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Three-dimensional (3D) topological insulators (TIs) are candidate materials for various electronic and spintronic devices due to their strong spin-orbit coupling and unique surface electronic structure. Rapid, low-cost preparation of…

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators are two-dimensional electronic materials that have a bulk band gap like an ordinary insulator but have topologically protected pairs of edge modes of opposite chiralities. To date, experimental studies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Kaifei Kang , Bowen Shen , Yichen Qiu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jie Shan , Kin Fai Mak

Dual quantum spin Hall insulator (QSHI) is a newly discovered topological state in the 2D material TaIrTe$_4$, exhibiting both a traditional $Z_2$ band gap at charge neutrality point and a van Hove singularity (VHS) induced correlated $Z_2$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-05 Xiangyang Liu , Junwen Lai , Jie Zhan , Tianye Yu , Wujun Shi , Peitao Liu , Xing-Qiu Chen , Yan Sun

The search for large band gap systems with dissipationless edge states is essential to developing materials that function under a wide range of temperatures. Two-dimensional (2D) topological insulators (TIs) have recently attracted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Lauryn Wu , Kunming Gu , Qiliang Li

Two-dimensional stanene is a promising candidate material for realizing room-temperature quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect. Monolayer stanene has recently been fabricated by molecular beam epitaxy, but shows metallic features on…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-08-26 Yong Xu , Peizhe Tang , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Quantum spin-hall insulator (QSHI) processes nontrivial topology. We notice that the electronic structures of some particular QSHIs are favorable for realization of excitonic insulators (EIs). Using first-principles many-body perturbation…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-04 Huaiyuan Yang , Jiaxi Zeng , Yuelin Shao , Yuanfeng Xu , Xi Dai , Xin-Zheng Li

The search for inversion asymmetric topological insulators (IATIs) persists as an effect for realizing new topological phenomena. However, so for only a few IATIs have been discovered and there is no IATI exhibiting a large band gap…

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

Quantum Spin Hall (QSH) insulators possess distinct helical in-gap states, enabling their edge states to act as one-dimensional conducting channels when backscattering is prohibited by time-reversal symmetry. However, it remains challenging…

The quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE), a hallmark of topological insulators, enables dissipationless, spin-polarized edge transport and has been predicted in various two-dimensional materials. However, challenges such as limited scalability,…

Despite many years of efforts, attempts to reach the quantum regime of topological surface states (TSS) on an electrically tunable topological insulator (TI) platform have so far failed on binary TI compounds such as Bi2Se3 due to high…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-12 N. Koirala , M. Salehi , J. Moon , S. Oh

Topologically protected edge channels show prospects for quantum devices. They have been found experimentally in two-dimensional (2D) quantum spin Hall insulators (QSHIs), weak topological insulators and higher-order topological insulators…

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

A two-dimensional (2D) topological insulator (TI) exhibits the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect, in which topologically protected spin-polarized conducting channels exist at the sample edges. Experimental signatures of the QSH effect have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 Yanmeng Shi , Joshua Kahn , Ben Niu , Zaiyao Fei , Bosong Sun , Xinghan Cai , Brian A. Francisco , Di Wu , Zhi-Xun Shen , Xiaodong Xu , David H. Cobden , Yong-Tao Cui

Quantum spin-Hall insulators (QSHIs), i.e., two-dimensional topological insulators (TIs) with a symmetry-protected band inversion, have attracted considerable scientific interest in recent years. In this work, we have computed the…

Uniform and large area synthesis of bulk insulating ultrathin films is an important subject toward applications of a surface of three dimensional topological insulators (3D-TIs) in various electronic devices. Here we report epitaxial growth…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-17 Ngoc Han Tu , Yoichi Tanabe , Yosuke Satake , Khuong Kim Huynh , Le Huu Phuoc , Stephane Yu Matsushita , Katsumi Tanigaki

The quantum spin Hall insulator (QSHI) state has been demonstrated in two semiconductor systems - HgTe/CdTe quantum wells (QWs) and InAs/GaSb QW bilayers. Unlike the HgTe/CdTe QWs, the inverted band gap in InAs/GaSb QW bilayers does not…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-01 S. S. Krishtopenko , F. Teppe

The layered antiferromagnetic MnBi2Te4 films have been proposed to be an intrinsic quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulator with a large gap. To realize this proposal, it is crucial to open a magnetic gap of surface states. However, recent…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-02 Huixia Fu , Chao-Xing Liu , Binghai Yan

Motivated by the goal of realizing topological phases in thin films and heterostructures of correlated oxides, we propose here a quantum anomalous Hall insulator (QAHI) in ultrathin films of double perovskites based on mixed 3d-5d or 3d-4d…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-12 Santu Baidya , Umesh V. Waghmare , Arun Paramekanti , Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) state is a two-dimensional bulk insulator with a non-zero Chern number in absence of external magnetic fields. Protected gapless chiral edge states enable dissipationless current transport in electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-25 Hai-Jun Zhang , Xiao Zhang , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Insulating substrates are crucial for electrical transport study and room temperature application of topological insulator films at thickness of only several nanometers. High quality quantum well films of Bi2Se3, a typical three-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-24 Cui-Zu Chang , Ke He , Min-Hao Liu , Zuo-Cheng Zhang , Xi Chen , Li-Li Wang , Xu-Cun Ma , Ya-Yu Wang , Qi-Kun Xue