Ezawa Motohiko
Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, 113-8656, Japan.
Sci Rep. 2013 Dec 6;3:3435. doi: 10.1038/srep03435.
As a topological insulator, the quantum Hall (QH) effect is indexed by the Chern and spin-Chern numbers C and Cspin. We have only Cspin = 0 or ± 1/2 in conventional QH systems. We investigate QH effects in generic monolayer honeycomb systems. We search for spin-resolved characteristic patterns by exploring Hofstadter's butterfly diagrams in the lattice theory and fan diagrams in the low-energy Dirac theory. It is shown that the spin-Chern number can takes an arbitrary high value for certain QH systems. This is a new type of topological insulators, which we may call high spin-Chern insulators. Samples may be provided by graphene on the SiC substrate with ferromagnetic order, transition-metal dichalcogenides with ferromagnetic order, transition-metal oxide with antiferromagnetic order and silicene with ferromagnetic order. Actually high spin-Chern insulators are ubiquitous in any systems with magnetic order. Nevertheless, the honeycomb system would provide us with unique materials for practical materialization.
作为一种拓扑绝缘体,量子霍尔(QH)效应由陈数和自旋陈数C及Cspin表征。在传统的QH系统中,我们仅有Cspin = 0或±1/2。我们研究一般单层蜂窝系统中的QH效应。我们通过在晶格理论中探索霍夫施塔特蝴蝶图以及在低能狄拉克理论中探索扇形图来寻找自旋分辨特征模式。结果表明,对于某些QH系统,自旋陈数可以取任意高的值。这是一种新型的拓扑绝缘体,我们可称之为高自旋陈绝缘体。样品可由具有铁磁序的SiC衬底上的石墨烯、具有铁磁序的过渡金属二硫属化物、具有反铁磁序的过渡金属氧化物以及具有铁磁序的硅烯提供。实际上,高自旋陈绝缘体在任何具有磁序的系统中都普遍存在。尽管如此,蜂窝系统将为我们提供用于实际实现的独特材料。