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Based on ab initio calculations, we predict that a monolayer of Cr-doped (Bi,Sb)2Te3 and GdI2 heterostructure is a quantum anomalous Hall insulator with a non-trivial band gap up to 38 meV. The principle behind our prediction is that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Gang Xu , Jing Wang , Claudia Felser , Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We study the nu=1/3 quantum Hall state in presence of the random disorder. We calculate the topologically invariant Chern number, which is the only quantity known at present to unambiguously distinguish between insulating and current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. N. Sheng , Xin Wan , E. H. Rezayi , Kun Yang , R. N. Bhatt , F. D. M. Haldane

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) phase is a two-dimensional bulk ferromagnetic insulator with a nonzero Chern number in presence of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) but absence of applied magnetic fields. Associated metallic chiral edge states host…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-28 Jian Zhou , Qi-Feng Liang , Hongming Weng , Y. B. Chen , Shu-Hua Yao , Yan-Feng Chen , Jinming Dong , Guang-Yu Guo

We study the possibility of realizing quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) with tunable Chern number through doping magnetic elements in the multi-layer topological insulator film. We find that high Chern number QAHE phases exist in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Hua Jiang , Zhenhua Qiao , Haiwen Liu , Qian Niu

We consider a disordered topological insulator thin film placed on the top of a ferromagnetic insulator with a perpendicular exchange field $M$ and subjected to a perpendicular electric field. The presence of ferromagnetic insulator causes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-15 Siamak Pooyan , Mir Vahid Hosseini

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) state is a two-dimensional bulk insulator with a non-zero Chern number in absence of external magnetic fields. Protected gapless chiral edge states enable dissipationless current transport in electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-25 Hai-Jun Zhang , Xiao Zhang , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We study transport properties and topological phase transition in two-dimensional interacting disordered systems. Within dynamical mean-field theory, we derive the Hall conductance, which is quantized and serves as a topological invariant…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-03-27 Jun-Hui Zheng , Tao Qin , Walter Hofstetter

The quantum anomalous Hall system with Chern number 2 can be destroyed by sufficiently strong disorder. During its process towards localization, it was found that the electronic states will be directly localized to an Anderson insulator…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-12 Zhi-Gang Song , Yan-Yang Zhang , Jun-Tao Song , Shu-Shen Li

We propose a new mechanism to explain the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect and the electric-field-induced topological phase transition in AB-stacked MoTe${}_2$/WSe${}_2$ moir\'e heterobilayers at $\nu=1$ hole filling. We suggest that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Yao-Wen Chang , Yia-Chung Chang

A semimagnetic topological insulator -- a heterostructure combining a topological insulator with a ferromagnet -- exhibits a half-quantized Hall effect, characterized by a quantized Hall conductance of $\frac{1}{2}\frac{e^{2}}{h}$ (where…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-10-30 Shi-Hao Bi , Bo Fu , Shun-Qing Shen

Quantum anomalous Hall effect, with a trademark of dissipationless chiral edge states for electronics/spintronics transport applications, can be realized in materials with large spin-orbit coupling and strong intrinsic magnetization. After…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-05 Muhammad Nadeem , Alex R. Hamilton , Michael S. Fuhrer , Xiaolin Wang

The low-energy physics of two-dimensional Quantum Anomalous Hall insulators like (Hg,Mn)Te quantum wells or magnetically doped (Bi,Sb)Te thin films can be effectively described by two Chern insulators, including a Dirac, as well as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-11 C. Tutschku , F. S. Nogueira , C. Northe , J. van den Brink , E. M. Hankiewicz

In twisted MoTe$_{2}$, latest transport measurement has reported observation of quantum anomalous Hall effect at hole filling $\nu=-1$, which undergoes a topological phase transition to a trivial ferromagnet as layer hybridization gets…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-15 Feng-Ren Fan , Cong Xiao , Wang Yao

A quantum phase transition arises from competition between different ground states and is typically accessed by varying a single physical parameter near absolute zero temperature. The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect with high Chern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Ling-Jie Zhou , Deyi Zhuo , Ruobing Mei , Yi-Fan Zhao , Kaijie Yang , Ruoxi Zhang , Zijie Yan , Han Tay , Moses H. W. Chan , Chao-Xing Liu , Cui-Zu Chang

This review deals with strongly disordered topological insulators and covers some recent applications of a well established analytic theory based on the methods of Non-Commutative Geometry (NCG) and developed for the Integer Quantum…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-03-17 Emil Prodan

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Yi-Fan Zhao , Ruoxi Zhang , Ling-Jie Zhou , Ruobing Mei , Zi-Jie Yan , Moses H. W. Chan , Chao-Xing Liu , Cui-Zu Chang

Topological insulators are bulk electronic insulators which possess symmetry protected gapless modes on their surfaces. Breaking the symmetries that underlie the gapless nature of the surface modes is predicted to give rise to exotic new…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-15 J. G. Checkelsky , R. Yoshimi , A. Tsukazaki , K. S. Takahashi , Y. Kozuka , J. Falson , M. Kawasaki , Y. Tokura

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

The quantum Hall (QH) effect, quantized Hall resistance combined with zero longitudinal resistance, is the characteristic experimental fingerprint of Chern insulators - topologically non-trivial states of two-dimensional matter with broken…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Cui-Zu Chang , Chao-Xing Liu , Allan H. MacDonald

Chiral superconductors exhibit novel transport properties that depend on the topology of the order parameter, topology of the Fermi surface, the spectrum of bulk and edge Fermionic excitations, and the structure of the impurity potential.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-04-15 Vudtiwat Ngampruetikorn , J. A. Sauls