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Chiral Spin Mode on the Surface of a Topological Insulator

Overview of attention for article published in Physical Review Letters, September 2017
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Title
Chiral Spin Mode on the Surface of a Topological Insulator
Published in
Physical Review Letters, September 2017
DOI 10.1103/physrevlett.119.136802
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H-H Kung, S Maiti, X Wang, S-W Cheong, D L Maslov, G Blumberg

Abstract

Using polarization-resolved resonant Raman spectroscopy, we explore collective spin excitations of the chiral surface states in a three dimensional topological insulator, Bi_{2}Se_{3}. We observe a sharp peak at 150 meV in the pseudovector A_{2} symmetry channel of the Raman spectra. By comparing the data with calculations, we identify this peak as the transverse collective spin mode of surface Dirac fermions. This mode, unlike a Dirac plasmon or a surface plasmon in the charge sector of excitations, is analogous to a spin wave in a partially polarized Fermi liquid, with spin-orbit coupling playing the role of an effective magnetic field.

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Unknown 61 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 30%
Researcher 8 13%
Professor 6 10%
Professor > Associate Professor 6 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 8%
Other 8 13%
Unknown 10 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Physics and Astronomy 45 74%
Engineering 2 3%
Materials Science 2 3%
Social Sciences 1 2%
Chemistry 1 2%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 10 16%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 112. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 March 2018.
All research outputs
#316,648
of 22,981,247 outputs
Outputs from Physical Review Letters
#699
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Outputs of similar age
#7,500
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Outputs of similar age from Physical Review Letters
#18
of 580 outputs
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