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无隙系统中的轴子响应

Axion response in gapless systems

Doron L. Bergman

摘要:

三维强拓扑绝缘体有望实现量子化的磁电响应,即所谓的轴子响应。然而,许多被预测为拓扑绝缘体的材料已经被证明是金属的,具有体费米表面。根据Bergman等人(Phys.Rev.B82,195417(2010))的结果,即即使当能带结构间隙闭合时,拓扑绝缘体的螺旋表面态也持续存在,我们探索了这种系统中磁电响应的命运。我们发现一个非量子化的磁电耦合仍然存在,一旦体费米表面打开-一个非普遍的轴子响应。更一般地说,我们发现,更高维的类似物的固有异常霍尔效应出现\emph{every}陈形式-非量子化的响应系数的无间隙系统,而不是量子化的传输系数在有间隙的系统,都与拓扑起源。特别地,3D中的非量子化磁电响应从4D中的固有异常霍尔效应模拟下降。

英文摘要:

The strong topological insulator in 3D is expected to realize a quantized magneto-electric response, the so-called axion response. However, many of the materials predicted to be topological insulators have turned out to be metallic, with bulk Fermi surfaces. Following the result of Bergman et al. (Phys. Rev. B 82, 195417 (2010)) that the helical surface states of the topological insulator persist even when the band structure gap is closed, we explore the fate of the magneto-electric response in such systems. We find a non-quantized magneto-electric coupling remains once a bulk Fermi surface opens - a non-universal axion response. More generally we find that higher dimensional analogs of the intrinsic anomalous Hall effect appear for \emph{every} Chern form - non-quantized response coefficients for gapless systems, as opposed to quantized transport coefficients in gapped systems, both with a topological origin. In particular, the non-quantized magneto-electric response in 3D descends from the intrinsic anomalous Hall effect analog in 4D.

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