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Driven by various physical origins, the interesting reentrant phenomena in quantum Hall effect (QHE), quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) and non-Hermitian systems have been discussed recently. Here, we present that the reentrant phenomena…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Xiaoyu Cheng , Xiaohong Zheng , Jun Chen , Liantuan Xiao , Suotang Jia , Lei Zhang

With low-buckled structure for each layer in graphene bilayer system, there breaks inversion symmetry (P-symmetry) for one stacking when both A and B sublattices in top layer are aligned with those in bottom layer. In consideration of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-21 Yu-Hao Shen , Jun-Ding Zheng , Wen-Yi Tong , Zhi-Qiang Bao , Xian-Gang Wan , Chun-Gang Duan

In search for a new generation of spintronics hardware, material candidates for room temperature quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE) have become a contemporary focus of investigation. Inspired by the original proposal for QSHE in graphene,…

Silicene has shown great application potential as a versatile material for nanoelectronics, particularly promising as building block for spintronic applications. Unfortunately, despite its intriguing properties, such as relatively large…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-18 Ke Yang , Wei-Qing Huang , Wangyu Hu , Gui-Fang Huang , Shuangchun Wen

Quantum materials combining magnetism and topological fermions are a key platform for low-energy electronics, spintronics, and quantum phases that break time-reversal symmetry (TRS), such as the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE).…

We numerically investigate the effects of disorder on the quantum Hall effect (QHE) and the quantum phase transitions in silicene based on a lattice model. It is shown that for a clean sample, silicene exhibits an unconventional QHE near…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-15 Y. L. Liu , G. X. Luo , N. Xu , H. Y. Tian , C. D. Ren

As one of paradigmatic phenomena in condensed matter physics, the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) in stoichiometric Chern insulators has drawn great interest for years. By using model Hamiltonian analysis and first-principle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Hongyi Sun , Bowen Xia , Zhongjia Chen , Yingjie Zhang , Pengfei Liu , Qiushi Yao , Hong Tang , Yujun Zhao , Hu Xu , Qihang Liu

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) materials promise revolutionary device applications based on dissipationless propagation of spin currents. They are two-dimensional (2D) representatives of the family of topological insulators, which exhibit…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-09-27 F. Reis , G. Li , L. Dudy , M. Bauernfeind , S. Glass , W. Hanke , R. Thomale , J. Schäfer , R. Claessen

The field of topological insulators (TI) was sparked by the prediction of the quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE) in time reversal invariant systems, such as spin-orbit coupled monolayer graphene. Ever since, a variety of monolayer crystals…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-19 Sanfeng Wu , Valla Fatemi , Quinn D. Gibson , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Robert J. Cava , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

The search of new topological insulators that demonstrate the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) is a cutting-edge research topic in condensed matter physics and materials science. So far, the QAHE has been observed only in Cr-doped…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-13 Jun Hu , Zhenyue Zhu , Ruqian Wu

A promising approach to attain long-distance coherent spin propagation is accessing topological spin-polarized edge states in graphene. Achieving this without external magnetic fields necessitates engineering graphene band structure,…

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) state of matter has a charge excitation bulk bandgap and a pair of gapless spin-filtered edge-states, which can support backscattering-free transport. Bilayer phosphorene possesses a large tunable bandgap and high…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-02-09 Tian Zhang , Jia-He Lin , Yan-Mei Yu , Xiang-Rong Chen , Wu-Ming Liu

From the Dirac equation of an electron in an anisotropic conduction band, the anisotropy of its motion dramatically affects its interaction with applied electric and magnetic fields. The quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE) is observable in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-06-26 Aiying Zhao , Qiang Gu , Richard A. Klemm

Altermagnetic (AM) order, a recently discovered magnetic state, has attracted intense research interest for its potential applications in spintronic and quantum technologies. Here, we theoretically investigate the AM state in the Lieb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Qianjun Wang , Ruqian Wu , Jun Hu

By using first-principles calculation, we have found that a family of 2D transition metal dichalcogenide haeckelites with square-octagonal lattice $MX_2$-4-8 ($M$=Mo, W and $X$=S, Se and Te) can host quantum spin hall effect. The phonon…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-23 S. M. Nie , Zhida Song , Hongming Weng , Zhong Fang

Kane and Mele predicted that in presence of spin-orbit interaction graphene realizes the quantum spin Hall state. However, exceptionally weak intrinsic spin-orbit splitting in graphene ($\approx 10^{-5}$ eV) inhibits experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-18 Gabriel Autès , Oleg V. Yazyev

Recently we wrote a paper on the theory of the quantum spin Hall effect(QSHE) in two dimensional(2D) topological insulators(TIs)1 which have been considered as do not add much new insight to the exhaustively studied topic of TI within a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-05 Yi-Dong Wu

Recently the Quantum Spin Hall effect (QSH) was theoretically predicted and experimentally realized in a quantum wells based on binary semiconductor HgTe[1-3]. QSH state and topological insulators are the new states of quantum matter…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-08-08 S. Chadov , X. -L. Qi , J Kübler , G. H. Fecher , C. Felser , S. -C. Zhang

By means of first-principles calculations, we predict a new 2D QSH insulator in the porous allotrope of Bismuth monolayer, bismuthylene, its dynamics stability being confirmed by phonon spectrum and molecular dynamics simulations. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-15 Run-wu Zhang , Chang-wen Zhang , Wei-xiao Ji , Ping Li , Pei-ji Wang

Based on first-principles calculations, we have found a family of 2D transition-metal (TM) chalcogenides MX5 (M = Zr, Hf and X = S, Se and Te) can host quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect. The molecular dynamics simulation indicate that they are…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-15 Xing Wang , Wenhui Wan , Yanfeng Ge , Kai-Cheng Zhang , Yong Liu