This book serves as a brief introduction to topological insulator physics and device
applications. Particular attention is paid to the indirect exchange interaction mediated by
near surface Dirac fermions and the spin texture this interaction favors. Along with useful
information on semiconductor material systems the book provides a theoretical background for
most common concepts of TI physics. Readers will benefit from up to date information and
methods needed to start working in TI physics theory experiment and device
applications.Discusses inter-spin interaction via massless and massive Dirac excitations
Includes coverage of near-surface spin texture of the magnetic atoms as related to their mutual
positions as well to their positions with respect to top and bottom surfaces in thin TI film
Describes non-RKKY oscillating inter-spin interaction as a signature of the topological state
Explains the origin of the giant Rashba interaction at quantum phase transition in
TI-conventional semiconductors.
