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Two-dimensional Chern insulators have emerged as crucial platforms for the realization of the quantum anomalous Hall effect, and as such have attracted significant interest in spintronics and topological quantum physics due to their unique…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Panjun Feng , Miao Gao , Xun-Wang Yan , Fengjie Ma

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) phase is a novel topological state of matter characterized by a nonzero quantized Hall conductivity without an external magnetic field. The realizations of QAH effect, however, are experimentally…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-06-09 Ya-ping Wang , Wei-xiao Ji , Chang-wen Zhang , Ping Li , Pei-ji Wang , Biao Kong , Sheng-shi Li , Shi-shen Yan , Kang Liang

Chirality of massless fermions emergent in condensed matter is a key to understand their characteristic behavior as well as to exploit their functionality. However, chiral nature of massless fermions in Dirac semimetals has remained…

Recently, the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators are predicted in Lithium-decorated iron-based superconductor monolayer materials (LiFeX (X=S, Se and Te)) with very high Curie temperature (\textcolor[rgb]{0.00,0.00,1.00}{PRL 125,…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-27 San-Dong Guo , Wen-Qi Mu , Meng-Yuan Yin , Yu-Chen Li , Wencai Ren

Three-dimensional (3D) topological Dirac semimetal, when thinned down to 2D few layers, is expected to possess gapped Dirac nodes via quantum confinement effect and concomitantly display the intriguing quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulator…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-15 Huinan Xia , Yang Li , Min Cai , Le Qin , Nianlong Zou , Lang Peng , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu , Wenhao Zhang , Ying-Shuang Fu

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators with high Chern number (C) enables multiple dissipationless edge channels for low-power-consumption electronics. We report the realization of multiple high-C QAH insulators including C=3,5,6, and 7 in…

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

Nonlinear Hall effect (NLHE) is a new type of Hall effect with wide application prospects. Practical device applications require strong NLHE at room temperature (RT). However, previously reported NLHEs are all low-temperature phenomena…

CrSb is an attractive material for room-temperature antiferromagnetic spintronic applications because of its high N\'{e}el temperature $\sim$700 K and semi-metallic character. We study the magnetic properties of CrSb bilayers on few-layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Chao Lei , Hua Chen , Allan H. MacDonald

Quantum Spin Hall (QSH) insulators with a large topologically nontrivial bulk gap are crucial for future applications of the QSH effect. Among these, group III-V monolayers and their halides with chair structure (regular hexagonal…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-23 Linyang Li , Ortwin Leenaerts , Xiangru Kong , Xin Chen , Mingwen Zhao , François M. Peeters

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators host topologically protected dissipationless chiral edge states, the number of which is determined by its Chern number. Up to now, the QAH state has been realized in a few magnetic topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-11 Dinghui Wang , Huaiqiang Wang , Haijun Zhang

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect holds fundamental importance in topological physics and technological promise for electronics. It is generally believed that the QAH effect can only be realized in insulators. In this Letter, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Yu-Hao Wan , Peng-Yi Liu , Qing-Feng Sun

Chiral fermionic quasiparticles emerge in certain quantum condensed matter systems such as Weyl semimetals, topological insulators, and spin-orbit coupled noncentrosymmetric metals. Here, a comprehensive theory of the chiral anomaly-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 Azaz Ahmad , Gautham Varma K. , Gargee Sharma

Quantum anomalous Hall state is expected to emerge in Dirac electron systems such as graphene under both sufficiently strong exchange and spin-orbit interactions. In pristine graphene, neither interaction exists; however, both interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-12 Chi Tang , Bin Cheng , Mohammed Aldosary , Zhiyong Wang , Zilong Jiang , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , Marc Bockrath , Jing Shi

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,…

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators are two-dimensional (2D) insulating states exhibiting properties similar to those of quantum Hall states but without external magnetic field. They have quantized Hall conductance $\sigma^H=Ce^2/h$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-29 Chen Fang , Matthew J. Gilbert , B. Andrei Bernevig

We theoretically propose a family of structurally stable monolayer halide perovskite A$_3$B$_2$C$_9$ (A=Rb, Cs; B=Pd, Pt; C=Cl, Br) with easy magnetization planes. These materials are all half-metals with large spin gaps over 1~eV…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 Zeyu Li , Yulei Han , Zhenhua Qiao

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…

Recently, higher-order topological matter and 3D quantum Hall effects have attracted great attention. The Fermi-arc mechanism of the 3D quantum Hall effect proposed in Weyl semimetals is characterized by the one-sided hinge states, which do…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Rui Chen , Tianyu Liu , C. M. Wang , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

Although much effort has been made to explore quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) in both theory and experiment, the QAHE systems with tunable Chern numbers are yet limited. Here, we theoretically propose that NiAsO$_3$ and PdSbO$_3$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-27 Zeyu Li , Yulei Han , Zhenhua Qiao