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薄膜拓扑绝缘体中的巨磁光克尔效应和万有法拉第效应

Giant Magneto-optical Kerr Effect and Universal Faraday Effect in Thin-film Topological Insulators

Wang-Kong Tse, A. H. MacDonald

摘要:

当拓扑绝缘体的时间反演对称性被破缺时,它会表现出很强的磁电效应。本文研究了与铁磁体弱交换耦合的拓扑绝缘体薄膜的磁光克尔效应和法拉第效应。我们发现它的法拉第旋转在低频有一个普适值,$θ_{\mathrm{F}} = \mathrm{tan}^{-1}\,α$,其中$α$是真空精细结构常数,它有一个巨大的克尔旋转$θ_{\mathrm{K}} = π/2$。这些性质来自于薄膜腔限制和拓扑绝缘体的螺旋准粒子的表面霍尔电导率之间的微妙相互作用。

英文摘要:

Topological insulators can exhibit strong magnetoelectric effects when their time-reversal symmetry is broken. In this Letter we consider the magneto-optical Kerr and Faraday effects of a topological insulator thin film weakly exchange-coupled to a ferromagnet. We find that its Faraday rotation has a universal value at low-frequencies, $θ_{\mathrm{F}} = \mathrm{tan}^{-1}\,α$ where $α$ is the vacuum fine structure constant, and that it has a giant Kerr rotation $θ_{\mathrm{K}} = π/2$. These properties follow from a delicate interplay between thin-film cavity confinement and the surface Hall conductivity of a topological insulator's helical quasiparticles.

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