Surface polarization and edge charges
2015
The term "surface polarization" is introduced to describe the in-plane polarization existing at the surface of an insulating crystal when the in-plane surface inversion symmetry is broken. Here, the surface polarization is formulated in terms of a Berry phase, with the hybrid Wannier representation providing a natural basis for study of this effect. Tight binding models are used to demonstrate how the surface polarization reveals itself via the accumulation of charges at the corners/edges for a two dimensional rectangular lattice and for GaAs.
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