Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in disordered two-dimensional topological insulators

Details Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in disordered two-dimensional topological insulators Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in disordered two-dimensional topological insulators

2012-04-01

arxiv.org/abs/1204.0236v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

5 pages, 4 figures

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The disorder-driven metal-insulator transition in the quantum spin Hall systems is studied by scaling analysis of the Thouless conductance $g$. Below a critical disorder strength, the conductance is independent of the sample size $M$, an indication of critically delocalized electron states. The calculated beta function $\beta=d\ln g/d\ln M$ indicates that the metal-insulator transition is Kosterlitz-Thouless (KT) type, which is characterized by bounding and unbounding of vortex-antivortex pairs of the local currents. The KT like metal-insulator transition is a basic characteristic of the quantum spin Hall state, being independent of the time-reversal symmetry.

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