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拓扑绝缘体的持续光学门控

Persistent Optical Gating of a Topological Insulator

Andrew L. Yeats, Yu Pan, Anthony Richardella, Peter J. Mintun, Nitin Samarth, David D. Awschalom

摘要:

拓扑绝缘体由于其自旋极化的表面态和边缘态而引起了人们的广泛关注,而其对称性的起源又赋予了它们有趣的量子力学性质。如果这些状态要在新技术中变得有用,或者作为奇异物理学的场所,那么对TI材料的化学势的鲁棒控制是重要的。不幸的是,化学势调谐在TI中是具有挑战性的,部分原因是静电顶栅的制造往往会降低材料性能,并且化学掺杂剂或吸附物的添加可能导致不希望的无序。在这里,我们提出了一种全光学技术,它允许持久的,双向门控的(Bi,Sb)2Te3通道,通过光学操纵的电荷的分布下,其与绝缘SrTiO 3基板的界面。以这种方式,我们光学图案pn结在TI材料,我们随后使用扫描光电流显微镜图像。在TI中动态写入和重写介观电子结构的能力可能有助于研究拓扑绝缘相的独特性质。光学选通效应可以适用于其他材料系统,为可重构电子器件提供更通用的机制。

英文摘要:

Topological insulators (TIs) have attracted much attention due to their spin-polarized surface and edge states, whose origin in symmetry gives them intriguing quantum-mechanical properties. Robust control over the chemical potential of TI materials is important if these states are to become useful in new technologies, or as a venue for exotic physics. Unfortunately, chemical potential tuning is challenging in TIs in part because the fabrication of electrostatic top-gates tends to degrade material properties and the addition of chemical dopants or adsorbates can cause unwanted disorder. Here, we present an all-optical technique which allows persistent, bidirectional gating of a (Bi,Sb)2Te3 channel by optically manipulating the distribution of electric charge below its interface with an insulating SrTiO3 substrate. In this fashion we optically pattern p-n junctions in a TI material, which we subsequently image using scanning photocurrent microscopy. The ability to dynamically write and re-write mesoscopic electronic structures in a TI may aid in the investigation of the unique properties of the topological insulating phase. The optical gating effect may be adaptable to other material systems, providing a more general mechanism for reconfigurable electronics.

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