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Strained HgTe: a textbook 3D topological insulator

Tristan Meunier
Philippe Ballet
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Xavier Baudry
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Laurent Lévy
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Résumé

Topological insulators can be seen as band-insulators with a conducting surface. The surface carriers are Dirac particles with an energy which increases linearly with momentum. This confers extraordinary transport properties characteristic of Dirac matter, a class of materials which electronic properties are ''graphene-like''. We show how HgTe, a material known to exhibit 2D spin-Hall effect in thin quantum wells,\cite{Konig2007} can be turned into a textbook example of Dirac matter by opening a strain-gap by exploiting the lattice mismatch on CdTe-based substrates. The evidence for Dirac matter found in transport shows up as a divergent Hall angle at low field when the chemical potential coincides with the Dirac point and from the sign of the quantum correction to the conductivity. The material can be engineered at will and is clean (good mobility) and there is little bulk contributions to the conductivity inside the band-gap.
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hal-00650046 , version 1 (09-12-2011)

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Clément Bouvier, Tristan Meunier, Philippe Ballet, Xavier Baudry, Roman B.G. Kramer, et al.. Strained HgTe: a textbook 3D topological insulator. 2011. ⟨hal-00650046⟩
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