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Chiral Majorana edge modes are theoretically proposed to perform braiding operations for the potential quantum computation. Here, we suggest a scheme to regulate trajectories of the chiral Majorana fermion based on a quantum anomalous Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-10 Qing Yan , Yan-Feng Zhou , Qing-Feng Sun

Chiral topological superconductors are expected to appear as intermediate states when a quantum anomalous Hall system is proximity coupled to an s-wave superconductor and the magnetization direction is reversed. In this paper we address the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Gaurav Chaudhary , Allan H. MacDonald

This is a short note presenting a repeated experiment of the half-quantized transport signature given by Majorana chiral modes living in a heterostructure formed by an s-wave superconductor and a quantum-anomalous-Hall insulator.

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-04-30 Peng Zhang , Lei Pan , Gen Yin , Qing-Lin He , Kang L. Wang

The quantum Hall (QH) effect, quantized Hall resistance combined with zero longitudinal resistance, is the characteristic experimental fingerprint of Chern insulators - topologically non-trivial states of two-dimensional matter with broken…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Cui-Zu Chang , Chao-Xing Liu , Allan H. MacDonald

A quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulator coupled to an s-wave superconductor is predicted to harbor a topological superconducting phase, the elementary excitations of which (i.e. Majorana fermions) can form topological qubits upon…

Magnetically doped topological insulators (TIs) exhibit two distinct phases: the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) phase when the Fermi level resides within the surface gap, and a metallic phase outside the gap. The QAH phase hosts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Le Yi , Emma Steinebronn , Asmaul Smitha Rashid , Nitin Samarth , Ramy El-Ganainy , Sahin L. Ozdemir , Morteza Kayyalha

We present a detailed theoretical study of chiral topological superconductor phases in proximity-superconducting graphene systems based on an effective model inspired by DFT simulations. Inducing s-wave superconductivity to quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-10 Petra Högl , Tobias Frank , Denis Kochan , Martin Gmitra , Jaroslav Fabian

Half-integer conductance, the signature of Majorana edge modes, has been recently observed in a quantum anomalous Hall insulator/superconductor heterostructure. Here, we analyze a scheme for gate-tunable control of degenerate ground states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-10 Nima Djavid , Gen Yin , Yafis Barlas , Roger Lake

Heterostructures comprised of a magnetic topological insulator (MTI) placed in the proximity of an $s$-wave superconductor have emerged as a platform for the practical realization of Majorana bound states (MBSs). More specifically, it has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Eduárd Zsurka , Daniele Di Miceli , Julian Legendre , Llorenç Serra , Detlev Grützmacher , Thomas L. Schmidt , Kristof Moors

By breaking the time-reversal-symmetry in three-dimensional topological insulators with introduction of spontaneous magnetization or application of magnetic field, the surface states become gapped, leading to quantum anomalous Hall effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 R. Yoshimi , K. Yasuda , A. Tsukazaki , K. S. Takahashi , N. Nagaosa , M. Kawasaki , Y. Tokura

We explore potentials that break time-reversal symmetry to confine the surface states of 3D topological insulators into quantum wires and quantum dots. A magnetic domain wall on a ferromagnet insulator cap layer provides interfacial states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-06 Gerson J. Ferreira , Daniel Loss

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect is a quantum Hall effect that occurs without the need of external magnetic field. A system composed of multiple parallel QAH layers is an effective high Chern number QAH insulator and the key to the…

A quantum phase transition arises from competition between different ground states and is typically accessed by varying a single physical parameter near absolute zero temperature. The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect with high Chern…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Ling-Jie Zhou , Deyi Zhuo , Ruobing Mei , Yi-Fan Zhao , Kaijie Yang , Ruoxi Zhang , Zijie Yan , Han Tay , Moses H. W. Chan , Chao-Xing Liu , Cui-Zu Chang

We study the practicability of achieving quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect with field-tunable Chern number in a magnetically doped, topologically trivial insulating thin film. Specifically in a candidate material,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-06 Le Quy Duong , Hsin Lin , Wei-Feng Tsai , Y. P. Feng

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 study the critical properties of the in-plane magnetic field-induced quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) plateau transition in axion insulators. Take even septuple layer film MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ as a concrete example, we find the mirror symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-15 Jinlong Zhang , Zhaochen Liu , Jing Wang

In $strong$ topological insulators protected surface states are always manifest, while in $weak$ topological insulators (WTI) the corresponding metallic surface states are either manifest or hidden, depending on the orientation of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-02 Akihiko Matsumoto , Takashi Arita , Yositake Takane , Yukinori Yoshimura , Ken-Ichiro Imura

Atomically thin topological materials are attracting growing attention for their potential to radically transform classical and quantum electronic device concepts. Amongst them is the quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulator - a two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 Michael S. Lodge , Shengyuan A. Yang , Shantanu Mukherjee , Bent Weber

We propose a method to create two-dimensional topological superconductors with a heterostructure of ferromagnet (FM), topological insulator (TI) thin film and superconductor, in which the two surfaces of the TI thin film are treated as a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-10-01 James Jun He , Tian Liang , Yukio Tanaka , Naoto Nagaosa

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