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The abstract notion of topology has led to profound insights into real materials. Notably, the surface and edges of topological materials can host physics, such as unidirectional charge or spin transport, that is unavailable in isolated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-02 Nicodemos Varnava , Justin H. Wilson , J. H. Pixley , David Vanderbilt

We investigate the emergence of anti-ferromagnetic ordering and its effect on the helical edge states in a quantum spin Hall insulator, in the presence of strong Coulomb interaction. Using dynamical mean-field theory, we show that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-01 A. Amaricci , A. Valli , G. Sangiovanni , B. Trauzettel , M. Capone

We investigate the Kondo effect in the two-dimensional electron system with a non-trivial quadratic energy band crossing point. We show that the Kondo effect can induce a new hybrid topological insulator phase which is a coexistence state…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-04 Rui Wang , Baigeng Wang , L. Sheng , D. Y. Xing , Jian Wang

We show that a $d$-wave altermagnet can be transformed into a Chern insulator by irradiating it with elliptically polarized light from a high-frequency photon beam. We further explore the intrinsic anomalous thermoelectric and thermal Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Fang Qin , Xiao-Bin Qiang

We report the observation of TEMPERATURE-INDUCED transitions between insulator, metal, and quantum-Hall behaviors for transport coefficients in the very dilute high mobility two-dimensional electron system in silicon. We consider the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 S. V. Kravchenko , Whitney Mason , J. E. Furneaux , J. M. Caulfield , J. Singleton , V. M. Pudalov

The two-dimensional interacting electron gas at Landau level filling factor $\nu =1$ and temperature $T=0$ is a strong ferromagnet; all spins are completely aligned by arbitrarily weak Zeeman coupling. We report on a theoretical study of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Marcus Kasner , A. H. MacDonald

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…

The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) has been recently demonstrated in Cr- and V-doped three-dimensional topological insulators (TIs) at temperatures below 100 mK. In those materials, the spins of unfilled d-electrons in the transition…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-28 Zilong Jiang , Cui-Zu Chang , Chi Tang , Peng Wei , Jagadeesh S. Moodera , Jing Shi

The interfaces of quantum Hall insulators with superconductors have emerged as a promising platform to realise interesting physics that may be relevant for topologically protected quantum computing. However, these interfaces can host other…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Jordan T. McCourt , John Chiles , Chun-Chia Chen , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Tanaguchi , Francois Amet , Gleb Finkelstein

We theoretically study the magnetic proximity effect in the three dimensional (3D) topological insulator/ferromagnetic insulator (TI/FMI) structures in the context of possibility to manage the Dirac helical state in TI. Within continual…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-06-30 V. N. Men'shov , V. V. Tugushev , S. V. Eremeev , P. M. Echenique , E. V. Chulkov

Certain insulating materials with strong spin-orbit coupling can conduct currents along their edges or surfaces. This phenomenon arises from the non-trivial topological properties of the electronic band-structure, and is somewhat similar to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-08-22 Predrag Nikolic , Tanja Duric , Zlatko Tesanovic

We consider effects of magnetic field on the thermopower and thermoconductance of a single-electron transistor based on a quantum dot strongly coupled to one of the leads by a single-mode quantum point contact. We show appearance of two new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 T. K. T. Nguyen , M. N. Kiselev , V. E. Kravtsov

We investigate the effect of a high frequency electromagnetic field with both of circularly and linearly polarization, on the emergence of quantum phases on thin topological insulators. Simultaneously, the influence of the system parameters…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-21 S. Sajad Dabiri , Hosein Cheraghchi

We propose an unconventional type of Hall effect in a topological Dirac semimetal with ferromagnetic electrodes. The topological Dirac semimetal itself has time-reversal symmetry, whereas attached ferromagnetic electrodes break it, causing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-13 Koji Kobayashi , Kentaro Nomura

Precise estimation of spin Hall angle as well as successful maximization of spin-orbit torque (SOT) form a basis of electronic control of magnetic properties with spintronic functionality. Until now, current-nonlinear Hall effect, or second…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-02 K. Yasuda , A. Tsukazaki , R. Yoshimi , K. Kondou , K. S. Takahashi , Y. Otani , M. Kawasaki , Y. Tokura

Topological insulators (TIs) are a new class of quantum materials that exhibit spin momentum locking (SML) of massless Dirac fermions in the surface states. Usually optical methods, such as angle and spin-resolved photoemission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 André Dankert , Johannes Geurs , M. Venkata Kamalakar , Saroj P. Dash

Using THz spectroscopy in external magnetic fields we investigate the low-temperature charge dynamics of strained HgTe, a three dimensional topological insulator. From the Faraday rotation angle and ellipticity a complete characterization…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-03-27 A. M. Shuvaev , G. V. Astakhov , G. Tkachov , C. Brüne , H. Buhmann , L. W. Molenkamp , A. Pimenov

We analyze the effects of the local Coulomb interaction on a topological band insulator (TBI) by applying the dynamical mean field theory to a generalized Bernevig-Hughes-Zhang model having electron correlations. It is elucidated how the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-09-20 Tsuneya Yoshida , Satoshi Fujimoto , Norio Kawakami

The discovery of an intrinsic antiferromagnetic topological insulator (AFM-TI) in MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ has attracted intense attention, most of which lies on its electrical properties. In this paper, we report electronic, thermal, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-25 H. Zhang , C. Q. Xu , S. H. Lee , Z. Q. Mao , X. Ke

Topological quantum matter is characterized by non-trivial global invariants of the bulk which induce gapless electronic states at its boundaries. A case in point are two-dimensional topological insulators (2D-TI) which host one-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 R. Stühler , F. Reis , T. Müller , T. Helbig , T. Schwemmer , R. Thomale , J. Schäfer , R. Claessen