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蜿蜒传导通道与量子化电荷输运的可调性质

Meandering conduction channels and the tunable nature of quantized charge transport

Benoit Douçot, Dima Kovrizhin, Roderich Moessner

AI总结:

针对量子霍尔/Chern绝缘体中电流空间分布问题,论文理论证明边缘态可蜿蜒深入体相,并可通过实验参数在窄边缘通道、蜿蜒通道和不可压缩体相输运间连续调节。

摘要:

量子霍尔效应的发现开创了拓扑凝聚态物理学领域。其霍尔电导惊人精确的量子化如今已被纳入量子计量学,并受到拓扑保护:它对任何合理的微扰都保持稳定。反过来,拓扑保护因此意味着一种审查形式,因为它向观察者完全隐藏了任何局域信息。样品中电流的空间分布就是这样一种信息,但得益于引人注目的实验进展,如今它已变得可以获取。电流沿样品边缘在狭窄通道中流动这一直观上令人信服的原始图像是否在物理上正确,是一个由来已久的问题。受近期对 Chern 绝缘体 (Bi, Sb)$_2$Te$_3$ 异质结构中量子化电流流动进行局域成像的实验 [Rosen 等人,PRL 129, 246602 (2022);Ferguson 等人,Nat. Mater. 22, 1100-1105 (2023)] 启发,我们从理论上证明了宽阔的“边缘态”蜿蜒远离样品边界并深入样品体相内部的可能性。此外,我们表明改变实验参数可以在狭窄边缘态与蜿蜒通道之间连续调节,直至不可压缩体相输运。这解释了实验中观察到的各种特征以及不同实验之间的差异。总体而言,这强调了拓扑凝聚态物理学的稳健性,但也揭示了被拓扑审查所隐藏的丰富现象——我们相信其中大部分仍有待发现。

英文摘要:

The discovery of the quantum Hall effect founded the field of topological condensed matter physics. Its amazingly accurate quantisation of the Hall conductance, now enshrined in quantum metrology, is topologically protected: it is stable against any reasonable perturbation. Conversely, topological protection thus implies a form of censorship, as it completely hides any local information from the observer. The spatial distribution of the current in the sample is such a piece of information, which however has now become accessible thanks to spectacular experimental advances. It is an old question whether an original, and intuitively compelling, picture of the current flowing in a narrow channel along the sample edge is the physically correct one. Motivated by recent experiments $\textit{locally}$ imaging the quantized current flow in a Chern insulating (Bi, Sb)$_2$Te$_3$ heterostructure, [Rosen et al., PRL 129, 246602 (2022); Ferguson et.al, Nat. Mater. 22, 1100-1105 (2023)], we theoretically demonstrate the possibility of a broad `edge state' meandering away from the sample boundary deep into the sample bulk. Further, we show that varying experimental parameters permits continuously tuning between narrow edge states and meandering channels all the way to incompressible bulk transport. This accounts for various features observed in, and differing between, experiments. Overall, this underscores the robustness of topological condensed matter physics, but it also unveils a phenomenological richness hidden by topological censorship -- much of which we believe remains to be discovered.

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