Corner Junction as a Probe of Helical Edge States

Details Corner Junction as a Probe of Helical Edge States Corner Junction as a Probe of Helical Edge States

2008-08-13

arxiv.org/abs/0808.1723v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

4+ pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.076602

We propose and analyze inter-edge tunneling in a quantum spin Hall corner junction as a means to probe the helical nature of the edge states. We show that electron-electron interactions in the one-dimensional helical edge states result in Luttinger parameters for spin and charge that are intertwined, and thus rather different than those for a quantum wire with spin rotation invariance. Consequently, we find that the four-terminal conductance in a corner junction has a distinctive form that could be used as evidence for the helical nature of the edge states.

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