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In magnetically doped thin-film topological insulators, aligning the magnetic moments generates a quantum anomalous Hall phase supporting a single chiral edge state. We show that as the system de-magnetizes, disorder from randomly oriented…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-30 Arbel Haim , Roni Ilan , Jason Alicea

We report a nearly ideal quantum anomalous Hall effect in a three-dimensional topological insulator thin film with ferromagnetic doping. Near zero applied magnetic field we measure exact quantization in Hall resistance to within a part per…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. J. Bestwick , E. J. Fox , Xufeng Kou , Lei Pan , Kang L. Wang , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

We investigate a transition between a two-dimensional topological insulator conduction state, characterized by a conductance $G=2$ (in fundamental units $e^2/h$) and a Chern insulator with $G=1$, induced by polarized magnetic impurities.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 Laurent Raymond , Alberto D. Verga , Arnaud Demion

We investigate magnetotransport in exfoliated nanostructures of the candidate magnetic 3D topological insulator $\mathrm{EuSn_{2}As_{2}}$. Similar to macroscopic single crystals, the negative magnetoresistance observed below the N\'eel…

In the quantum anomalous Hall effect, the edge states of a ferromagnetically doped topological insulator exhibit quantized Hall resistance and dissipationless transport at zero magnetic field. Up to now, however, the resistance was…

It is of great interest to explore intrinsic two-dimensional ferromagnetism and seek better two-dimensional quantum anomalous Hall insulator materials. Here, we show that the FeBr$_3$ monolayer is an intrinsic two-dimensional ferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-10 Shi-Hao Zhang , Bang-Gui Liu

A key step towards dissipationless transport devices is the quantum anomalous Hall effect, which is characterized by an integer quantized Hall conductance in a ferromagnetic insulator with strong spin-orbit coupling. In this work, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-29 Hai-Zhou Lu , Shun-Qing Shen

Recent work has extended topological band theory to open, non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, yet little is understood about how non-Hermiticity alters the topological quantization of associated observables. We address this problem by studying the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 Timothy M. Philip , Mark R. Hirsbrunner , Matthew J. Gilbert

We propose a new pathway to the quantized anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) by coupling an altermagnet to a topological crystalline insulator (TCI). The former gaps the topological surface states of the TCI, thereby realizing the QAHE in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Xuance Jiang , Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Deyu Lu , Jennifer Cano

The Kagome metal Potassium Tri-vanadium Pent-antimonide can support the quantum anomalous Hall effect theoretically. This is justified by flat bands and Dirac points susceptible to gap opening by spin-orbit coupling or magnetic ordering.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Partha Goswami

We theoretically report that, with \textit{in-plane} magnetization, the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) can be realized in two-dimensional atomic crystal layers with preserved inversion symmetry but broken out-of-plane mirror…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-21 Yafei Ren , Junjie Zeng , Xinzhou Deng , Fei Yang , Hui Pan , Zhenhua Qiao

We show that a weak hexagonal periodic potential could transform a two-dimensional electron gas with an even-denominator magnetic filling factor to a quantum anomalous Hall insulator of composite fermions, giving rise to fractionally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Yinhan Zhang , Junren Shi

In flat-band materials, the strong Coulomb interaction between electrons can lead to exotic physical phenomena. Recently, $\alpha$-In$_2$Se$_3$ thin films were found to possess ferroelectricity and flat bands. In this work, using…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-16 Zhiqiang Tian , Jin-Yang Li , Tao Ouyang , Chao-Fei Liu , Ziran Liu , Si Li , Anlian Pan , Mingxing Chen

When a three-dimensional (3D) ferromagnetic topological insulator thin film is magnetized out-of-plane, conduction ideally occurs through dissipationless, one-dimensional (1D) chiral states that are characterized by a quantized, zero-field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-13 A. Kandala , A. Richardella , S. Kempinger , C-X. Liu , N. Samarth

We predict robust Ising ferromagnetism driven by Coulomb interaction in the metallic phase of twisted transition metal dichalcogenides homobilayers for a range of small twist angles. Due to the presence of spin-valley locking and Chern…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-24 Valentin Crépel , Liang Fu

We report on the scaling behavior of V-doped (Bi,Sb)$_2$Te$_3$ samples in the quantum anomalous Hall regime for samples of various thickness. While previous quantum anomalous Hall measurements showed the same scaling as expected from a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 S. Grauer , K. M. Fijalkowski , S. Schreyeck , M. Winnerlein , K. Brunner , R. Thomale , C. Gould , L. W. Molenkamp

A novel topological insulator with tunable edge states, called quantum spin-quantum anomalous Hall (QSQAH) insulator, is predicted in a heterostructure of a hydrogenated Sb (SbH) monolayer on a LaFeO3 substrate by using ab initio methods.…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-10 Tong Zhou , Jiayong Zhang , Yang Xue , Bao Zhao , Huisheng Zhang , Hua Jiang , Zhongqin Yang

Magnetic topological states refer to a class of exotic phases in magnetic materials with their non-trivial topological property determined by magnetic spin configurations. An example of such states is the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) state,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Yi-Fan Zhao , Ruoxi Zhang , Zi-Ting Sun , Ling-Jie Zhou , Deyi Zhuo , Zi-Jie Yan , Hemian Yi , Ke Wang , Moses H. W. Chan , Chao-Xing Liu , K. T. Law , Cui-Zu Chang

Multi-$Q$ magnets consist of superposed spin density waves with distinct magnetic modulation vectors, enabling a wide range of magnetic orders depending on their combination. Among them, topologically nontrivial spin textures, such as a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-12 Satoru Ohgata , Satoru Hayami

We predict the emergence a state of matter with intertwined ferromagnetism, charge order and topology in fractionally filled moir\'e superlattice bands. Remarkably, these quantum anomalous Hall crystals exhibit a quantized integer Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 D. N. Sheng , Aidan P. Reddy , Ahmed Abouelkomsan , Emil J. Bergholtz , Liang Fu