetoresistance (MR) phenomena in topological insulators (TIs) and often attributed to the Dirac topological surface states (TSS). However,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-12 Jifa Tian , Cuizu Chang , Helin Cao , Ke He , Xucun Ma , Qikun Xue , Yong P. Chen

Recently, in topological insulators (TIs) the phenomenon of planar Hall effect (PHE) wherein a current driven in presence an in-plane magnetic field generates a transverse voltage has been experimentally witnessed. There have been a couple…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Dhavala Suri , Abhiram Soori

The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE), the last member of Hall family, was predicted to exhibit quantized Hall conductivity e2/h without any external magnetic field. The QAHE shares a similar physical phenomenon with the integer quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Cui-Zu Chang , Mingda Li

It is crucial for the studies of the transport properties and quantum effects related to Dirac surface states of three-dimensional topological insulators (3D TIs) to be able to simultaneously tune the chemical potentials of both top and…

We determine the optical response of ultrathin film topological insulators in the presence of a quantizing external magnetic field taking into account both hybridization between surface states, broken inversion symmetry and explicit time…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 k. Rahim , A. Ullah , M. Tahir , K. Sabeeh

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

We focus on the transmission and reflection coefficients of light in systems involving of topological insulators (TI). Due to the electro-magnetic coupling in TIs, new mixing coefficients emerge leading to new components of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-25 Eitan Dvorquez , Benjamín Pavez , Qiang Sun , Felipe Pinto , Andrew D. Greentree , Brant C. Gibson , Jerónimo R. Maze

Recently, the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) has been theoretically proposed in compensated antiferromagnetic systems by using the magnetic topological insulator model [see arXiv:2404.13305 (2024)]. However, the related and systematic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-08 Zeyu Li , Yulei Han , Zhenhua Qiao

Topological Insulators are the best thermoelectric materials involving a sophisticated physics beyond their solid state and electronic structure. We show that exists a topological contribution to the thermoelectric effect that arise between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-24 Daniel Baldomir , Daniel Faílde

Two-dimensional (2D) topological insulators (TIs) with a large bulk band-gap are promising for experimental studies of the quantum spin Hall effect and for spintronic device applications. Despite considerable theoretical efforts in…

Bi$_{2}$Te$_{3}$ and Bi$_{2}$Se$_{3}$ are well known 3D-topological insulators. Films made of these materials exhibit metal-like surface states with a Dirac dispersion and possess high mobility. The high mobility metal-like surface states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Parijat Sengupta , Tillmann Kubis , Yaohua Tan , Gerhard Klimeck