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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 78, Issue 16, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.165313
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We describe how the three-dimensional (3D) quantum spin Hall phase arises from the insulator phase by changing an external parameter. In 3D systems without inversion symmetry, a gapless phase should appear between the two phases with a bulk gap. The gapless points are monopoles and antimonopoles (in k space), whose topological nature is the source of this gapless phase. In general, when the external parameter is changed from the ordinary insulator phase, two monopole-antimonopole pairs are created and the system becomes gapless. The gap-closing points (monopoles and antimonopoles) then move in the k space as the parameter is changed further. They eventually annihilate in pairs, with changing partners from the pair creations, and the system opens a gap again entering into the quantum spin Hall phase.
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