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Nonlinear electronic transport has emerged as a powerful probe of the quantum geometry in topological quantum materials, where the band topology and broken symmetries facilitate power law current voltage responses beyond Ohms law. While…

We report transport studies of Mn-doped Bi2Te3 topological insulator (TI) films with accurately controlled thickness grown by molecular beam epitaxy. We find that films thicker than 5 quintuple-layer (QL) exhibit the usual anomalous Hall…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-01 Chang Liu , Yunyi Zang , Wei Ruan , Yan Gong , Ke He , Xucun Ma , Qi-Kun Xue , Yayu Wang

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

Nonlinear transport has emerged as a powerful approach to probe the quantum geometry of electronic wavefunctions, such as Berry curvature and quantum metric, in topological materials. While nonlinear responses governed by bulk quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Deyi Zhuo , Xiaoda Liu , Huu-Thong Le , Annie G. Wang , Han Tay , Bomin Zhang , Ling-Jie Zhou , Binghai Yan , Chao-Xing Liu , Cui-Zu Chang

In this communication, we numerically studied disordered quantum transport in a quantum anomalous Hall insulator-superconductor junction based on the effective edge model approach. In particular, we focus on the parameter regime with the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-21 Jian-Xiao Zhang , Chao-Xing Liu

Spin chirality in metallic materials with non-coplanar magnetic order can give rise to a Berry phase induced topological Hall effect. Here, we report the observation of a large topological Hall effect in high-quality films of Mn$_{1.5}$PtSn…

Noncollinear antiferromagnets with a D0$_{19}$ (space group = 194, P6$_{3}$/mmc) hexagonal structure have garnered much attention for their potential applications in topological spintronics. Here, we report the deposition of continuous…

Sixty years ago, Karplus and Luttinger pointed out that quantum particles moving on a lattice could acquire an anomalous transverse velocity in response to a force, providing an explanation for the unusual Hall effect in ferromagnetic…

We report the discovery of an in plane quantization (IPQ) state in trilayer magnetic topological insulators, characterized by a quantized longitudinal conductivity of e2/h under strong in-plane magnetic fields. This state emerges at a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-10 Ting-Hsun Yang , Yaochen Li , Peng Zhang , Penghao Zhu , Hung-Yu Yang , Eun Sang Choi , Kaiwei Chen , Wenqiang Cui , Kin Wong , Peng Deng , Gang Qiu , Kang L. Wang

We use a scanning capacitance probe to image transport in the quantum Hall system. Applying a DC bias voltage to the tip induces a ring-shaped incompressible strip (IS) in the 2D electron system (2DES) that moves with the tip. At certain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. A. Steele , R. C. Ashoori , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

Weyl semimetals have been theoretically predicted to become topological metals with anomalous Hall conductivity in amorphous systems. However, measuring the anomalous Hall conductivity in realistic materials, particularly those with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Jiong-Hao Wang , Yong Xu

Combining the ability to prepare high-quality, intrinsic Bi$_2$Te$_3$ topological insulator thin films of low carrier density with in-situ protective capping, we demonstrate a pronounced, gate-tunable change in transport properties of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-04 Prosper Ngabonziza , Martin P. Stehno , Hiroaki Myoren , Viola A. Neumann , Gertjan Koster , Alexander Brinkman

Certain fractional quantum Hall edges have been predicted to undergo quantum phase transitions which reduce the number of edge channels and at the same time bind electrons together. However, detailed studies of experimental signatures of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 Christian Spånslätt , Ady Stern , Alexander D. Mirlin

In this study, we investigate intrinsic magnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4 thin films grown by molecular beam epitaxy. We observe a reentrant quantum anomalous Hall effect when the Fermi energy enters the valance band and magnetic…

Strongly correlated electron liquids which occur in quantizing magnetic fields reveal a cornucopia of fascinating quantum phenomena such as fractionally charged quasiparticles, anyonic statistics, topological order, and many others. Probing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-09 D. A. Abanin , I. Skachko , X. Du , E. Y. Andrei , L. S. Levitov

We present a systematic microscopic derivation of the semiclassical Boltzmann equation for band structures with the finite Berry curvature based on Keldysh technique of nonequilibrium systems. In the analysis, an ac electrical driving field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-13 Elio J. König , Alex Levchenko

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) state is a two-dimensional bulk insulator with a non-zero Chern number in absence of external magnetic fields. Protected gapless chiral edge states enable dissipationless current transport in electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-25 Hai-Jun Zhang , Xiao Zhang , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We report a topological semimetal W2As3 with a space group C2/m. Based on the first-principles calculations, band crossings are partially gapped when spin-orbit coupling is included. The Z2 indices at the electron filling are [1;111],…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-02 Yupeng Li , Chenchao Xu , Mingsong Shen , Jinhua Wang , Xiaohui Yang , Xiaojun Yang , Zengwei Zhu , Chao Cao , Zhu-An Xu

We report on a temperature-induced transition from a conventional semiconductor to a two-dimensional topological insulator investigated by means of magnetotransport experiments on HgTe/CdTe quantum well structures. At low temperatures, we…

The experimental realization of the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect in magnetically-doped (Bi, Sb)2Te3 films stands out as a landmark of modern condensed matter physics. However, ultra-low temperatures down to few tens of mK are needed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-12 W. Li , M. Claassen , Cui-Zu Chang , B. Moritz , T. Jia , C. Zhang , S. Rebec , J. J. Lee , M. Hashimoto , D. -H. Lu , R. G. Moore , J. S. Moodera , T. P. Devereaux , Z. -X. Shen