Switching spin and charge between edge states in topological insulator constrictions

V Krueckl, K Richter - Physical review letters, 2011 - APS
We show how the coupling between opposite edge states, which overlap in a constriction
made of the topological insulator mercury telluride (HgTe), can be employed both for …

Electric control of Fermi arc spin transport in individual topological semimetal nanowires

BC Lin, S Wang, AQ Wang, Y Li, RR Li, K **a, D Yu… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
The exotic topological surface states of Dirac or Weyl semimetals, namely Fermi arcs, are
predicted to be spin polarized, while their spin polarization nature is still not revealed by …

Full electrical control of charge and spin conductance through interferometry of edge states in topological insulators

F Dolcini - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2011 - APS
We investigate electron interferometry of edge states in topological insulators. We show that
when interboundary coupling is induced at two quantum point contacts of a four terminal …

Higher-order Fabry-Pérot interferometer from topological hinge states

CA Li, SB Zhang, J Li, B Trauzettel - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We propose an intrinsic three-dimensional Fabry-Pérot type interferometer, coined “higher-
order interferometer,” that is based on the chiral hinge states of second-order topological …

Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in minimally twisted bilayer graphene

C De Beule, F Dominguez, P Recher - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We investigate transport in the network of valley Hall states that emerges in minimally
twisted bilayer graphene under interlayer bias. To this aim, we construct a scattering theory …

In-plane topological pn junction in the three-dimensional topological insulator Bi2−xSbxTe3−ySey

NH Tu, Y Tanabe, Y Satake, KK Huynh… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
A topological pn junction (TPNJ) is an important concept to control spin and charge transport
on a surface of three-dimensional topological insulators (3D-TIs). Here we report successful …

Quantized field-effect tunneling between topological edge or interface states

Y Xu, YR Chen, J Wang, JF Liu, Z Ma - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
We study the tunneling through a two-dimensional topological insulator with topologically
protected edge states. It is shown that the tunneling probability can be quantized in a broad …

Topological properties of multiterminal superconducting nanostructures: Effect of a continuous spectrum

EV Repin, Y Chen, YV Nazarov - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Recently, it has been shown that multiterminal superconducting nanostructures may
possess topological properties that involve Berry curvatures in the parametric space of the …

Bound states and persistent currents in topological insulator rings

P Michetti, P Recher - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2011 - APS
We analyze theoretically the bound-state spectrum of an Aharonov Bohm ring in a two-
dimensional topological insulator using the four-band model of HgTe quantum wells as a …

Single and bilayer graphene on the topological insulator : Electronic and spin-orbit properties from first principles

K Zollner, J Fabian - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
We present a detailed study of the electronic and spin-orbit properties of single and bilayer
graphene in proximity to the topological insulator Bi 2 Se 3. Our approach is based on first …