Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1591435 | Solid State Communications | 2015 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
In this communication, we investigate a toy model of three-dimensional topological insulator surface, coupled homogeneously to a fictitious pseudospin-12 particle. We show that this toy model captures the interesting features of topological insulator surface states, which include topological quantum phase transition and quantum spin Hall effect. We further incorporate an out-of-plane magnetic field and obtain the Landau levels.
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Authors
S.A. Owerre, J. Nsofini,