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The surface states of topological insulators - Dirac fermion in curved two dimensional spaces

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arxiv 0908.2490 v2 pith:ATP44HB3 submitted 2009-08-18 cond-mat.mes-hall cond-mat.str-el

The surface states of topological insulators - Dirac fermion in curved two dimensional spaces

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The surface of a topological insulator is a closed two dimensional manifold. The surface states are described by the Dirac Hamiltonian in curved two dimensional spaces. For a slab-like sample with a magnetic field perpendicular to its top and bottom surfaces, there are chiral states delocalized on the four side faces. These "chiral sheets" carry both charge and spin currents. In strong magnetic fields the quantized charge Hall effect ($\s_{xy}=(2n+1)e^2/h$) will coexist with spin Hall effect.

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