Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: To understand the seemingly absent temperature dependence in the conductance of two-dimensional topological insulator edge states, we perform a numerical study which identifies the quantitative influence of the combined effect of dephasing and elastic scattering in charge puddles close to the edges. We show that this mechanism may be responsible for the experimental signatures in HgTe/CdTe quantum wells if the puddles in the samples are large and weakly coupled to the sample edges. We propose experiments on artificial puddles which allow one to verify this hypothesis and to extract the real dephasing time scale using our predictions. In addition, we present a method to include the effect of dephasing in wave-packet-time-evolution algorithms.
Source: Physical Review B
Authors: Sven Essert, Viktor Krueckl, Klaus Richter
Institution: University of Regensburg
Language: English
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Award: G4117425174
OpenAlex ID: W820989032