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Doping a topological insulator (TI) film with transition metal ions can break its time-reversal symmetry and lead to the realization of the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect. Prior studies have shown that the longitudinal resistance of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Shu-Wei Wang , Di Xiao , Ziwei Dou , Moda Cao , Yi-Fan Zhao , Nitin Samarth , Cui-Zu Chang , Malcolm R. Connolly , Charles G. Smith

We demonstrate that introducing altermagnetism on the surface of a weak topological insulator (TI) results in the emergence of a single massless Dirac fermion, exhibiting a parity anomaly. To explore the transport properties induced by this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Yu-Hao Wan , Qing-Feng Sun

Remarkable recent experiments on the moir\'e structure formed by pentalayer rhombohedral graphene aligned with a hexagonal Boron-Nitride substrate report the discovery of a zero field fractional quantum hall effect. These "(Fractional)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-10 Zhihuan Dong , Adarsh S. Patri , T. Senthil

The quantum anomalous Hall effect in magnetic topological insulators has been recognized as a promising platform for applications in quantum metrology. The primary reason for this is the electronic conductance quantization at zero external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Kajetan M. Fijalkowski , Nan Liu , Martin Klement , Steffen Schreyeck , Karl Brunner , Charles Gould , Laurens W. Molenkamp

The interplay between strong correlations and topology can lead to the emergence of intriguing quantum states of matter. One well-known example is the fractional quantum Hall effect, where exotic electron fluids with fractionally charged…

Double layer quantum Hall systems have interesting properties associated with interlayer correlations. At $\nu =1/m$ where $m$ is an odd integer they exhibit spontaneous symmetry breaking equivalent to that of spin $1/2$ easy-plane…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Kun Yang , K. Moon , L. Zheng , A. H. MacDonald , S. M. Girvin , D. Yoshioka , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We demonstrate that Dirac fermions in 2+1 dimensions, coupled to Abelian gauge fields in multiply-connected regions, exhibit a parity anomaly that directly manifests as Aharonov-Bohm (AB) type topological phases. Using the Fujikawa method,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-21 Harun Basmaci , Hasan Ozgur Cildiroglu

The quantum Hall effect emerges when two-dimensional samples are subjected to strong magnetic fields at low temperatures: Topologically protected edge states cause a quantized Hall conductivity in multiples of $e^2/h$. Here we show that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-11 Börge Göbel , Ingrid Mertig

We show that in the proximity of s-wave superconductors, the magnetic topological surface states can transform into Majorana surface state, featuring a single gapless Majorana cone with parity anomaly when the superconducting pairing gap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Yu-Hao Wan , Qing-Feng Sun

As one of paradigmatic phenomena in condensed matter physics, the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) in stoichiometric Chern insulators has drawn great interest for years. By using model Hamiltonian analysis and first-principle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Hongyi Sun , Bowen Xia , Zhongjia Chen , Yingjie Zhang , Pengfei Liu , Qiushi Yao , Hong Tang , Yujun Zhao , Hu Xu , Qihang Liu

Recent experiments on multilayer rhombohedral graphene have unearthed a number of interesting phenomena in the regime where Integer and Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall phenomena were previously reported. Specifically at low temperature…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-10 Adarsh S. Patri , Zhihuan Dong , T. Senthil

Quantum anomalous Hall insulator (QAH)/$s$-wave superconductor (SC) hybrid systems are known to be an ideal platform for realizing two-dimensional topological superconductors with chiral Majorana edge modes. In this paper we study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-09 Ryoi Ohashi , Shingo Kobayashi , Yukio Tanaka

An interaction-driven nonzero quantum Hall conductivity is shown to occur in time-reversal symmetric massive Dirac materials, in the absence of any external agent. The effect is produced through the dynamical breakdown of time-reversal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-07 Leandro O. Nascimento , E. C. Marino , Van Sérgio Alves , C. Morais Smith

We calculate the electron self-energy in a magnetized QED plasma to the leading perturbative order in the coupling constant and to the linear order in an external magnetic field. We find that the chiral asymmetry of the normal ground state…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-07-31 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , Xinyang Wang

In a magnetic metal, the Hall resistance is generally taken to be the sum of the ordinary Hall resistance and the anomalous Hall resistance. Here it is shown that this empirical relation is no longer valid when either the ordinary Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-21 Jiaji Zhao , Bingyan Jiang , Jinying Yang , Lujunyu Wang , Hengjie Shi , Guang Tian , Zhilin Li , Enke Liu , Xiaosong Wu

Recently, antiferromagnetic (AF) materials have attracted rapid attention, because they are considered as outstanding candidates to replace the widely used ferromagnets in the next generation of spintronics. We propose a magnetoresistance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Wei-Tao Lu , Qing-Feng Sun

The quantum anomalous Hall effect is defined as a quantized Hall effect realized in a system without external magnetic field. Quantum anomalous Hall effect is a novel manifestation of topological structure in many-electron systems, and may…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-31 Chao-Xing Liu , Shou-Cheng Zhang , Xiao-Liang Qi

We have studied the fractional and integer quantum Hall (QH) effects in a high-mobility double-layer two-dimensional electron system. We have compared the "stability" of the QH state in balanced and unbalanced double quantum wells. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Sawada , Z. F. Ezawa , H. Ohno , Y. Horikoshi , O. Sugie , S. Kishimoto , F. Matsukura , Y. Ohno , M. Yasumoto

A single massive Dirac surface band is predicted to exhibit a half-quantized Hall conductance, a hallmark of the C = 1/2 parity anomaly state in quantum field theory. Experimental signatures of the C = 1/2 parity anomaly state have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Deyi Zhuo , Bomin Zhang , Humian Zhou , Han Tay , Xiaoda Liu , Zhiyuan Xi , Chui-Zhen Chen , Cui-Zu Chang

We propose that a quantum anomalous Hall insulator (QAHI) can be realized in a nanopatterned two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with a small in-plane magnetic field and a high carrier density. The Berry curvatures originating from the…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-08-25 Yongping Zhang , Chuanwei Zhang