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The realization of the quantum spin Hall effect in HgTe quantum wells has led to the development of topological materials which, in combination with magnetism and superconductivity, are predicted to host chiral Majorana fermions. However,…

While the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect and antiferromagnetic order constitute two of the most promising phenomena for embedding basic spintronic concepts into future technologies, almost all of the QSH insulators known to date are…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-22 C. Niu , J. -P. Hanke , P. M. Buhl , G. Bihlmayer , D. Wortmann , S. Blügel , Y. Mokrousov

The original motivation of great interest to topological insulators was the hope to observe the quantum spin Hall effect. Therefore if a material is in the topological insulator state they frequently call it the quantum spin Hall state.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 E. B. Sonin

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators possess edge states that are topologically protected from backscattering. However, known QSH materials (e.g. HgTe/CdTe and InAs/GaSb quantum wells) exhibit very small energy gap and only work at low…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-07 Liujiang Zhou , Wujun Shi , Yan Sun , Bin Shao , Claudia Felser , Binghai Yan , Thomas Frauenheim

Topological insulators are a newly discovered phase of matter characterized by a gapped bulk surrounded by novel conducting boundary states. Since their theoretical discovery, these materials have encouraged intense efforts to study their…

We propose a multiterminal nanostructure for electrical probing of the quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE) in two-dimensional (2D) topological insulators. The device consists of a ferromagnetic (FM) island with precessing magnetization that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-28 Son-Hsien Chen , Branislav K. Nikolic , Ching-Ray Chang

Quantum spin Hall insulators (QSHIs) and excitonic insulators (EIs) are prototypical topological and correlated states of matter, respectively. The topological phase transition between the two has attracted much theoretical interest but…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Zhongdong Han , Yiyu Xia , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Kin Fai Mak , Jie Shan

In this review, We discussed the theoretical foundation and experimental discovery of different topological electronic states of material in condensed matter. At first, we briefly reviewed the conventional electronic states, which have been…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-30 Arnab Kumar Pariari

We have a comparative study of the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effects induced by non-magnetic and magnetic staggered potentials respectively and show that they have the same effect in driving the topological phase transition. The result…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Huaiming Guo , Shiping Feng , Shun-Qing Shen

The convergence of topology and correlations represents a highly coveted realm in the pursuit of novel quantum states of matter. Introducing electron correlations to a quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulator can lead to the emergence of a…

Motivated by a recent experiment (Sanchez-Yamagishi et.al, arXiv:1602.06815) reporting evidence of helical spin-polarized edge states in layer-biased twisted bilayer graphene under a magnetic flux, we study the possibility of stabilising a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-13 F. Finocchiaro , F. Guinea , P. San-Jose

The quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect is known to be unstable to perturbations violating time-reversal symmetry. We show that creating a narrow ferromagnetic (FM) region near the edge of a QSH sample can push one of the counterpropagating edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-16 Huichao Li , L. Sheng , R. Shen , L. B. Shao , Baigeng Wang , D. N. Sheng , D. Y. Xing

Quantum Spin Hall (QSH) insulators possess distinct helical in-gap states, enabling their edge states to act as one-dimensional conducting channels when backscattering is prohibited by time-reversal symmetry. However, it remains challenging…

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect is quite promising for applications in spintronics and quantum computations, but presently can only be achieved at ultralow temperature. Searching for large-gap QSH insulators is the key to increase the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 Xin Chen , Linyang Li , Mingwen Zhao

The search for exotic new topological states of matter in widely accessible materials, for which the manufacturing process is mastered, is one of the major challenges of the current topological physics. Here we predict higher order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Sergey S. Krishtopenko

The solutions for the helical edge states for an effective continuum model for the quantum spin Hall effect in HgTe/CdTe quantum wells are presented. For a sample of a large size, the solution gives the linear dispersion for the edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-22 Bin Zhou , Hai-Zhou Lu , Rui-Lin Chu , Shun-Qing Shen , Qian Niu

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators and Mott insulators are conventionally regarded as distinct insulating phases, arising from band topology and strong Coulomb interactions, respectively. Here, we report the observation of QSH edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Yifei Jin , Yaqi Ma , Aoqian Zhang , Nan Zhang , Ulf Lampe , Ivana Wong , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Tze Kin Cheung , Ning Wang , Kaifei Kang

On the surface of 2D Topological insulators occur 1D quantum spin Hall(QSH) edge modes with Dirac like dispersion. Unlike quantum Hall(QH) edge modes which occur at high magnetic fields in 2DEGs, the occurrence of QSH edge modes is because…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-15 Arjun Mani , Colin Benjamin

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect is promising for achieving dissipationless transport devices due to the robust gapless states inside insulating bulk gap. Here, by using first-principles calculations, we discover group-IV chalcogenide Si2Te2…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-18 Run-wu Zhang , Wei-xiao Ji , Chang-wen Zhang , Ping Li , Pei-ji Wang

The quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect has attracted extensive research interest because of the potential applications in spintronics and quantum computing, which is attributable to two conducting edge channels with opposite spin polarization…