Topological insulators and superconductors

XL Qi, SC Zhang - Reviews of modern physics, 2011 - APS
Topological insulators are new states of quantum matter which cannot be adiabatically
connected to conventional insulators and semiconductors. They are characterized by a full …

Rare-earth mononitrides

F Natali, BJ Ruck, NOV Plank, HJ Trodahl… - Progress in Materials …, 2013 - Elsevier
When the rare earth mononitrides (RENs) first burst onto the scientific scene in the middle of
last century, there were feverish dreams that their strong magnetic moment would afford a …

Tolerance of Topological Surface States towards Magnetic Moments: Fe on

MR Scholz, J Sánchez-Barriga, D Marchenko… - Physical Review Letters, 2012 - APS
We study the effect of Fe impurities deposited on the surface of the topological insulator Bi 2
Se 3 by means of core-level and angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy. The …

Interplay between superconductivity and ferromagnetism on a topological insulator

J Linder, Y Tanaka, T Yokoyama, A Sudbø… - Physical Review B …, 2010 - APS
We study theoretically proximity-induced superconductivity and ferromagnetism on the
surface of a topological insulator. In particular, we investigate how the Andreev-bound states …

Growth and characterization of hybrid insulating ferromagnet-topological insulator heterostructure devices

A Kandala, A Richardella, DW Rench… - Applied Physics …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
We report the integration of the insulating ferromagnet GdN with epitaxial films of the
topological insulator Bi 2 Se 3 and present detailed structural, magnetic, and transport …

Parallel magnetic field driven quantum phase transition in a thin topological insulator film

AA Zyuzin, MD Hook, AA Burkov - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and …, 2011 - APS
It is well known that helical surface states of a three-dimensional topological insulator (TI) do
not respond to a static in-plane magnetic field. Formally this occurs because the in-plane …

Spin torques and charge transport on the surface of topological insulator

A Sakai, H Kohno - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
We study various aspects of interplay between two-dimensional helical electrons, realized
on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator, and the magnetization of a …

Spin-and valley-dependent transport through arrays of ferromagnetic silicene junctions

N Missault, P Vasilopoulos, V Vargiamidis, FM Peeters… - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
We study ballistic transport of Dirac fermions in silicene through arrays of barriers, of width d,
in the presence of an exchange field M and a tunable potential of height U or depth− U. The …

Solvothermal Synthesis of Lateral Heterojunction Sb2Te3/Bi2Te3 Nanoplates

F Fei, Z Wei, Q Wang, P Lu, S Wang, Y Qin, D Pan… - Nano Letters, 2015 - ACS Publications
A lateral heterojunction of topological insulator Sb2Te3/Bi2Te3 was successfully
synthesized using a two-step solvothermal method. The two crystalline components were …

Electron tunneling through double magnetic barriers on the surface of a topological insulator

Z Wu, FM Peeters, K Chang - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and …, 2010 - APS
We study electron tunneling through a planar magnetic and electric barrier on the surface of
a three-dimensional topological insulator. For the double barrier structures, we find (i) a …