Dual Dirac Liquid on the Surface of the Electron Topological Insulator

We discuss a non-Fermi liquid gapless metallic surface state of the topological band insulator. It has an odd number of gapless Dirac fermions coupled to a noncompact U(1) gauge field. This can be viewed as a vortex dual to the conventional Dirac fermion surface state. This surface duality is a refl...

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Main Authors: Wang, Chong (Contributor), Todadri, Senthil (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society, 2015-11-24T13:52:46Z.
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