Abstract
We present low-temperature transport measurements of a gate-tunable thin-film topological insulator system that features high mobility and low carrier density. Upon gate tuning to a regime around the charge neutrality point, we infer an absence of strong localization even at conductivities well below e2/h, where two-dimensional electron systems should conventionally scale to an insulating state. Oddly, in this regime the localization coherence peak lacks conventional temperature broadening, though its tails do change dramatically with temperature. Using a model with electron-impurity scattering, we extract values for the disorder potential and the hybridization of the top and bottom surface states.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 201101 |
Journal | Physical Review B |
Volume | 99 |
Issue number | 20 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 2 2019 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Condensed Matter Physics