Conductivity of a generic helical liquid

Abstract

A quantum spin Hall insulator is a two-dimensional state of matter consisting of an insulating bulk and one-dimensional helical edge states. While these edge states are topologically protected against elastic backscattering in the presence of disorder, interaction-induced inelastic terms may yield a finite conductivity. By using a kinetic equation approach, we find the backscattering rate ${\tau }^{-1}$ and the semiclassical conductivity in the regimes of high ($\omega \gg {\tau }^{-1}$) and low ($\omega \ll {\tau }^{-1}$) frequency. By comparing the two limits, we find that the parametric dependence of conductivity is described by the Drude formula for the case of a disordered edge. On the other hand, in the clean case where the resistance originates from umklapp interactions, the conductivity takes a non-Drude form with a parametric suppression of scattering in the dc limit as compared to the ac case. This behavior is due to the peculiarity of umklapp scattering processes involving necessarily the state at the "Dirac point". In order to take into account Luttinger liquid effects, we complement the kinetic equation analysis by treating interactions exactly in bosonization and calculating conductivity using the Kubo formula. In this way, we obtain the frequency and temperature dependence of conductivity over a wide range of parameters. We find the temperature and frequency dependence of the transport scattering time in a disordered system as $\tau \sim [\max (\omega ,T){]}^{-2K-2}$, for $K>2/3$ and $\tau \sim [\max (\omega ,T){]}^{-8K+2}$ for $K<2/3$.

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