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污秽相互作用拓扑绝缘体的无间隙绝缘边缘

Gapless insulating edges of dirty interacting topological insulators

Yang-Zhi Chou, Rahul M. Nandkishore, Leo Radzihovsky

摘要:

我们证明了二维块状拓扑绝缘体中的无序和相互作用的组合可以一般地驱动其螺旋边缘绝缘。我们建立这一框架内的螺旋Luttinger液体理论和精确的Emery-Luther映射。无带隙玻璃边缘态以“自旋玻璃”的方式自发地打破时间反转对称性,并且可以被视为携带半整数电荷的孤立子的局域态。这样一个性质上不同的边缘状态为迄今为止令人困惑的实验观察提供了一个简单的解释。这一阶段表现出惊人的非单调性,与边缘增长本地化弱和强的无序限制。

英文摘要:

We demonstrate that a combination of disorder and interactions in a two-dimensional bulk topological insulator can generically drive its helical edge insulating. We establish this within the framework of helical Luttinger liquid theory and exact Emery-Luther mapping. The gapless glassy edge state spontaneously breaks time-reversal symmetry in a `spin glass' fashion, and may be viewed as a localized state of solitons which carry half integer charge. Such a qualitatively distinct edge state provides a simple explanation for heretofore puzzling experimental observations. This phase exhibits a striking non-monotonicity, with the edge growing less localized in both the weak and strong disorder limits.

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