{
  "id": "1207.1294",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2012-07-05T16:10:27.000Z",
  "updated": "2012-12-12T17:37:25.000Z",
  "title": "Probing the Band Topology of Mercury Telluride through Weak Localization and Antilocalization",
  "authors": [
    "Viktor Krueckl",
    "Klaus Richter"
  ],
  "comment": "7 pages, 6 figures, added references",
  "journal": "Semicond. Sci. Technol. 27, 124006 (2012)",
  "doi": "10.1088/0268-1242/27/12/124006",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall"
  ],
  "abstract": "We analyze the effect of weak localization (WL) and weak antilocalization (WAL) in the electronic transport through HgTe/CdTe quantum wells. We show that for increasing Fermi energy the magnetoconductance of a diffusive system with inverted band ordering features a transition from WL to WAL and back, if spin-orbit interactions from bulk and structure inversion asymmetry can be neglected. This, and an additional splitting in the magnetoconductance profile, is a signature of the Berry phase arising for inverted band ordering and not present in heterostructures with conventional ordering. In presence of spin-orbit interaction both band topologies exhibit WAL, which is distinctly energy dependent solely for quantum wells with inverted band ordering. This can be explained by an energy-dependent decomposition of the Hamiltonian into two blocks.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2012-12-12T17:37:25.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "weak localization",
      "band topology",
      "mercury telluride",
      "antilocalization",
      "spin-orbit interaction"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "journal": "Semiconductor Science Technology",
      "year": 2012,
      "month": "Dec",
      "volume": 27,
      "number": 12,
      "pages": 124006
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 7,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2012SeScT..27l4006K"
    }
  }
}