2025/05/30 by García-Olmos, Marta, Baba, Yuriko, López, Alexander +2 · 1 citation
#FOS: Physical sciences #Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) #Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2505.24745
We investigate the bulk-boundary correspondence in two-dimensional type-I semi-Dirac materials with band inversion and Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Employing a dimensional reduction framework, we identify the Zak phase along the quadratically dispersing direction as a topological invariant that captures the presence of edge states. In the non-trivial topological regime, systems with finite width exhibit energy-dependent edge states that are topologically protected only at specific momenta. At kx equal to zero, symmetry-protected edge states emerge, analogous to the Rashba-free case. At finite kx, the interplay of spin-orbit coupling and band structure gives rise to spin-dependent edge states, localized on specific edges based on its spin and particle-hole character. We compute spin-resolved conductance through these edge channels and observe robust, tunable oscillations attributable to spin precession induced by the effective Rashba magnetic field. These results reveal how spin-orbit interactions enrich the edge physics of semi-Dirac systems and provide a platform for spintronic control in anisotropic topological materials.