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无序HgTe/CdTe量子阱中螺旋边态的演化

Evolutions of helical edge states in disordered HgTe/CdTe quantum wells

Liang Chen, Qin Liu, Xulin Lin, Xiaogang Zhang, Xunya Jiang

摘要:

研究了HgTe/CdTe量子阱中无序诱导边缘态随无序强度的演化。从超原胞的能带结构和波函数,它清楚地表明,导电螺旋边缘状态,这是负责报告的量子化电导平台,出现以上的临界无序强度后,间隙关闭相变。这些边缘状态,然后发现下降与无序强度的增加,在一个逐步的模式,由于有限宽度的效果,其中相对的边缘相互耦合,通过本地化的状态在散装。这是在鲜明的对比与本地化的边缘状态本身,如果磁紊乱掺杂,打破了时间反演对称性。通过标度分析得到了拓扑相的尺寸无关边界,并确定了在更强的无序下到Anderson绝缘体的Anderson转变,在其间,发现金属相将两个拓扑不同的相分开。

英文摘要:

We study the evolutions of the nonmagnetic disorder-induced edge states with the disorder strength in the HgTe/CdTe quantum wells. From the supercell band structures and wave-functions, it is clearly shown that the conducting helical edge states, which are responsible for the reported quantized conductance plateau, appear above a critical disorder strength after a gap-closing phase transition. These edge states are then found to decline with the increase of disorder strength in a stepwise pattern due to the finite-width effect, where the opposite edges couple with each other through the localized states in the bulk. This is in sharp contrast with the localization of the edge states themselves if magnetic disorders are doped which breaks the time-reversal symmetry. The size-independent boundary of the topological phase is obtained by scaling analysis, and an Anderson transition to an Anderson insulator at even stronger disorder is identified, in-between of which, a metallic phase is found to separate the two topologically distinct phases.

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