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Fractional Topological Insulators in Three Dimensions
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Topological insulators can be generally defined by a topological field theory with an axion angle θ of 0 or π. In this work, we introduce the concept of fractional topological insulator defined by a fractional axion angle and show that it can be consistent with time reversal T invariance if ground state degeneracies are present. The fractional axion angle can be measured experimentally by the quantized fractional bulk magnetoelectric polarization P₃, and a "halved" fractional quantum Hall effect on the surface with Hall conductance of the form σH=p/q e²/2h with p, q odd. In the simplest of these states the electron behaves as a bound state of three fractionally charged "quarks" coupled to a deconfined non-Abelian SU(3) "color" gauge field, where the fractional charge of the quarks changes the quantization condition of P₃ and allows fractional values consistent with T invariance.
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- Authors
- Maciejko, J., Qi, X.-L., Karch, A., & Zhang, S.-C.
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 2010-12-10
- Volume
- 105
- Issue
- 24
- Pages
- 246809-246809
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
- OpenAlex
- W2008267560
- Cited by
- 176
- References
- 11
- FWCI
- 11.03
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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