Tuesday, January 29, 2013

1301.6460 (Huichao Li et al.)

Making Quantum Spin-Hall Effect Robust via Magnetic Manipulation    [PDF]

Huichao Li, L. Sheng, R. Shen, L. B. Shao, Baigeng Wang, D. N. Sheng, D. Y. Xing
The quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect is known to be unstable to perturbations violating time-reversal symmetry. We show that creating a narrow ferromagnetic (FM) region near the edge of a QSH sample can push one of the counterpropagating edge states to the inner boundary of the FM region, and leave the other at the outer boundary, without changing their spin polarizations and propagation directions. Since the two edge states are spatially separated into different "lanes", the QSH effect becomes robust against symmetry-breaking perturbations.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.6460

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