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拓扑绝缘体的金属化

Metalization of topological insulators

Beijing Institute of Technology(北京理工大学);Beijing Normal University(北京师范大学)

Xian-Peng Zhang, Yan-Qing Feng, Ji-Feng Shao, Haiwen Liu, Yugui Yao

AI总结:

本文研究拓扑绝缘体中量子输运机制,发现量子退相干导致纵向导电性,其导电性与杂质密度线性相关,且与温度成反比,挑战传统金属-绝缘体区分。

摘要:

在现代凝聚态理论中,电子物质的相——如金属和绝缘体——本质上通过低温下费米面附近是否存在载流子准粒子或激发来区分。本文表明,在伯里曲率主导系统中,这一标准失效,因为输运由整个费米海的能带相干性主导。我们发展了 bulk 拓扑绝缘体中量子输运的微观理论,其中费米能处的态密度为零,传统德鲁德贡献不存在。我们证明,杂质散射诱导的相干衰减在拓扑平凡区域生成独特的纵向输运通道,边缘贡献被严格排除。该机制即使在费米能处无载流子时也产生有限的纵向电导率,并在稀释极限下表现出与德鲁德行为截然不同的线性杂质密度尺度。重要的是,这种由退相干诱导的导电性与温度成反比,类似于奇异金属行为,最显著地在铜基超导体临界温度以上观察到。本文发现量子退相干是超越德鲁德范式下纵向输运的根本起源,挑战传统金属-绝缘体区分。

英文摘要:

In modern condensed matter theory, phases of electronic matter--such as metals and insulators-are fundamentally distinguished by the presence or absence of charge-carrying quasiparticles or excitations near the Fermi surface at low temperatures. Here, we show that this criterion breaks down in Berry-curvature-dominated systems, where transport is governed by interband coherence across the entire Fermi sea. We develop a microscopic theory of quantum transport in bulk topological insulators with a vanishing density of states at the Fermi energy, for which the conventional Drude contribution is absent. We demonstrate that impurity-scattering-induced coherence decay generates a distinct longitudinal transport channel even in the topologically trivial regime, with edge contributions rigorously excluded. This mechanism yields a finite longitudinal conductivity even in the absence of carriers at the Fermi level and exhibits an unconventional scaling linear in impurity density in the dilute limit, in stark contrast to Drude behaviour. Importantly, this decoherence-induced conductance is inversely proportional to temperature, reminiscent of strange-metal behaviour, most prominently observed in cuprate superconductors above their critical temperature. Our findings reveal quantum decoherence as a fundamental origin of longitudinal transport beyond the Drude paradigm, challenging the traditional distinction between metals and insulators.

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