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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 109, Issue 24, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.246803
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- European Marie Curie ITN NanoCTM
- Swiss National Center of Competence in Research on Quantum Science and Technology
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Localization of the helical edge states in quantum spin Hall insulators requires breaking time-reversal invariance. In experiments, this is naturally implemented by applying a weak magnetic field B. We propose a model based on scattering theory that describes the localization of helical edge states due to coupling to random magnetic fluxes. We find that the localization length is proportional to B-2 when B is small and saturates to a constant when B is sufficiently large. We estimate especially the localization length for the HgTe/CdTe quantum wells with known experimental parameters. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.246803
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