Topological Insulator: A New Quantized Spin Hall Resistance Robust to Dephasing

被引：91

作者：

Jiang, Hua ^{[1
]}

Cheng, Shuguang ^{[1
]}

Sun, Qing-feng ^{[1
]}

Xie, X. C. ^{[1
,2
]}

机构：

[1] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Phys, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China

[2] Oklahoma State Univ, Dept Phys, Stillwater, OK 74078 USA

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS | 2009年 / 103卷 / 03期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

HGTE QUANTUM-WELLS; PHASE-TRANSITION; STATE;

D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.036803

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

The dephasing effect on the quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE) is studied. Without dephasing, the longitudinal resistance in a QSHE system exhibits the quantum plateaus. We find that these quantum plateaus are robust against the normal dephasing but fragile with the spin dephasing. Thus, these quantum plateaus survive only in mesoscopic samples. Moreover, the longitudinal resistance increases linearly with the sample length but is insensitive to the sample width. These characters are in excellent agreement with the recent experimental results [Science 318, 766 (2007)]. In addition, we define a new spin Hall resistance that also exhibits quantum plateaus. In particular, these plateaus are robust against any type of dephasing and therefore, survive in macroscopic samples and better reflect the topological nature of QSHE.

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