@article{ISI:000274336600036, abstract = {We study the transport properties of the Dirac fermions with a Fermi velocity v(F) on the surface of a topological insulator across a ferromagnetic strip providing an exchange field J over a region of width d. We show that the conductance of such a junction, in the clean limit and at low temperature, changes from oscillatory to a monotonically decreasing function of d beyond a critical J. This leads to the possible realization of a magnetic switch using these junctions. We also study the conductance of these Dirac fermions across a potential barrier of width d and potential V-0 in the presence of such a ferromagnetic strip and show that beyond a critical J, the criteria of conductance maxima changes from chi = eV(0)d/(h) over barv(F) = n pi to chi = (n + 1/2)pi for integer n. We point out that these novel phenomena have no analogs in graphene and suggest experiments which can probe them.}, article-number = {046403}, author = {Mondal, S. and Sen, D. and Sengupta, K. and Shankar, R.}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.046403}, eissn = {1079-7114}, issn = {0031-9007}, journal = {PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS}, month = {JAN 29}, number = {4}, times-cited = {103}, title = {Tuning the Conductance of Dirac Fermions on the Surface of a Topological Insulator}, unique-id = {ISI:000274336600036}, volume = {104}, year = {2010} }