Strongly Surface State Carrier‐Dependent Spin–Orbit Torque in Magnetic Topological Insulators

Enhancement of surface photocurrents in topological insulators using magnetic superlattices

The gapless surface states of topological insulators (TI) can potentially be used to detect and harvest low-frequency infrared light. Nonetheless, it was shown that significant surface photocurrents due to light with frequency below the bulk gap are rather hard to produce. Here we demonstrate that a periodic magnetic pattern added to the surface dramatically enhances surface photocurrents in TI...

Lighting up topological insulators: large surface photocurrents from magnetic superlattices

Netanel H. Lindner,1 Aaron Farrell,2, 3 Eran Lustig,1 Felix von Oppen,4 and Gil Refael3 Department of Physics, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel Department of Physics and the Centre for Physics of Materials, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2T8 Institute of Quantum Information and Matter, Dept. of Physics, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125 Dahlem Center for Complex Quantum Systems and Fach...

Surface state magnetization and chiral edge states on topological insulators.

We study the interaction between a ferromagnetically ordered medium and the surface states of a topological insulator with a general surface termination that were identified recently [F. Zhang et al. Phys. Rev. B 86, 081303(R) (2012)]. This interaction is strongly crystal face dependent and can generate chiral states along edges between crystal facets even for a uniform magnetization. While mag...

Topological insulators: The surface surfaces.

Surface States of Topological Insulators

We introduce a topological boundary condition to study the surface states of topological insulators within a long-wavelength four-band model. We find that the Dirac point energy, the band curvature, and the spin texture of surface states are crystal-face dependent. For an arbitrary termination of a bulk crystal, the energy of the symmetry protected Dirac point is determined by the bulk physics ...