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arXiv 2005.14055cond-mat.mes-hallcond-mat.mtrl-sciquant-ph
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异形拓扑绝缘体纳米线的磁输运理论

Theory of magnetotransport in shaped topological insulator nanowires

Ansgar Graf, Raphael Kozlovsky, Klaus Richter, Cosimo Gorini

摘要:

我们表明,形状的拓扑绝缘体(TI)纳米线,即,使其横截面半径沿导线长度变化,可以被调谐到一些不同的运输制度时,沉浸在一个均匀的同轴磁场。这与广泛研究的具有恒定横截面的管状纳米线形成对比,并且是由于狄拉克表面载流子的磁约束。在平坦的2D系统中,这样的限制需要非均匀磁场,而对于标准尺寸的成形纳米线,$B\sim\,1$ T量级的均匀场就足够了。我们把最近的工作[Kozlovsky等人,物理修订版信函124,126804(2020)]中,并将其扩展到更广泛的背景中,以处理具有任意径向轮廓的轴对称线几何形状。哑铃形TI纳米线被用作通过收缩传输的范例,并且被示出为可调谐成五种不同的传输机制:(i)电导阶跃,(ii)共振传输,(iii)电流抑制,(iv)库仑阻塞,以及(v)通过三重量子点传输。通过调制同轴磁场的强度来实现状态之间的切换,并且不需要导线横截面的严格轴对称。因此,它应该是可观察到的TI纳米线制造可用的实验技术。

英文摘要:

We show that shaped topological insulator (TI) nanowires, i.e. such that their cross-section radius varies along the wire length, can be tuned into a number of different transport regimes when immersed in a homogeneous coaxial magnetic field. This is in contrast with widely studied tubular nanowires with constant cross-section, and is due to magnetic confinement of Dirac surface carriers. In flat 2D systems such a confinement requires non-homogeneous magnetic fields, while for shaped nanowires of standard size homogeneous fields of the order of $B\sim\,1$T are sufficient. We put recent work [Kozlovsky et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 126804 (2020)] into broader context and extend it to deal with axially symmetric wire geometries with arbitrary radial profile. A dumbbell-shaped TI nanowire is used as a paradigmatic example for transport through a constriction and shown to be tunable into five different transport regimes: (i) conductance steps, (ii) resonant transmission, (iii) current suppression, (iv) Coulomb blockade, and (v) transport through a triple quantum dot. Switching between regimes is achieved by modulating the strength of a coaxial magnetic field and does not require strict axial symmetry of the wire cross-section. As such, it should be observable in TI nanowires fabricated with available experimental techniques.

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