TY - JOUR
T1 - Quantum Hall effect induced by chiral Landau levels in topological semimetal films
AU - Nguyen, D. H.Minh
AU - Kobayashi, Koji
AU - Wichmann, Jan Erik R.
AU - Nomura, Kentaro
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI (Grants No. JP19K14607 and No. JP20H01830) and by CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency (Grant No. JPMJCR18T2).
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© 2021 American Physical Society.
PY - 2021/7/15
Y1 - 2021/7/15
N2 - Motivated by recent transport experiments, we theoretically study the quantum Hall effect in topological semimetal films. Owing to the confinement effect, the bulk subbands originating from the chiral Landau levels establish energy gaps that have quantized Hall conductance and can be observed in relatively thick films. We find that the quantum Hall state is strongly anisotropic for different confinement directions not only due to the presence of the surface states but also because of the bulk chiral Landau levels. As a result, we re-examine the quantum Hall effect from the surface Fermi arcs and chiral modes in Weyl semimetals and give a more general view into this problem. Also, we find that when a topological Dirac semimetal is confined in its rotational symmetry axis, it hosts both quantum Hall and quantum spin Hall states, in which the helical edge states are protected by the conservation of the spin-z component.
AB - Motivated by recent transport experiments, we theoretically study the quantum Hall effect in topological semimetal films. Owing to the confinement effect, the bulk subbands originating from the chiral Landau levels establish energy gaps that have quantized Hall conductance and can be observed in relatively thick films. We find that the quantum Hall state is strongly anisotropic for different confinement directions not only due to the presence of the surface states but also because of the bulk chiral Landau levels. As a result, we re-examine the quantum Hall effect from the surface Fermi arcs and chiral modes in Weyl semimetals and give a more general view into this problem. Also, we find that when a topological Dirac semimetal is confined in its rotational symmetry axis, it hosts both quantum Hall and quantum spin Hall states, in which the helical edge states are protected by the conservation of the spin-z component.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevB.104.045302
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevB.104.045302
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85109841688
VL - 104
JO - Physical Review B
JF - Physical Review B
SN - 2469-9950
IS - 4
M1 - 045302
ER -