Microscopic origin of scalar potential induced topological transition in massive Dirac fermions and scalar Hall effect
arXiv:2204.06412 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.110.125117
Abstract
We present a systematic study of scalar potential induced topological transition in massive Dirac fermions. We show how a distribution of scalar potential can manipulate the signature of the gap or the mass, as well as the dispersion leading to a band inversion. This is mediated by the Klein tunnelling as well as inverse Klein tunnelling which makes it inherently different from the mechanism leading to topological Anderson insulator. In one dimension it can lead to the formation of edge localisation. In two dimensions this can give rise to the quantised Hall effect. Unlike conventional Hall effects, this is induced by a scalar interaction and intrinsic in nature. Therefore we call it a scalar Hall effect. This can facilitate a direct manipulation of topological invariants, e.g. the Chern number, as well as the manipulation of the edge states locally in a trivial insulator and thus opens new possibilities for tuning physical observables which originate from the nontrivial topology.
9 pages with 11 figures
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