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Focusing on the recently-discovered candidate topological insulator $\alpha$-(BEDT-TSeF)$_2$I$_3$ -- having two-dimensional charge-neutral Dirac cones in a low symmetry lattice -- we combine ab-initio and extended-Hubbard model calculations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-24 Daigo Ohki , Kazuyoshi Yoshimi , Akito Kobayashi

Electrons in topological flat bands can form novel topological states driven by the correlation effects. The penta-layer rhombohedral graphene/hBN moire superlattice has been shown to host fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect (FQAHE) at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Zhengguang Lu , Tonghang Han , Yuxuan Yao , Jixiang Yang , Junseok Seo , Lihan Shi , Shenyong Ye , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Long Ju

Quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) has been experimentally realized in magnetic topological insulator (MTI) thin films fabricated on magnetically doped (Bi,Sb)2Te3. In a MTI thin film with the magnetic easy axis along the normal direction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Xing Yanxia , Cheung King Tai , Xu Fuming , Sun Qing-feng , Wang Jian , Yao Yugui

Where chiral modes should appear is an essential question for the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect in three-dimensional topological insulators (3DTIs). In this Letter, we show that in a slab of ferromagnetic 3DTI subjected to a uniform…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-19 Kiminori Hattori , Hiroaki Okamoto

We demonstrate advantages of samples made by mechanical stacking of exfoliated van der Waals materials for controlling the topological surface state of a 3-dimensional topological insulator (TI) via interaction with an adjacent magnet…

We predict by first-principles calculations that thin films of Cr-doped (Bi,Sb)$_2$Te$_3$ magnetic topological insulator have gapless non-chiral edge states coexisting with the chiral edge state. Such gapless non-chiral states are not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-22 Jing Wang , Biao Lian , Haijun Zhang , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) has been experimentally observed in magnetically doped topological insulators. However, ultra-low temperature (usually below 300 mK), which is mainly attributed to inhomogeneous magnetic doping, becomes…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-26 Shifei Qi , Ruiling Gao , Maozhi Chang , Tao Hou , Yulei Han , Zhenhua Qiao

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators transport charge without resistance along topologically protected chiral one-dimensional edge states. Yet, in magnetic topological insulators (MTI) to date, topological protection is far from robust,…

Driven by various physical origins, the interesting reentrant phenomena in quantum Hall effect (QHE), quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) and non-Hermitian systems have been discussed recently. Here, we present that the reentrant phenomena…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Xiaoyu Cheng , Xiaohong Zheng , Jun Chen , Liantuan Xiao , Suotang Jia , Lei 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 (QAH) insulator is uniquely characterized by the topological Chern number C. Controlling the Chern number is a key step toward functional topological electronics and enables access to exotic quantum phases beyond…

Inducing Cooper pairing in a thin ferromagnetic topological insulator in the quantum anomalous Hall state (called quantum anomalous Hall insulator, QAHI) is a promising way to realize topological superconductivity with associated chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-30 Anjana Uday , Gertjan Lippertz , Kristof Moors , Henry F. Legg , Andrea Bliesener , Lino M. C. Pereira , A. A. Taskin , Yoichi Ando

The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) is a quantum phenomenon in which a two-dimensional system exhibits a quantized Hall resistance $h/e^2$ in the absence of magnetic field, where $h$ is the Planck constant and $e$ is the electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Zhi-Qiang Zhang , Yu-Hang Li , Ming Lu , Hongfang Liu , Hailong Li , Hua Jiang , X. C. Xie

Can a generic magnetic insulator exhibit a Hall current? The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) is one example of an insulating bulk carrying a quantized Hall conductivity and other insulators (with zero Chern number) present zero Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-06 Daniel Kaplan , Tobias Holder , Binghai Yan

The interplay between ferromagnetism and topological properties of electronic band structures leads to a precise quantization of Hall resistance without any external magnetic field. This so-called quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) is…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Shamiul Alam , Md Shafayat Hossain , Ahmedullah Aziz

A three-dimensional (3D) topological insulator (TI) is a quantum state of matter with a gapped insulating bulk yet a conducting surface hosting topologically-protected gapless surface states. One of the most distinct electronic transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-06 Yang Xu , Ireneusz Miotkowski , Chang Liu , Jifa Tian , Hyoungdo Nam , Nasser Alidoust , Jiuning Hu , Chih-Kang Shih , M. Zahid Hasan , Yong P. Chen

Heterostructures between topological insulators (TI) and magnetic insulators represent a pathway to realize the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE). Using density functional theory based systematic screening and investigation of…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-26 Anh Pham , Ling-Jie Zhou , Yi-Fan Zhao , Cui-Zu Chang , Timothy Charlton , P. Ganesh

The pursuit of high-temperature quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators faces fundamental challenges, including narrow topological gaps and low Curie temperatures ($T_{\text{C}}$) in existing materials. Here, we propose a transformative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Xiang Li , Xin-Wei Yi , Jing-Yang You , Jia-Wen Li , Qing-Han Yang , Gang Su , Bo Gu

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) state is a two-dimensional topological insulating state that has quantized Hall resistance of h/Ce2 and vanishing longitudinal resistance under zero magnetic field, where C is called the Chern number. The…

Abstract We theoretically study the realization of quantum anomalous Hall insulator (QAHI) of composite fermions (CFs) in the twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) system. We show that the moir\'e pattern in TBG is not only able to provide a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-27 Guangyue Ji , Junren Shi