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The layer Hall effect is an intriguing phenomenon observed in magnetic topological layered materials, where the Hall response arises from the opposite deflection of electrons on top and bottom layers. To realize layer Hall effect,…

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The isospin flavors in condensed matters can be continuously broken, forming various symmetry-broken quantum states. In moir\'e crystals, the competition between different isospin configurations can be effectively tuned by the twist angles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Wenxuan Wang , Yijie Wang , Zaizhe Zhang , Zihao Huo , Gengdong Zhou , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , X. C. Xie , Kaihui Liu , Zhida Song , Xiaobo Lu

Topological insulators (TIs) represent a new quantum state of matter characterized by robust gapless states inside the insulating bulk gap. The metallic edge states of a two-dimensional (2D) TI, known as quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect, are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Liangzhi Kou , Binghai Yan , Feiming Hu , Shu-Chun Wu , Tim O. Wehling , Claudia Felser , Changfeng Chen , Thomas Frauenheim

In the framework of Hofstadter`s approach we provide a detailed analysis of a realization of exotic topological states such as the Chern insulator with large Chern numbers. In a transverse homogeneous magnetic field a one-particle spectrum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-27 Igor N. Karnaukhov

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene is the best studied physical platform featuring moire potential induced narrow bands with non-trivial topology and strong electronic correlations. Despite their significance, the Chern insulating states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Xiaoyu Wang , Oskar Vafek

Realizing Chern insulators with Chern numbers greater than one remains a major goal in quantum materials research. Such platforms promise multichannel dissipationless chiral transport and access to correlated phases beyond the conventional…

The search for topologically non-trivial states of matter has become an important goal for condensed matter physics. Here, we give a theoretical introduction to the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect based on magnetic topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-22 Jing Wang , Biao Lian , Shou-Cheng Zhang

An interplay of spin-orbit coupling and intrinsic magnetism is known to give rise to the quantum anomalous Hall and topological magnetoelectric effects under certain conditions. Their realization could open access to low power consumption…

The possibility of dissipationless chiral edge states without the need of an external magnetic field in the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) offers a great potential in electronic/spintronic applications. The biggest hurdle for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-12 Simon Mellaerts , Ruishen Meng , Mariela Menghini , Valeri Afanasiev , Jin Won Seo , Michel Houssa , Jean-Pierre Locquet

In this work, we propose an exactly solvable two-dimensional lattice model of strongly correlated electrons that realizes a quantum anomalous Hall insulator with Chern number $\mathcal{C}=1$. First, we show that the interplay of ionic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-13 Marcin M. Wysokiński , Wojciech Brzezicki

We show a tight-binding model for double perovskite monolayers grown in the {001} crystallographic direction can exhibit higher Chern numbers for the lowest band of the model dispersion in the absence of an applied magnetic field, including…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-28 A. M. Cook

We study the electronic structures and topological properties of $(M+N)$-layer twisted graphene systems. We consider the generic situation that $N$-layer graphene is placed on top of the other $M$-layer graphene, and is twisted with respect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Jianpeng Liu , Zhen Ma , Jinhua Gao , Xi Dai

The quantized version of the anomalous Hall effect has been predicted to occur in magnetic topological insulators, but the experimental realization has been challenging. Here, we report the observation of the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH)…

We show that an energy gap is induced in graphene by light-matter coupling to a circularly polarized photon mode in a cavity. Using many-body perturbation theory we compute the electronic spectra which exhibit photon-dressed sidebands akin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Xiao Wang , Enrico Ronca , Michael A. Sentef

The realization and detection of topological phases with ultracold atomic gases is at the frontier of current theoretical and experimental research. Here, we identify cold atoms in optical ladders subjected to synthetic magnetic fields as…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-16 Dario Hügel , Belén Paredes

Chern insulators are topologically non-trivial states of matter characterized by incompressible bulk and chiral edge states. Incorporating topological Chern bands with strong electronic correlations provides a versatile playground for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-14 Qianying Hu , Shu Liang , Xinheng Li , Hao Shi , Xi Dai , Yang Xu

Two-dimensional (2D) semi-Dirac materials are characterized by a quadratic dispersion in one direction and a linear dispersion along the orthogonal direction. We study the topological phase transition in such 2D systems in the presence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-01 Kush Saha

Two dimensional materials subject to long-wavelength modulations have emerged as novel platforms to study topological and correlated quantum phases. In this article, we develop a versatile and computationally inexpensive method to predict…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-03 Valentin Crépel , Jennifer Cano

The coexistence of topological magnons and electrons in magnetic materials presents a compelling route toward developing low-dissipation, multifunctional spintronic devices. However, material systems enabling their simultaneous realization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Haozhou Cai , Zhiming Xu , Jian Wu , Weiyi Pan

Although much effort has been made to explore quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) in both theory and experiment, the QAHE systems with tunable Chern numbers are yet limited. Here, we theoretically propose that NiAsO$_3$ and PdSbO$_3$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-27 Zeyu Li , Yulei Han , Zhenhua Qiao