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Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect provides dissipationless chiral channels for spin transport, expected as an outstanding candidate in future low-power quantum computation. The spin-splitting band structure is vital for obtaining QAH…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-23 Wenxuan Zhu , Hua Bai , Lei Han , Feng Pan , Cheng Song

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators with high Chern number host multiple dissipationless chiral edge channels, which are of fundamental interest and promising for applications in spintronics and quantum computing. However, only a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Xiaolin Wan , Zhen Ning , Dong-Hui Xu , Baobing Zheng , Rui Wang

In a two-dimensional electron gas, the quantized Hall conductance can be induced by a strong magnetic field, known as the quantum Hall effect, and it can also result from the strong exchange coupling of magnetic ions, dubbed as the "quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Xin Liu , Hsiu-Chuan Hsu , Chao-Xing Liu

A quantum phase transition arises from competition between different ground states and is typically accessed by varying a single physical parameter near absolute zero temperature. The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect with high Chern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Ling-Jie Zhou , Deyi Zhuo , Ruobing Mei , Yi-Fan Zhao , Kaijie Yang , Ruoxi Zhang , Zijie Yan , Han Tay , Moses H. W. Chan , Chao-Xing Liu , Cui-Zu Chang

The plateau-to-plateau transition in quantum Hall effect under high magnetic fields is a celebrated quantum phase transition between two topological states through either sweeping the magnetic field or tuning the carrier density. The recent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Yi-Fan Zhao , Ruoxi Zhang , Ling-Jie Zhou , Ruobing Mei , Zi-Jie Yan , Moses H. W. Chan , Chao-Xing Liu , Cui-Zu Chang

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect is characterized by a dissipationless chiral edge state with a quantized Hall resistance at zero magnetic field. Manipulating the QAH state is of great importance in both the understanding of…

Recent years have witnessed tremendous success in the discovery of topological states of matter. Particularly, sophisticated theoretical methods in time-reversal-invariant topological phases have been developed, leading to the comprehensive…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-26 Jinbo Pan , Jiabin Yu , Yan-Fang Zhang , Shixuan Du , Anderson Janotti , Chao-Xing Liu , Qimin Yan

We study the critical properties of the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) plateau transition in magnetic topological insulators. We introduce a microscopic model for the plateau transition in QAH effect at the coercive field and then map it to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-11 Jing Wang , Biao Lian , Shou-Cheng Zhang

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect is a topologically nontrivial phase, characterized by a non-zero Chern number defined in the bulk and chiral edge states in the boundary. Using first-principles calculations, we demonstrate the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-06-26 Xiangru Kong , Linyang Li , Ortwin Leenaerts , Weiyang Wang , Xiong-Jun Liu , François M. Peeters

The plateau phase transition in quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators corresponds to a quantum state wherein a single magnetic domain gives way to multiple magnetic domains and then re-converges back to a single magnetic domain. The layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Deyi Zhuo , Ling-Jie Zhou , Yi-Fan Zhao , Ruoxi Zhang , Zi-Jie Yan , Annie G. Wang , Moses H. W. Chan , Chao-Xing Liu , Chui-Zhen Chen , Cui-Zu Chang

We study the critical properties of the in-plane magnetic field-induced quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) plateau transition in axion insulators. Take even septuple layer film MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ as a concrete example, we find the mirror symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-15 Jinlong Zhang , Zhaochen Liu , Jing Wang

The integer quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect is a lattice analog of the quantum Hall effect at zero magnetic field. This striking transport phenomenon occurs in electronic systems with topologically nontrivial bands and spontaneous…

The quantum Hall effect emerges when two-dimensional samples are subjected to strong magnetic fields at low temperatures: Topologically protected edge states cause a quantized Hall conductivity in multiples of $e^2/h$. Here we show that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-11 Börge Göbel , Ingrid Mertig

Quantum anomalous Hall effect(QAHE) can only be realized at extremely low temperatures in magnetically doped topological insulators(TIs) due to limitations inherent with the doping precess. In an effort to boost the quantization temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-17 Xiong Yao , Bin Gao , Myung-Geun Han , Deepti Jain , Jisoo Moon , Jae Wook Kim , Yimei Zhu , Sang-Wook Cheong , Seongshik Oh

We theoretically show that the three-dimensional (3D) topological insulator (TI)/thin-film ferromagnetic metal (FMM) bilayer structure is possible to be a quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulator with a wide global band gap. Studying the band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Katsuhiro Arimoto , Takashi Koretsune , Kentaro Nomura

Instability of quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect has been studied as function of electric current and temperature in ferromagnetic topological insulator thin films. We find that a characteristic current for the breakdown of the QAH effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Minoru Kawamura , Ryutaro Yoshimi , Atsushi Tsukazaki , Kei S. Takahashi , Masashi Kawasaki , Yoshinori Tokura

A general mechanism is presented by which topological physics arises in strongly correlated systems without flat bands. Starting from a charge transfer insulator, topology emerges when the charge transfer energy between the cation and anion…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-08 Trithep Devakul , Liang Fu

The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE), the last member of Hall family, was predicted to exhibit quantized Hall conductivity e2/h without any external magnetic field. The QAHE shares a similar physical phenomenon with the integer quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Cui-Zu Chang , Mingda Li

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulator is a topological phase which exhibits chiral edge states in the absence of magnetic field. The celebrated Haldane model is the first example of QAH effect, but difficult to realize. Here, we predict…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-24 H. P. Wang , Wei Luo , H. J. Xiang

The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) realizes dissipationless longitudinal resistivity and quantized Hall resistance without the need of an external magnetic field. However, when reducing the device dimensions or increasing the current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-30 Gertjan Lippertz , Andrea Bliesener , Anjana Uday , Lino M. C. Pereira , A. A. Taskin , Yoichi Ando