Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2011-08-15
Physica E 44, 860 (2012)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Review article to appear in Physica E
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.physe.2011.11.003
This article reviews recent theoretical and experimental work on transport due to the surface states of three-dimensional topological insulators. The theoretical focus is on longitudinal transport in the presence of an electric field, including Boltzmann transport, quantum corrections and weak localization, as well as longitudinal and Hall transport in the presence of both electric and magnetic fields and/or magnetizations. Special attention is paid to transport at finite doping, to the $\pi$-Berry phase, which leads to the absence of backscattering, Klein tunneling and half-quantized Hall response. Signatures of surface states in ordinary transport and magnetotransport are clearly identified. The review also covers transport experiments of the past years, reviewing the initial obscuring of surface transport by bulk transport, and the way transport due to the surface states has increasingly been identified experimentally. Current and likely future experimental challenges are given prominence and the current status of the field is assessed.
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