High‐Frequency Nonlinear Transport and Photogalvanic Effects in 2D Topological Insulators

MV Durnev, SA Tarasenko - Annalen der Physik, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Excitation of a topological insulator by a high‐frequency electric field of a laser radiation
leads to a dc electric current in the helical edge channel whose direction and magnitude are …

Cyclotron-resonance-assisted photocurrents in surface states of a three-dimensional topological insulator based on a strained high-mobility HgTe film

KM Dantscher, DA Kozlov, P Olbrich, C Zoth… - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
We report on the observation of cyclotron-resonance-induced photocurrents, excited by
continuous wave terahertz radiation, in a three-dimensional topological insulator (TI) based …

Pressure-and temperature-driven phase transitions in HgTe quantum wells

SS Krishtopenko, I Yahniuk, DB But, VI Gavrilenko… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
We present theoretical investigations of pressure-and temperature-driven phase transitions
in HgTe quantum wells grown on a CdTe buffer. Using the eight-band k· p Hamiltonian we …

Symmetry, spin-texture, and tunable quantum geometry in a monolayer

L Shi, JCW Song - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
The spin orientation of electronic wave functions in crystals is an internal degree of freedom,
typically insensitive to electrical knobs. We argue from a general symmetry analysis and ak …

Photogalvanic probing of helical edge channels in two-dimensional HgTe topological insulators

KM Dantscher, DA Kozlov, MT Scherr, S Gebert… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
We report on the observation of a circular photogalvanic current excited by terahertz laser
radiation in helical edge channels of two-dimensional (2D) HgTe topological insulators (TIs) …

Magnetic field effects on edge and bulk states in topological insulators based on HgTe/CdHgTe quantum wells with strong natural interface inversion asymmetry

MV Durnev, SA Tarasenko - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
We present a theory of the electron structure and the Zeeman effect for the helical edge
states emerging in two-dimensional topological insulators based on HgTe/HgCdTe quantum …

Temperature-driven single-valley Dirac fermions in HgTe quantum wells

M Marcinkiewicz, S Ruffenach, SS Krishtopenko… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
We report on the temperature-dependent magnetospectroscopy of two HgTe/CdHgTe
quantum wells below and above the critical well thickness dc. Our results, obtained in …

Unconventional topological phase transition in two-dimensional systems with space-time inversion symmetry

J Ahn, BJ Yang - Physical Review Letters, 2017 - APS
We study a topological phase transition between a normal insulator and a quantum spin Hall
insulator in two-dimensional (2D) systems with time-reversal and twofold rotation …

Realistic picture of helical edge states in HgTe quantum wells

SS Krishtopenko, F Teppe - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
We propose a minimal effective two-dimensional Hamiltonian for HgTe/CdHgTe quantum
wells (QWs) describing the side maxima of the first valence subband. By using the …

Spin-orbit splitting of valence and conduction bands in HgTe quantum wells near the Dirac point

GM Minkov, AV Germanenko, OE Rut, AA Sherstobitov… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
Energy spectra both of the conduction and valence bands of the HgTe quantum wells with a
width close to the Dirac point were studied experimentally. Simultaneous analysis of the …