{
  "id": "1303.1021",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2013-03-05T13:02:28.000Z",
  "updated": "2013-03-05T13:02:28.000Z",
  "title": "Interference and transport properties of conductions electrons on the surface of a topological insulator",
  "authors": [
    "D. Schmeltzer"
  ],
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall"
  ],
  "abstract": "The surface conductivity for conduction electrons with a fixed chirality in a topological insulator with impurities scattering is considered. The surface excitations are described by the Weyl Hamiltonian. For a finite chemical potential one projects out the hole band and one obtains a single electronic band with a fixed chirality. One obtains a model of spinless electrons which experience a half vortex when they return to the origin. As a result the conductivity is equivalent to a spinless problem with correlated noise which gives rise to anti-localization. We compute conductivity as a function of frequency and compare our results with the $Raman$ shift measurement for $Bi_{2}Se_{3}$.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2013-03-05T13:02:28.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "topological insulator",
      "conductions electrons",
      "transport properties",
      "interference",
      "fixed chirality"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2013arXiv1303.1021S"
    }
  }
}