English
Related papers

Related papers: Antiferromagnetic Chern insulators in non-centrosy…

200 papers

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

We propose a new pathway to the quantized anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) by coupling an altermagnet to a topological crystalline insulator (TCI). The former gaps the topological surface states of the TCI, thereby realizing the QAHE in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Xuance Jiang , Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Deyu Lu , Jennifer Cano

A series of recent experimental works on twisted MoTe$_2$ homobilayers have unveiled an abundance of exotic states in this system. Valley-polarized quantum anomalous Hall states have been identified at hole doping of $\nu = -1$, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 Xiaoyu Liu , Chong Wang , Xiao-Wei Zhang , Ting Cao , Di Xiao

In this work, we propose an exactly solvable two-dimensional lattice model of strongly correlated electrons that realizes a quantum anomalous Hall insulator with Chern number $\mathcal{C}=1$. First, we show that the interplay of ionic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-13 Marcin M. Wysokiński , Wojciech Brzezicki

To assess prior mean-field claims that the interacting Kane-Mele model hosts a novel $z-$antiferromagnetic (AFM) Chern insulating phase for a wide range of sub-lattice potentials, we analyze the Kane-Mele-Hubbard model in the presence of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-29 Peizhi Mai , Jinchao Zhao , Philip W. Phillips

We propose a new mechanism for quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect in the AB stacked MoTe$_2$/WSe$_2$ system. Based on the observation that the inter-layer tunneling is suppressed in the AB stacking, we consider a model with two layers…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-15 Zhihuan Dong , Ya-Hui Zhang

We propose a scheme to realize time-reversal symmetry-broken quantum spin Hall insulators using bilayer honeycomb lattices, combining intrinsic spin-orbit coupling, C-type antiferromagnetic ordering, and staggered potentials. The C-type…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-15 Lizhou Liu , Cheng-Ming Miao , Qing-Feng Sun , Ying-Tao Zhang

Over a long period of exploration, the successful observation of quantized version of anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in thin film of magnetically-doped topological insulator completed a quantum Hall trio---quantum Hall effect (QHE), quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-18 Hongming Weng , Rui Yu , Xiao Hu , Xi Dai , Zhong Fang

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) phase is a two-dimensional bulk ferromagnetic insulator with a nonzero Chern number in presence of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) but absence of applied magnetic fields. Associated metallic chiral edge states host…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-28 Jian Zhou , Qi-Feng Liang , Hongming Weng , Y. B. Chen , Shu-Hua Yao , Yan-Feng Chen , Jinming Dong , Guang-Yu Guo

There is strong interest in discovering or designing wide gap Chern insulators. Here we follow a Chern insulator to trivial Mott insulator transition versus interaction strength U in a honeycomb lattice Fe-based transition metal oxide,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-26 Young-Joon Song , Kyo-Hoon Ahn , W. E. Pickett , K. -W. Lee

Recently, the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) has been theoretically proposed in compensated antiferromagnetic systems by using the magnetic topological insulator model [see arXiv:2404.13305 (2024)]. However, the related and systematic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-08 Zeyu Li , Yulei Han , Zhenhua Qiao

Antiferromagnetic (AFM) topological insulators (TIs), which host magnetically gapped Dirac-cone surface states and exhibit many exotic physical phenomena, have attracted great attention. Here, we find that the coupled surface states can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-17 Yiliang Fan , Huaiqiang Wang , Peizhe Tang , Shuichi Murakami , Xiangang Wan , Haijun Zhang , Dingyu Xing

The understanding of the Chern insulator and anomalous quantum Hall effect (AQHE) in terms of chiral edge states in confined systems is the first aim of the paper. The model we use consists in a diatomic square lattice with hopping to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 B. Ostahie , M. Nita , A. Aldea

Chern insulator or quantum anomalous Hall state is a topological state with integer Hall conductivity but in absence of Landau level. It had been well established on various two-dimensional lattices with periodic structure. Here, we report…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Ai-Lei He , Lu-Rong Ding , Yuan Zhou , Yi-Fei Wang , Chang-De Gong

We theoretically report that, with \textit{in-plane} magnetization, the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) can be realized in two-dimensional atomic crystal layers with preserved inversion symmetry but broken out-of-plane mirror…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-21 Yafei Ren , Junjie Zeng , Xinzhou Deng , Fei Yang , Hui Pan , Zhenhua Qiao

In this Letter we present a comprehensive study of topological magnon bands and thermal Hall effect in non-collinear antiferromagnetic systems on the honeycomb lattice with an intrinsic Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. We theoretically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-14 S. A. Owerre

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

In twisted MoTe$_{2}$, latest transport measurement has reported observation of quantum anomalous Hall effect at hole filling $\nu=-1$, which undergoes a topological phase transition to a trivial ferromagnet as layer hybridization gets…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-15 Feng-Ren Fan , Cong Xiao , Wang Yao

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

We demonstrate that a Chern insulator could be realized on a real two-dimensional lattice of an organic Dirac semimetal {\alpha}-(BEDT-TTF)2I3 by introducing potential and magnetic modulations in a unit cell. It is a…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-22 Toshihito Osada