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arXiv:2411.13649 (cond-mat)
[Submitted on 20 Nov 2024]

Title:Edge thermal current of the topological insulator

Authors:Feng Liu, A. Daria Dumitriu-I.and Alessandro Principi
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Abstract:We develop a systematic approach to calculate the contribution of edge states to the thermal Hall conductivity and energy magnetization. A two-dimensional topological insulator in equilibrium at a finite temperature is analyzed in the presence of a static gravitational field, which mimics the variations in the temperature distribution. From this model, an effective boundary free energy functional for the gravitational field is derived. Our analysis reveals that, unlike in the case of massive Dirac fermions, the addition of the Newtonian mass term in the topological insulator model significantly modifies the quantum anomalous behavior of the boundary states, leading to a non-zero bulk thermal current. This additional contribution violates the Wiedemann-Franz law.
Comments: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2404.16937
Subjects: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
Cite as: arXiv:2411.13649 [cond-mat.mes-hall]
  (or arXiv:2411.13649v1 [cond-mat.mes-hall] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2411.13649

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From: Feng Liu [view email]
[v1] Wed, 20 Nov 2024 19:00:07 UTC (56 KB)
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