1207.2731 (Flavio S. Nogueira et al.)

Fluctuation-induced magnetization dynamics and criticality at the
interface of a topological insulator with a magnetically ordered layer    [PDF]

Flavio S. Nogueira, Ilya Eremin

We consider a theory for a two-dimensional interacting conduction electron system with strong spin-orbit coupling on the interface between a topological insulator and the magnetic (ferromagnetic or antiferromagnetic) layer. For the ferromagnetic case we derive the Landau-Lifshitz equation, which features a contribution proportional to a fluctuation-induced electric field obtained by computing the topological (Chern-Simons) contribution from the vacuum polarization. We also show that fermionic quantum fluctuations reduce the critical temperature $\tilde T_c$ at the interface relative to the critical temperature $T_c$ of the bulk, so that in the interval $\tilde T_c\leq TView original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.2731