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Dirac半金属薄膜中的拓扑Anderson绝缘相

Topological Anderson insulator phase in a Dirac-semimetal thin film

Rui Chen, Dong-Hui Xu, Bin Zhou

摘要:

最近发现的拓扑狄拉克半金属代表了一种新的奇异的量子态的物质。拓扑狄拉克半金属可以被看作是石墨烯的三维类似物,其中狄拉克节点受到晶体对称性的保护。研究发现量子限制效应可以使狄拉克节点空出来,使狄拉克半金属转变为带绝缘体。根据薄膜的厚度,带绝缘体可以是普通绝缘体,也可以是量子自旋霍尔绝缘体。本文研究了Dirac半金属薄膜中的无序效应。研究发现,在狄拉克半金属薄膜中,适度的安德森无序强度可以驱动从正常带绝缘体到拓扑安德森绝缘体的拓扑相变。基于Dirac半金属Na $_{3}$ Bi模型参数的数值计算表明,在拓扑Anderson绝缘体相中,带绝缘体的体隙中出现了量子化电导平台,局域电流分布进一步证实了量子化电导平台是由无序诱导的螺旋边缘态产生的.最后,采用基于玻恩近似的有效介质理论对数值结果进行了拟合.

英文摘要:

The recently discovered topological Dirac semimetal represents a new exotic quantum state of matter. Topological Dirac semimetals can be viewed as three dimensional analogues of graphene, in which the Dirac nodes are protected by crystalline symmetry. It has been found that quantum confinement effect can gap out Dirac nodes and convert Dirac semimetal to a band insulator. The band insulator is either normal insulator or quantum spin Hall insulator depending on the thin film thickness. We present the study of disorder effects in thin film of Dirac semimetals. It is found that moderate Anderson disorder strength can drive a topological phase transition from normal band insulator to topological Anderson insulator in Dirac semimetal thin film. The numerical calculation based on the model parameters of Dirac semimetal Na$_{3}$Bi shows that in the topological Anderson insulator phase a quantized conductance plateau occurs in the bulk gap of band insulator, and the distributions of local currents further confirm that the quantized conductance plateau arises from the helical edge states induced by disorder. Finally, an effective medium theory based on Born approximation fits the numerical data.

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