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The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) is an exotic quantum phenomenon originating from dissipation-less chiral channels at the sample edge. While the QAHE has been observed in magnetically doped topological insulators (TIs), exploiting…

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators are characterized by vanishing longitudinal resistance and quantized Hall resistance in the absence of an external magnetic field. Among them, high-Chern-number QAH insulators offer multiple…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Jiaheng Li , Quansheng Wu , Hongming Weng

We show that the quantum anomalous Hall effect almost always occurs in magnetic topological insulator thin films whenever the top and bottom surface layer magnetizations are parallel, independent of the interior layer magnetization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Chao Lei , Olle Heinonen , R. J. McQueeney , A. H. MacDonald

We present a theory of the Anomalous Hall Effect (AHE) in ferromagnetic (Ga,Mn)As in the regime when conduction is due to phonon-assisted hopping of holes between localized states in the impurity band. We show that the microscopic origin of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. A. Burkov , Leon Balents

The realization of fractional Chern insulators in moir\'e materials has sparked the search for further novel phases of matter in this platform. In particular, recent works have demonstrated the possibility of realizing quantum anomalous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Raul Perea-Causin , Hui Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators exhibit chiral edge channels characterized by vanishing longitudinal conductance and quantized Hall conductance of Ce2/h, wherein the Chern number C is an integer equal to the number of the parallel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-05 Peng Deng , Yulei Han , Peng Zhang , Su Kong Chong , Zhenhua Qiao , Kang L. Wang

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

The anomalous Hall effect (AHE) is a quantum coherent transport phenomenon that conventionally vanishes at elevated temperatures because of thermal dephasing. Therefore, it is puzzling that the AHE can survive in heavy metal…

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect, first proposed in the Haldane model, is a paradigmatic example of the application of band topology in condensed matter physics. The recent experimental discoveries of high Chern number QAH effect in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-12 Zhaochen Liu , Jing Wang

Following the recent observation of the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect in HgTe quantum wells, an important issue is to understand the effect of impurities on transport in the QSH regime. Using linear response and renormalization group…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-26 Joseph Maciejko , Chaoxing Liu , Yuval Oreg , Xiao-Liang Qi , Congjun Wu , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We analyze thermal transport in the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE), employing a Luttinger liquid model of edge states. Impurity mediated inter-channel scattering events are incorporated in a hydrodynamic description of heat and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 C. L. Kane , Matthew P. A. Fisher

By theoretically analyzing the recent temperature dependent transport data in pentalayer graphene [Lu et al., arXiv:2408.10203], we establish that the experimentally observed transition from low-temperature quantum anomalous Hall effect to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-01 Sankar Das Sarma , Ming Xie

We study the quantum Hall effect (QHE) in the three-dimensional topological insulator HgTe, which features topological Dirac-type surface states in a bulk gap opened by strain. Despite the co-existence of multiple carrier subsystems, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-25 S. Hartl , L. Freund , M. Kühn , J. Ziegler , E. Richter , W. Himmler , J. Bärenfänger , D. A. Kozlov , N. N. Mikhailov , J. Weis , D. Weiss

We consider the quantum Hall effect (QHE) in a system of interacting electrons. Our formalism is valid for systems in the presence of an external magnetic field, as well as for systems with a nontrivial band topology. That is, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-01 J. Miller , M. A. Zubkov

We study the quantum anomalous thermal Hall effect in a topological superconductor which possesses an integer bulk topological number, and supports Majorana excitations on the surface. To realize the quantum thermal Hall effect, a finite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-01 Yosuke Shimizu , Ai Yamakage , Kentaro Nomura

We report the observation of TEMPERATURE-INDUCED transitions between insulator, metal, and quantum-Hall behaviors for transport coefficients in the very dilute high mobility two-dimensional electron system in silicon. We consider the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 S. V. Kravchenko , Whitney Mason , J. E. Furneaux , J. M. Caulfield , J. Singleton , V. M. Pudalov

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

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

By studying the quantum Hall effect of stationary states with high values of injected current using a von Neumann lattice representation, we found that broadening of extended state bands due to a Hall electric field occurs and causes the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kenzo Ishikawa , Nobuki Maeda , Tetsuyuki Ochiai , Hisao Suzuki

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…

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