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Axion electrodynamics and the quantized topological magnetoelectric effect in topological insulators

日程 : 2018年10月16日(火) 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm 場所 : 物性研究所本館6階 第一会議室 (A636) 講師 : Prof. N. Peter Armitage 所属 : The Johns Hopkins University, USA 世話人 : 松永 隆佑 (63375)
e-mail: matsunaga@issp.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Topological insulators have been proposed to be best characterized as bulk magnetoelectric materials that show response functions quantized in terms of fundamental physical constants. Here we lower the chemical potential of three-dimensional (3D) Bi2Se3 films to 30 meV above the Dirac point, and probe their low-energy electrodynamic response in the presence of magnetic fields with high-precision time- domain terahertz polarimetry. For fields higher than 5 T, we observed quantized Faraday and Kerr rotations, whereas the DC transport is still semi-classical. A non-trivial Berry phase offset to these values gives evidence for axion electrodynamics and the topological magnetoelectric effect. The time structure used in these measurements allows a direct measure of the fine structure constant based on a topological invariant of a solid-state system. I’ll also discuss our most recent measurements on topological insulator single crystals that give evidence for a half quantized Hall effect on the TI surfaces.

Ref. L. Wu et al., Science 354, 1124 (2016)


(公開日: 2018年09月26日)