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Nontrivial band topology along with magnetism leads to different novel quantum phases. When time-reversal-symmetry is broken in three-dimensional topological insulators (TIs) by applying high enough magnetic field or proximity effect,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-11 Nezhat Pournaghavi , Banasree Sadhukhan , Anna Delin

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect has been recently discovered in experiment using thin-film topological insulator with ferromagnetic ordering and strong spin-orbit coupling. Here we investigate the spin degree of freedom of a QAH…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-30 Jiansheng Wu , Jie Liu , Xiong-Jun Liu

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

In magnetic topological insulators, a phase transition between a quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) and an Anderson localization phase can be triggered by the rotation of an applied magnetic field. Without the scattering paths along magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Kristof Moors , Gen Yin

The understanding of the Chern insulator and anomalous quantum Hall effect (AQHE) in terms of chiral edge states in confined systems is the first aim of the paper. The model we use consists in a diatomic square lattice with hopping to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 B. Ostahie , M. Nita , A. Aldea

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators have unique electronic properties, comprising a band gap in their two-dimensional interior and one-dimensional spin-polarized edge states in which current flows ballistically. In scanning tunneling…

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

We report a nearly ideal quantum anomalous Hall effect in a three-dimensional topological insulator thin film with ferromagnetic doping. Near zero applied magnetic field we measure exact quantization in Hall resistance to within a part per…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. J. Bestwick , E. J. Fox , Xufeng Kou , Lei Pan , Kang L. Wang , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

We develop a theory of edge state transport in separately contacted double-layer quantum Hall systems which are tuned close to the resonance condition for tunneling between the layers. When applied to the case where contact is made to only…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 D. Yoshioka , A. H. MacDonald

Combining magnetism and nontrivial band topology gives rise to quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators and exotic quantum phases such as the QAH effect where current flows without dissipation along quantized edge states. Inducing magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Qile Li , Chi Xuan Trang , Weikang Wu , Jinwoong Hwang , Nikhil Medhekar , Sung-Kwan Mo , Shengyuan A. Yang , Mark T Edmonds

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators are two-dimensional (2D) insulating states exhibiting properties similar to those of quantum Hall states but without external magnetic field. They have quantized Hall conductance $\sigma^H=Ce^2/h$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-29 Chen Fang , Matthew J. Gilbert , B. Andrei Bernevig

We develop a simple model of surface states for topological insulators, developing matching relations for states on surfaces of different orientations. The model allows one to write simple Dirac Hamiltonians for each surface, and to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-19 L. Brey , H. A. Fertig

We demonstrate the dissipationless transport of the chiral edge state (CES) in the nanodevices of quantum anomalous Hall insulator candidate MnBi2Te4. The device presents a near-zero longitudinal resistance together with a quantized Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-16 Zhe Ying , Shuai Zhang , Bo Chen , Bin Jia , Fucong Fei , Minhao Zhang , Haijun Zhang , Xuefeng Wang , Fengqi Song

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect in the films with nontrivial band structure accompanies the ferromagnetic transition in the system of magnetic dopants. Experimentally, the QAH transition manifests itself as a jump in the dependence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Z. Yue , M. E. Raikh

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect is a quantum Hall effect that occurs without the need of external magnetic field. A system composed of multiple parallel QAH layers is an effective high Chern number QAH insulator and the key to the…

We examine the transport properties of magnetically doped topological insulator (TI) thin films subject to correlated non-magnetic disorder. For the disorder we choose a quasi-periodic potential with a random phase. We restrict the disorder…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 Takuya Okugawa , Tanay Nag , Dante M. Kennes

The survival of the quantum spin Hall edge channels in presence of an external magnetic field has been a subject of experimental and theoretical research. The inversion of Landau levels that accommodates the quantum spin Hall effect is…

In magnetic topological phases of matter, the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect is an emergent phenomenon driven by ferromagnetic doping, magnetic proximity effects and strain engineering. The realization of QAH states with multiple…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 R. Adhikari , V. V. Volobuev , B. Faina , G. Springholz , A. Bonanni

Magnetic topological states refer to a class of exotic phases in magnetic materials with their non-trivial topological property determined by magnetic spin configurations. An example of such states is the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) state,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Yi-Fan Zhao , Ruoxi Zhang , Zi-Ting Sun , Ling-Jie Zhou , Deyi Zhuo , Zi-Jie Yan , Hemian Yi , Ke Wang , Moses H. W. Chan , Chao-Xing Liu , K. T. Law , Cui-Zu Chang

We have investigated low-temperature electronic transport on InAs/GaSb double quantum wells, a system which promises to be electrically tunable from a normal to a topological insulator. Hall bars of $50\,\mu$m in length down to a few $\mu$m…