title: Artificial Gauge Field and Topological Phase in a Conventional Two-dimensional Electron Gas with Antidot Lattices.
abstract: Based on the Born-Oppemheimer approximation, we divide the total electron Hamiltonian in a spin-orbit coupled system into the slow orbital motion and the fast interband transition processes. We find that the fast motion induces a gauge field on the slow orbital motion, perpendicular to the electron momentum, inducing a topological phase. From this general designing principle, we present a theory for generating artificial gauge field and topological phase in a conventional two-dimensional electron gas embedded in parabolically graded GaAs/InxGa1-xAs/GaAs quantum wells with antidot lattices. By tuning the etching depth and period of the antidot lattices, the band folding caused by the antidot potential leads to the formation of minibands and band inversions between neighboring subbands. The intersubband spin-orbit interaction opens considerably large nontrivial minigaps and leads to many pairs of helical edge states in these gaps.
authors.affiliation: SKLSM, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 912, Beijing 100083, China.
authors.forename: Likun
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.affiliation: SKLSM, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 912, Beijing 100083, China.
authors.forename: Wenkai
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Lou
authors.affiliation: SKLSM, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 912, Beijing 100083, China.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.affiliation: SKLSM, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 912, Beijing 100083, China.
authors.forename: Y L
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Zou
authors.affiliation: Beijing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing 100094, China.
authors.forename: Wen
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: SKLSM, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 912, Beijing 100083, China.
authors.forename: Kai
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Chang