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光偏振对拓扑绝缘体光电流的控制

Control over topological insulator photocurrents with light polarization

J. W. McIver, D. Hsieh, H. Steinberg, P. Jarillo-Herrero, N. Gedik

摘要:

三维拓扑绝缘体代表了一种新的量子相的物质与自旋极化的表面状态,是从反向散射的保护。这些表面态的静态电子性质已全面成像的光电子能谱和隧道光谱。理论家提出拓扑表面态也可以表现出新颖的电子对光的响应,例如拓扑量子相变和自旋极化电流。然而,光学驱动拓扑绝缘体脱离平衡的效果在很大程度上还没有被实验探索,也没有测量到光电流。在这里,我们表明,照射的拓扑绝缘体Bi 2 Se 3与圆偏振光产生的光电流,源于拓扑螺旋狄拉克费米子,反转的螺旋光反转的光电流的方向。我们还观察到一个光电流,是由光的线性偏振控制,并认为它也可能有一个拓扑表面态的起源。这种方法可以探测拓扑绝缘体的动态特性,并导致新的光自旋电子器件。

英文摘要:

Three-dimensional topological insulators represent a new quantum phase of matter with spin-polarized surface states that are protected from backscattering. The static electronic properties of these surface states have been comprehensively imaged by both photoemission and tunneling spectroscopies. Theorists have proposed that topological surface states can also exhibit novel electronic responses to light, such as topological quantum phase transitions and spin-polarized electrical currents. However, the effects of optically driving a topological insulator out of equilibrium have remained largely unexplored experimentally, and no photocurrents have been measured. Here we show that illuminating the topological insulator Bi2Se3 with circularly polarized light generates a photocurrent that originates from topological helical Dirac fermions, and that reversing the helicity of the light reverses the direction of the photocurrent. We also observe a photocurrent that is controlled by the linear polarization of light, and argue that it may also have a topological surface state origin. This approach may allow the probing of dynamic properties of topological insulators and lead to novel opto-spintronic devices.

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