Two-dimensional superconductivity and topological states in thin films

C Liu, CS Lian, MH Liao, Y Wang, Y Zhong, C Ding… - Physical Review …, 2018 - APS
We report on a bottom-up approach via molecular-beam epitaxy to grow high-quality
crystalline two-dimensional films of PdTe 2 on SrTiO 3 (001), and investigation on the …

Strongly exchange-coupled and surface-state-modulated magnetization dynamics in Bi2Se3/yttrium iron garnet heterostructures

YT Fanchiang, KHM Chen, CC Tseng, CC Chen… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Harnessing the spin–momentum locking of topological surface states in conjunction with
magnetic materials is the first step to realize novel topological insulator-based devices …

Nanoscale Near-Field Tomography of Surface States on (Bi0.5Sb0.5)2Te3

F Mooshammer, F Sandner, MA Huber… - Nano Letters, 2018 - ACS Publications
Three-dimensional topological insulators (TIs) have attracted tremendous interest for their
possibility to host massless Dirac Fermions in topologically protected surface states (TSSs) …

[HTML][HTML] Ferromagnetic insulator Cr2Ge2Te6 thin films with perpendicular remanence

M Mogi, A Tsukazaki, Y Kaneko, R Yoshimi… - Apl Materials, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Ferromagnetic van der Waals (vdW) insulators possess robust magnetic order even in a few
layers of two-dimensional sheets. The heterostructures of such vdW materials prepared by …

Efficient charge-spin conversion and magnetization switching through the Rashba effect at topological-insulator/Ag interfaces

S Shi, A Wang, Y Wang, R Ramaswamy, L Shen… - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
We report the observation of efficient charge-to-spin conversion in the three-dimensional
topological insulator (TI) B i 2 S e 3 and Ag bilayer by the spin-torque ferromagnetic …

Proximity-induced magnetic order in a transferred topological insulator thin film on a magnetic insulator

X Che, K Murata, L Pan, QL He, G Yu, Q Shao, G Yin… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Breaking the time reversal symmetry (TRS) in a topological insulator (TI) by introducing a
magnetic order gives rise to exotic quantum phenomena. One of the promising routes to …

Quasi-one-dimensional quantum anomalous Hall systems as new platforms for scalable topological quantum computation

CZ Chen, YM Xie, J Liu, PA Lee, KT Law - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
Quantum anomalous Hall insulator/superconductor heterostructures emerged as a
competitive platform to realize topological superconductors with chiral Majorana edge states …

High quality PdTe2 thin films grown by molecular beam epitaxy

E Li, RZ Zhang, H Li, C Liu, G Li, JO Wang… - Chinese …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
PdTe 2, a member of layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), has aroused
significant research interest due to the coexistence of superconductivity and type-II Dirac …

Thermoelectric properties of topological insulators

YV Ivanov, AT Burkov… - physica status solidi …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Many efficient thermoelectric materials belong to the class of topological insulators.
Therefore, in recent years considerable efforts have been made to elucidate the influence of …

Superconducting pairing of topological surface states in bismuth selenide films on niobium

D Flötotto, Y Ota, Y Bai, C Zhang, K Okazaki… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
A topological insulator film coupled to a simple isotropic s-wave superconductor substrate
can foster helical pairing of the Dirac fermions associated with the topological surface states …