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We report the interplay between two different topological phases in condensed matter physics, the magnetic chiral domain wall (DW), and the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect. We show that the chiral DW driven by Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya…

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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

In magnetic topological phases of matter, the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect is an emergent phenomenon driven by ferromagnetic doping, magnetic proximity effects and strain engineering. The realization of QAH states with multiple…

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Two-dimensional (2D) topological insulators (TIs) hold promise for applications in spintronics based on the fact that the propagation direction of edge electrons of a 2D TI is robustly linked to their spin origination. Here, with the use of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-02 Yandong Ma , Liangzhi Kou , Ying Dai , Thomas Heine

Topological insulators (TIs) show rich phenomena and functions which can never be realized in ordinary insulators. Most of them come from the peculiar surface or edge states. Especially, the quantized anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) without an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-03 Ryohei Wakatsuki , Motohiko Ezawa , Naoto Nagaosa

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect is characterized by a dissipationless chiral edge state with a quantized Hall resistance at zero magnetic field. Manipulating the QAH state is of great importance in both the understanding of…

We study the influence of step defect on surface states in three-dimensional topological insulators subject to a perpendicular magnetic field. By calculating the energy spectrum of the surface states, we find that Landau levels (LLs) can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-06 Yan-Feng Zhou , Ai-Min Guo , Qing-Feng Sun

We develop a simple model of surface states for topological insulators, developing matching relations for states on surfaces of different orientations. The model allows one to write simple Dirac Hamiltonians for each surface, and to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-19 L. Brey , H. A. Fertig

The discovery of the quantum Hall (QH) effect led to the realization of a topological electronic state with dissipationless currents circulating in one direction along the edge of a two dimensional electron layer under a strong magnetic…

We study the appearance of a chiral edge mode on the two-dimensional (2D) surface of a 3D topological insulator (TI). The edge mode appears along the 1D boundary with a magnetic insulator (MI), dependent on the angle $\theta$ which the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-17 C. W. J. Beenakker

The fractional quantum Hall (FQH) state is a topological state of matter resulting from the many-body effect of interacting electrons and is of vast interest in fundamental physics. The experimental observation of topological surface states…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-05-15 Dong-Xia Qu , Y. S. Hor , R. J. Cava

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…

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Chiral topological insulator (AIII-class) with Landau levels is constructed based on the Nambu 3-algebraic geometry. We clarify the geometric origin of the chiral symmetry of the AIII-class topological insulator in the context of…

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We explore potentials that break time-reversal symmetry to confine the surface states of 3D topological insulators into quantum wires and quantum dots. A magnetic domain wall on a ferromagnet insulator cap layer provides interfacial states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-06 Gerson J. Ferreira , Daniel Loss

We investigate the chiral electronic modes at the interface between two regions of a threefold topological semimetal, which is illuminated by left and right handed elliptically polarized waves. The radiation effects on the band structure of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-16 SK Firoz Islam , A. A. Zyuzin

We provide a characterization of tunneling between coupled topological insulators in 2D and 3D under the influence of a ferromagnetic layer. We explore conditions for such systems to exhibit integer quantum Hall physics and localized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Qinglei Meng , Smitha Vishveshwara , Taylor L. Hughes

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect in the films with nontrivial band structure accompanies the ferromagnetic transition in the system of magnetic dopants. Experimentally, the QAH transition manifests itself as a jump in the dependence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Z. Yue , M. E. Raikh

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect is a topologically nontrivial phase, characterized by a non-zero Chern number defined in the bulk and chiral edge states in the boundary. Using first-principles calculations, we demonstrate the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-06-26 Xiangru Kong , Linyang Li , Ortwin Leenaerts , Weiyang Wang , Xiong-Jun Liu , François M. Peeters

On the surface of 2D Topological insulators occur 1D quantum spin Hall(QSH) edge modes with Dirac like dispersion. Unlike quantum Hall(QH) edge modes which occur at high magnetic fields in 2DEGs, the occurrence of QSH edge modes is because…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-15 Arjun Mani , Colin Benjamin

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