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The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect is a novel topological spintronic phenomenon arising from inherent magnetization and spin-orbit coupling. Various theoretical and experimental efforts have been devoted in search of robust intrinsic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-01-18 Chengxi Huang , Jian Zhou , Haiping Wu , Kaiming Deng , Puru Jena , Erjun Kan

Based on ab initio calculations, we predict that a monolayer of Cr-doped (Bi,Sb)2Te3 and GdI2 heterostructure is a quantum anomalous Hall insulator with a non-trivial band gap up to 38 meV. The principle behind our prediction is that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Gang Xu , Jing Wang , Claudia Felser , Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators host topologically protected dissipationless chiral edge states, the number of which is determined by its Chern number. Up to now, the QAH state has been realized in a few magnetic topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-11 Dinghui Wang , Huaiqiang Wang , Haijun Zhang

Topological insulators are bulk electronic insulators which possess symmetry protected gapless modes on their surfaces. Breaking the symmetries that underlie the gapless nature of the surface modes is predicted to give rise to exotic new…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-15 J. G. Checkelsky , R. Yoshimi , A. Tsukazaki , K. S. Takahashi , Y. Kozuka , J. Falson , M. Kawasaki , Y. Tokura

The discovery of the quantum Hall (QH) effect led to the realization of a topological electronic state with dissipationless currents circulating in one direction along the edge of a two dimensional electron layer under a strong magnetic…

The realization of fractional Chern insulators in moir\'e materials has sparked the search for further novel phases of matter in this platform. In particular, recent works have demonstrated the possibility of realizing quantum anomalous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Raul Perea-Causin , Hui Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulator is the key material to study emergent topological quantum effects, but its ultralow working temperature limits experiments. Here, by first-principles calculations, we find a family of stable…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-26 Yang Li , Jiaheng Li , Yang Li , Meng Ye , Fawei Zheng , Zetao Zhang , Jingheng Fu , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect holds fundamental importance in topological physics and technological promise for electronics. It is generally believed that the QAH effect can only be realized in insulators. In this Letter, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Yu-Hao Wan , Peng-Yi Liu , Qing-Feng Sun

Moir\'e flatbands with high Chern numbers (C>1) offer opportunities to study the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effects that go beyond the Landau level paradigm with C=1, which remain unexplored yet. Here, we target the novel topological…

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect - a macroscopic manifestation of chiral band topology at zero magnetic field - has only been experimentally realized by magnetic doping of topological insulators (1 - 3) and delicate design of Moire…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-14 Fabian R. Geisenhof , Felix Winterer , Anna M. Seiler , Jakob Lenz , Tianyi Xu , Fan Zhang , R. Thomas Weitz

The quantum anomalous Hall effect is a intriguing topological nontrivial phase arising from spontaneous magnetization and spin-orbit coupling. However, the tremendously harsh realizing requirements of the quantum anomalous Hall effects in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-18 Ping Li , Tian-Yi Cai

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

Topological quantum states have been proposed and investigated on two-dimensional flat surfaces or lattices with different geometries like the plane, cylinder and torus. Here, we study quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) or Chern insulator (CI)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Ai-Lei He , Wei-Wei Luo , Yi-Fei Wang , Chang-De Gong

Over a long period of exploration, the successful observation of quantized version of anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in thin film of magnetically-doped topological insulator completed a quantum Hall trio---quantum Hall effect (QHE), quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-18 Hongming Weng , Rui Yu , Xiao Hu , Xi Dai , Zhong Fang

We investigate the interaction between quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) phases hosted by two atomically thin hexagonal lattices and demonstrate the emergence of topological phases with large Chern numbers. Interlayer coupling between two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 H. Minh Lam , V. Nam Do

The study of topological property of band insulators is an interesting branch of condensed matter physics. Two types of topologically nontrivial insulators have been extensively studied. The first type is characterized by a nonzero TKNN…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-15 Yi-Dong Wu

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

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

We propose that a quantum anomalous Hall insulator (QAHI) can be realized in a nanopatterned two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with a small in-plane magnetic field and a high carrier density. The Berry curvatures originating from the…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-08-25 Yongping Zhang , Chuanwei Zhang

Breaking the time-reversal symmetry of a topological insulator (TI) by ferromagnetism can induce exotic magnetoelectric phenomena such as quantized anomalous Hall (QAH) effect. Experimental observation of QAH effect in a magnetically doped…