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平行磁场驱动下拓扑绝缘体薄膜的量子相变

Parallel magnetic field driven quantum phase transition in a thin topological insulator film

A. A. Zyuzin, M. D. Hook, A. A. Burkov

摘要:

众所周知,三维拓扑绝缘体(TI)的螺旋表面态不响应于静态面内磁场。从形式上讲,这是因为面内磁场在表面态的狄拉克哈密顿量中表现为矢量势,因此可以通过表面电子波函数的规范变换来去除。在这里,我们表明,当顶部和底部表面的薄膜的TI杂化和费米能级是在杂化间隙,出现非零的抗磁响应。此外,量子相变发生在一个有限的临界值的平行场从一个绝缘体的抗磁响应的半金属与消失的平行场的响应。

英文摘要:

It is well-known that helical surface states of a three-dimensional topological insulator (TI) do not respond to a static in-plane magnetic field. Formally this occurs because the in-plane magnetic field appears as a vector potential in the Dirac Hamiltonian of the surface states and can thus be removed by a gauge transformation of the surface electron wavefunctions. Here we show that when the top and bottom surfaces of a thin film of TI are hybridized and the Fermi level is in the hybridization gap, a nonzero diamagnetic response appears. Moreover, a quantum phase transition occurs at a finite critical value of the parallel field from an insulator with a diamagnetic response to a semimetal with a vanishing response to the parallel field.

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