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arXiv 1803.01490cond-mat.mtrl-sci
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拓扑绝缘体中的级联非线性磁光效应

A cascading nonlinear magneto-optical effect in topological insulators

Richarj Mondal, Yuta Saito, Yuki Aihara, Paul Fons, Alexander V. Kolobov, Junji Tominaga, Shuichi Murakami, Muneaki Hase

摘要:

拓扑绝缘体(TI)的特征在于具有金属(无带隙)表面态和体中的有限带隙态。当TI层的厚度减小到几纳米时,由于量子隧穿,顶表面和底表面之间发生杂交,因此在临界厚度处发生从3D-TI到2D绝缘体的交叉。虽然这种交叉通常可以通过扫描隧道显微镜或角分辨光电子能谱来获得,但这种测量需要清洁的表面。在这里,我们证明了级联非线性磁光效应通过强自旋轨道耦合诱导可以检查这样的交叉。时间分辨的克尔旋转的螺旋度依赖表现出一个强大的周期性变化在一个临界厚度,从它是可能的预测形成的狄拉克锥在几个五倍层厚的膜。该方法能够使用基本非线性光学效应预测狄拉克锥,该基本非线性光学效应可以应用于广泛的TI和相关的2D材料。

英文摘要:

Topological insulators (TIs) are characterized by possessing metallic (gapless) surface states and a finite band-gap state in the bulk. As the thickness of a TI layer decreases down to a few nanometer, hybridization between the top and bottom surfaces takes place due to quantum tunneling, consequently at a critical thickness a crossover from a 3D-TI to a 2D insulator occurs. Although such a crossover is generally accessible by scanning tunneling microscopy, or by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, such measurements require clean surfaces. Here, we demonstrate that a cascading nonlinear magneto-optical effect induced via strong spin-orbit coupling can examine such crossovers. The helicity dependence of the time-resolved Kerr rotation exhibits a robust change in periodicity at a critical thickness, from which it is possible to predict the formation of a Dirac cone in a film several quintuple layers thick. This method enables prediction of a Dirac cone using a fundamental nonlinear optical effect that can be applied to a wide range of TIs and related 2D materials.

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