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MA: Fachverband Magnetismus

MA 7: Transport: Topological Insulators - 2D
(Joint session of DS, HL, MA, O and TT organized by TT)

MA 7.9: Talk

Monday, March 7, 2016, 17:15–17:30, H18

Disorder induced zero Landau level in topological insulator nanowires and its signature in conductance fluctuations — •Emmanouil Xypakis and Jens H Bardarson — Max-Planck-Institut f. Physik komplexer Systeme Noethnitzer Str. 38, 01187 Dresden, Germany

In this talk I will discuss the quantum transport properties of a disordered topological insulator in a strong magnetic field. The focus is on the case when the chemical potential is close to the Dirac point, where the transport is dominated by induced chiral modes. Disorder has a drastic role in the system electrical response by revealing a zero Landau level, which is absent for clean topological insulators. We study the dependence of the zero Landau level energy window on the system parameters, such as system size, disorder and magnetic field strength.