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Electron wave scattering off disorders provides a key to many fascinating transport phenomena recently observed in topological insulators. Here, we present a nonperturbative diagrammatic theory of this subject. Surprisingly, quantum superdiffusion is found on the surface of three-dimensional strong topological insulators regardless of disorder strength (but not vanishing), where the diffusion coefficient grows in time logarithmically. Such a transport anomaly serves as a main characteristic of the novel quantum metal, the so-called %26quot;topological metal,%26quot; and indicates that it is a hybridization of Ohmic and perfect metals. It washes out the Anderson transition occurring in two-dimensional normal metals with disordered spin-orbit coupling, and leads to a logarithmic divergence of the conductance in the sample size instead. Therefore, the present work provides an analytical proof of the transport anomaly discovered numerically [Nomura, Koshino, and Ryu, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 146806 (2007); Bardarson et al., ibid. 99, 106801 (2007)].
- 出版日期2012-9-20
- 单位清华大学
