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DS: Fachverband Dünne Schichten

DS 1: Transport: Topological Insulators (jointly with DS, MA, HL, O)

DS 1.10: Talk

Monday, March 20, 2017, 12:00–12:15, HSZ 204

Parity anomaly driven topological transitions in magnetic field — •Jan Böttcher, Christian Tutschku, and Ewelina M. Hankiewicz — Institut für Theoretische Physik und Astronomie, Uni Würzburg, 97074 Würzburg, Germany

Recent developments in solid state physics give a prospect to observe the parity anomaly in (2+1)D massive Dirac systems. We show, that the charge neutrality condition for a quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) state in orbital magnetic fields gets modified by an additional term originating from an intrinsic Chern-Simons term in the one loop Lagrangian. This can be utilized to experimentally differentiate the QAH from the quantum Hall (QH) state at charge neutrality [1]. As a result, an experimental signature of the QAH phase in magnetic fields is a long σ_xy= e²/h (σ_xy= −e²/h) plateau in Cr_x(Bi_1−ySb_y)_2−xTe₃ (HgMnTe quantum wells). Furthermore, we predict a new transition between the quantum spin Hall (QSH) and the QAH state in magnetic fields without magnetic impurities but driven by effective g-factors and particle-hole asymmetry.

[1] J. Böttcher, C. Tutschku, E. M. Hankiewicz, arXiv:1607.07768v1