Instituto de Física da Universidade de São Paulo, 135960-170 São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia.
Phys Rev Lett. 2013 Feb 15;110(7):076805. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.076805. Epub 2013 Feb 14.
We have studied quantized transport in HgTe wells with inverted band structure corresponding to the two-dimensional topological insulator phase (2D TI) with locally controlled density allowing n-p-n and n-2D TI-n junctions. The resistance reveals the fractional plateau 2h/e(2) in the n-p-n regime in the presence of the strong perpendicular magnetic field. We found that in the n-2D TI-n regime the plateaux in resistance in not universal and results from the edge state equilibration at the interface between chiral and helical edge modes. We provided the simple model describing the resistance quantization in n-2D TI-n regime.
我们研究了具有倒置能带结构的 HgTe 量子阱中的量子输运,该能带结构对应于二维拓扑绝缘体相(2D TI),具有局部控制的密度,允许 n-p-n 和 n-2D TI-n 结。在强垂直磁场存在的情况下,电阻呈现出分数平台 2h/e(2)。我们发现,在 n-2D TI-n 区域,电阻的平台不是普遍存在的,而是源于手性和螺旋边缘模式之间界面处的边缘态平衡。我们提供了一个简单的模型来描述 n-2D TI-n 区域的电阻量子化。