Collective excitations on a surface of topological insulator

We study collective excitations in a helical electron liquid on a surface of three-dimensional topological insulator. Electron in helical liquid obeys Dirac-like equation for massless particles and direction of its spin is strictly determined by its momentum. Due to this spin-momentum locking, colle...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Efimkin, Dmitry K, Lozovik, Yurii E, Sokolik, Alexey A
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Springer 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3341197/