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弱拓扑绝缘体的强侧

The strong side of weak topological insulators

Zohar Ringel, Yaacov E. Kraus, Ady Stern

摘要:

三维拓扑绝缘体根据其表面态的性质分为“强”(STI)和“弱”(WTI)。虽然STI的表面状态在拓扑上被保护免于局部化,但这并不适用于WTI。在这项工作中,我们表明,表面状态的WTI实际上是保护任何随机扰动,不打破时间反演对称性,并没有关闭的散装能隙。因此,即使存在这种类型的强无序,清洁系统中金属表面的导电性仍然是有限的。在弱无序极限的表面被发现是完美的金属,和强表面无序只起到推动金属表面向内。我们发现,WTI不同于STI主要是在其各向异性,各向异性是不是它的弱点,而是它的丰富性的标志。

英文摘要:

Three-dimensional topological insulators are classified into "strong" (STI) and "weak" (WTI) according to the nature of their surface states. While the surface states of the STI are topologically protected from localization, this does not hold for the WTI. In this work we show that the surface states of the WTI are actually protected from any random perturbation that does not break time-reversal symmetry, and does not close the bulk energy gap. Consequently, the conductivity of metallic surfaces in the clean system remains finite even in the presence of strong disorder of this type. In the weak disorder limit the surfaces are found to be perfect metals, and strong surface disorder only acts to push the metallic surfaces inwards. We find that the WTI differs from the STI primarily in its anisotropy, and that the anisotropy is not a sign of its weakness but rather of its richness.

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