Studies on Time-reversal Invariant Topological Insulators

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  • Author : Joseph Maciejko
  • Release Date : 2011
  • Publisher : Stanford University
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  • Pages : 242
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  • File Size : 25,25 MB
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Book Description: This dissertation brings together a number of topics in the theory of time-reversal invariant topological insulators. The first four chapters are devoted to the transport properties of the two-dimensional (2D) quantum spin Hall state. We explain nonlocal transport measurements in mercury telluride (HgTe) quantum wells in terms of a Landauer-Büttiker theory of helical edge transport and confirm the discovery of the quantum spin Hall state in this material. We find that decoherence can lead to backscattering without breaking microscopic time-reversal symmetry. As an example of incoherent scattering, we study a Kondo impurity in an interacting helical edge liquid. A renormalization group analysis shows the existence of an impurity quantum phase transition governed by the Luttinger parameter of the edge liquid between a local helical Fermi liquid with T^6 scaling of the low-temperature conductance, and an insulating strongly correlated phase with fractionally charged emergent excitations. In the presence of a time-reversal symmetry breaking magnetic field, it is known that even coherent scattering can lead to backscattering. Through exact numerical diagonalization we find that nonmagnetic quenched disorder has a strong localizing effect on the edge transport if the disorder strength is comparable to the bulk gap. The predicted magnetoconductance agrees qualitatively with experiment. The last two chapters are devoted to 3D topological insulators. We propose a combined magnetooptical Kerr and Faraday rotation experiment as a universal measure of the Z_2 invariant. Finally, we propose a fractional generalization of 3D topological insulators in strongly correlated systems, characterized by ground state degeneracy on topologically nontrivial spatial 3-manifolds, a quantized fractional bulk magnetoelectric polarizability without time-reversal symmetry breaking, and a halved fractional quantum Hall effect on the surface.

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