Charge transport and shot noise on the surface of a topological insulator with a magnetic modulation

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/21/4/047203

Abstract In this paper, we investigate the transport features and the Fano factor of Dirac electrons on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator with a magnetic modulation. We consider a hard wall bounding condition on the edge of the topological insulator, which implies that a surface state of the topological insulator is insulating. We find that a valley of conductivity at the Dirac point is associated with a Fano factor peak, and more interestingly, this topological metal changes from insulating to metallic by controlling the effective exchange field.

Keywords: topological insulator electronic transport ferrimagnetic

Received: 08 October 2011
Revised: 14 November 2011
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PACS:	72.80.Sk	(Insulators)
	73.40.-c	(Electronic transport in interface structures)
	75.50.Gg	(Ferrimagnetics)

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 10174024 and 10474025).

Corresponding Authors: Yuan Jian-Hui,jianhui831110@163.com
E-mail: jianhui831110@163.com

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Yuan Jian-Hui(袁建辉), Cheng Ze(成泽), Zhang Jian-Jun(张建军), Zeng Qi-Jun(曾奇军), and Zhang Jun-Pei(张俊佩) Charge transport and shot noise on the surface of a topological insulator with a magnetic modulation 2012 Chin. Phys. B 21 047203

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