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arxiv: 1303.1021 · v1 · pith:DHL4RVE3new · submitted 2013-03-05 · ❄️ cond-mat.mes-hall

Interference and transport properties of conductions electrons on the surface of a topological insulator

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keywords conductivityelectronssurfacebandchiralityfixedinsulatorobtains
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The surface conductivity for conduction electrons with a fixed chirality in a topological insulator with impurities scattering is considered. The surface excitations are described by the Weyl Hamiltonian. For a finite chemical potential one projects out the hole band and one obtains a single electronic band with a fixed chirality. One obtains a model of spinless electrons which experience a half vortex when they return to the origin. As a result the conductivity is equivalent to a spinless problem with correlated noise which gives rise to anti-localization. We compute conductivity as a function of frequency and compare our results with the $Raman$ shift measurement for $Bi_{2}Se_{3}$.

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