Broken Lorentz symmetry and violation of the Wiedemann-Franz law in topological insulators
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| author | Liu, Feng Dumitriu-I., A. Daria Principi, Alessandro |
| author_facet | Liu, Feng Dumitriu-I., A. Daria Principi, Alessandro |
| contents | We study a two-dimensional topological insulator in the presence of a static non-uniform gravitational field, which mimics the variations in the temperature distribution. We derive an effective boundary free energy functional for the gravitational field and show that, in contrast to the case of massive Dirac fermions, the addition of a Newtonian mass term significantly modifies the quantum anomalous behavior of the system. A non-zero bulk thermal current appears, which violates the Wiedemann-Franz law. The systematic approach we develop to calculate the contribution of edge states to thermal Hall conductivity and energy magnetization can easily be extended to other models. |
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| spellingShingle | Broken Lorentz symmetry and violation of the Wiedemann-Franz law in topological insulators Liu, Feng Dumitriu-I., A. Daria Principi, Alessandro Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics We study a two-dimensional topological insulator in the presence of a static non-uniform gravitational field, which mimics the variations in the temperature distribution. We derive an effective boundary free energy functional for the gravitational field and show that, in contrast to the case of massive Dirac fermions, the addition of a Newtonian mass term significantly modifies the quantum anomalous behavior of the system. A non-zero bulk thermal current appears, which violates the Wiedemann-Franz law. The systematic approach we develop to calculate the contribution of edge states to thermal Hall conductivity and energy magnetization can easily be extended to other models. |
| title | Broken Lorentz symmetry and violation of the Wiedemann-Franz law in topological insulators |
| topic | Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.13649 |