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DS: Fachverband Dünne Schichten

DS 17: Transport: Topological Insulators 3 (joint session with DS, HL, MA, O)

DS 17.5: Vortrag

Dienstag, 17. März 2015, 15:00–15:15, H 0110

Broken-gap topological insulators in magnetic fields — Rafał Skolasinski¹, Dimitry Pikulin², and •Michael Wimmer¹ — ¹Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands — ²University of British Columbia, Canada

Two-dimensional topological insulators have helical edge channels protected by time-reversal symmetry, leading to a quantized conductance within the topological gap. A magnetic field breaks time-reversal symmetry, and thus is expected to break the quantization of conductance. Yet, recent experiments on topological insulators in broken-gap InAs/GaSb quantum wells have found very little dependence on magnetic field [1]. We discuss the effects of the orbital and the Zeeman part of the magnetic field on broken-gap quantum wells, and consider in which regime quantized conductance can be preserved.

[1] L. Du et al., arXiv:1306.1925