Two interacting helical edge modes in quantum spin Hall systems.
We study theoretically two interacting one-dimensional helical modes at the edges of the quantum spin Hall systems. A new type of interedge correlated liquid without a spin gap is found when the intraedge repulsion is stronger than the interedge repulsion. This liquid shows a diverging density wave and superconductivity correlations much stronger than those of the spinfull electrons. Possible experimental observations are also discussed.
Tanaka
Yukio
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Department of Applied Physics, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8603, Japan.
Nagaosa
Naoto
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