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Chiral Magnetism and Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in a Low-energy Kondo Model on the Triangular Lattice

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2026-04-21 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We study an effective low-energy Kondo model on the triangular lattice in which itinerant electrons occupy a valence pocket at Γ\Gamma and three conduction pockets at the MM points of the Brillouin zone. This construction has a Fermi-surface nesting structure that favors triple-QQ magnetic order while only assuming the low-energy band-structure. Treating the local moments as classical spins on a four-sublattice magnetic unit cell, we find extended regions of non-coplanar order, including tetrahedral and related canted tetrahedral states, in addition to ferromagnetic and coplanar phases. The chiral phases remain stable over a broad range of inter-pocket Kondo couplings and persist in the presence of an external magnetic field. For certain chiral orders, the electronic bands can become gapped and host a quantum anomalous Hall state with σxy=4e2/h\sigma_{xy}=4\,e^2/h. These results show that chiral magnetism and a quantized anomalous Hall effect on the triangular lattice do not rely on a specific tight-binding band structure, but can arise more generally from low-energy nested pockets at Γ\Gamma and MM.

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@article{arxiv.2604.17641,
  title  = {Chiral Magnetism and Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in a Low-energy Kondo Model on the Triangular Lattice},
  author = {Kai Vylet and Xingkai Huang and Leon Balents},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.17641},
  year   = {2026}
}

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11 pages, 7 figures