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The plateau-to-plateau transition in quantum Hall effect under high magnetic fields is a celebrated quantum phase transition between two topological states through either sweeping the magnetic field or tuning the carrier density. The recent…

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In 2+1-dimensions (2+1D), a gapped quantum phase with no symmetry (i.e. a topological order) can have a thermal Hall conductance $\kappa_{xy}=c \frac{\pi^2 k_B^2}{3h}T$, where the dimensionless $c$ is called chiral central charge. If there…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-07 Oscar Randal-Williams , Lokman Tsui , Xiao-Gang Wen

Edge excitations of a fractional quantum Hall system can be derived as surface excitations of an incompressible quantum droplet using one dimensional chiral bosonization. Here we show that an analogous approach can be developed to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-05 N. M. Vildanov

We show that the chiral kagome ice manifold exhibits an anomalous integer quantum Hall effect (IQHE) when coupled to itinerant electrons. Although electron-mediated interactions select a magnetically ordered ground state, the full ice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-10 Gia-Wei Chern , Armin Rahmani , Ivar Martin , Cristian D. Batista

We study the edge states for a quantum anomalous Hall system (QAHS) coupled with a spin-singlet s-wave superconductor through the proximity effect, and clarify the topological nature of them. When we consider a superconducting pair…

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We study the spectral properties of infinite rectangular quantum graphs in the presence of a magnetic field. We study how these properties are affected when three-dimensionality is considered, in particular, the chaological properties. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 N. Goldman , P. Gaspard

We demonstrate that electrostatic interactions between helical electrons at the edge of a quantum spin Hall insulator and a dynamical impurity can induce quasi-elastic backscattering. Modelling the impurity as a two-level system, we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Max McGinley , Nigel R. Cooper

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,…

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Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-19 K. Bennemann

During the last years there has been much interest, and theoretical discussion, about the possibility to use spin-orbit coupling to control the carriers spins in two-dimensional semiconducting heterostructures. Spin polarization at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 A. A. Reynoso , G. Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

The electronic transport properties in magnetically doped ultra-thin films of topological-insulators is investigated by using Landauer-buttiker formalism. The chiral selective tunneling is addressed in such systems which leads to transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Taahere Sabze , Hosein Cheraghchi

The behaviour of the critical point between quantum Hall plateaux, as the Zeeman energy is varied, is analysed using modular symmetry of the Hall conductivities following from the law of corresponding states. Flow diagrams for the…

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We present the theoretical description for a class of experimental setups that measure quantum Hall coefficients in ferromagnet-topological insulator-ferromagnet (FM-TI-FM) junctions. We predict that varying the magnetization direction in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 A. L. Chudnovskiy , V. Kagalovsky

We present a combined classical and quantum electrodynamics description of the coupling between two circularly-polarized quantum emitters held above a metal surface supporting surface plasmons. Depending on their position and their natural…

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The edge of a two-dimensional electron system (2DES) in a magnetic field consists of one-dimensional (1D) edge-channels that arise from the confining electric field at the edge of the specimen$^{1-3}$. The crossed electric and magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 W. Kang , H. L. Stormer , K. W. Baldwin , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

Chiral integer quantum Hall (QH) edge modes are immune to backscattering and therefore are non-localized and show a vanishing longitudinal as well as non-local resistance along with quantized 2-terminal and Hall resistance even in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-24 Arjun Mani , Colin Benjamin

It has been demonstrated that topological quantum spin Hall (QSH) state exist in twisted bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides. However, a comprehensive theoretical characterization of the topological edge states remains a topic of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Hao He , Zhao Gong , Shuai Li , Jian-Jun Liu , Hui-Ying Mu , Xing-Tao An

Thermoelectricity is generally understood as a classical effect emerging from energy-dependent transport asymmetries. Here we uncover a purely quantum mechanism, where a superconducting S-I-S' tunnel junction in thermal equilibrium develops…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Filippo Antola , Giorgio De Simoni , Francesco Giazotto , Alessandro Braggio

Quantum Hall states can be characterized by their chiral edge modes. Upon softening the edge potential, the edge has long been known to undergo spontaneous reconstruction driven by charging effects. In this paper we demonstrate a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Udit Khanna , Ganpathy Murthy , Sumathi Rao , Yuval Gefen