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The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) is a robust topological phenomenon featuring quantized Hall resistance at zero magnetic field. We report the QAHE in a rhombohedral pentalayer graphene/monolayer WS2 heterostructure. Distinct from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Tonghang Han , Zhengguang Lu , Yuxuan Yao , Jixiang Yang , Junseok Seo , Chiho Yoon , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Liang Fu , Fan Zhang , Long Ju

It is a conventional wisdom that the helical edge states of quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulator are particularly stable due to the topological protection of time-reversal symmetry. Here, we report the first experimental observation of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Huanhuan Yang , Lingling Song , Yunshan Cao , X. R. Wang , Peng Yan

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulator is a topological quantum state with quantized Hall resistance and zero longitudinal resistance in the absence of an external magnetic field. The QAH insulator carries spin-polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-14 Han Tay , Yi-Fan Zhao , Ling-Jie Zhou , Ruoxi Zhang , Zi-Jie Yan , Deyi Zhuo , Moses H. W. Chan , Cui-Zu Chang

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).…

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect in magnetic topological insulators is driven by the combination of spontaneous magnetic moments and spin-orbit coupling. Its recent experimental discovery raises the question if higher plateaus can also…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-26 Jing Wang , Biao Lian , Haijun Zhang , Yong Xu , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We present a microscopic theory of the chiral one-dimensional electron gas system localized on the sidewalls of magnetically-doped Bi$_2$Se$_3$-family topological insulator nanoribbons in the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) regime. Our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-05 A. Pertsova , C. M. Canali , A. H. MacDonald

Topological insulators host topology-linked boundary states, whose spin and charge degrees of freedom could be exploited to design topological devices with enhanced functionality. We experimentally observe that dissipationless chiral edge…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 Chao Chen , Xing Ding , Jian Qin , Jizhou Wu , Yu He , Chao-Yang Lu , Li Li , Xiong-Jun Liu , Barry C. Sanders , Jian-Wei Pan

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

The integer quantum Hall effect is a topological state of quantum matter in two dimensions, and has recently been observed in three-dimensional topological insulator thin films. Here we study the Landau levels and edge states of surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 Song-Bo Zhang , Hai-Zhou Lu , Shun-Qing Shen

Where chiral modes should appear is an essential question for the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect in three-dimensional topological insulators (3DTIs). In this Letter, we show that in a slab of ferromagnetic 3DTI subjected to a uniform…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-19 Kiminori Hattori , Hiroaki Okamoto

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

The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) hosts the dissipationless chiral edge states associated with the nonzero Chern number, providing potentially significant applications in future spintronics. The QAHE usually occurs in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-08 Y. J. Jin , R. Wang , B. W. Xia , B. B. Zheng , H. Xu

Conventional topological classification theory dictates that time-reversal symmetry confines the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect to a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ classification, permitting only a single pair of gapless helical edge states. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Zhiyu Chen , Fangyang Zhan , Zheng Qin , Da-Shuai Ma , Dong-Hui Xu , Rui Wang

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 effect (QAHE) that emerges under broken time-reversal symmetry in topological insulators (TI) exhibits many fascinating physical properties for potential applications in nano-electronics and spintronics. However,…

The quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect, characterized by topologically protected spin-polarized edge states, was recently demonstrated in monolayers of the transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) WTe$_2$. However, the robustness of this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-07 Felix Lüpke , Dacen Waters , Anh D. Pham , Jiaqiang Yan , David G. Mandrus , Panchapakesan Ganesh , Benjamin M. Hunt

Although indications are that a single chiral quantum anomalous Hall(QAH) edge mode might have been experimentally detected. There have been very many recent experiments which conjecture that a single chiral QAH edge mode always…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-23 Arjun Mani , Colin Benjamin

Doping a topological insulator (TI) film with transition metal ions can break its time-reversal symmetry and lead to the realization of the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect. Prior studies have shown that the longitudinal resistance of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Shu-Wei Wang , Di Xiao , Ziwei Dou , Moda Cao , Yi-Fan Zhao , Nitin Samarth , Cui-Zu Chang , Malcolm R. Connolly , Charles G. Smith

The quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect is the property of a new state of matter which preserves time-reversal, has an energy gap in the bulk, but has topologically robust gapless states at the edge. Recently, it has been shown that HgTe quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xi Dai , Taylor L. Hughes , Xiao-Liang Qi , Zhong Fang , Shou-Cheng Zhang

The original motivation of great interest to topological insulators was the hope to observe the quantum spin Hall effect. Therefore if a material is in the topological insulator state they frequently call it the quantum spin Hall state.…

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