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An interplay of spin-orbit coupling and intrinsic magnetism is known to give rise to the quantum anomalous Hall and topological magnetoelectric effects under certain conditions. Their realization could open access to low power consumption…

Magnetic topological insulators in the quantum anomalous Hall regime host ballistic chiral edge channels. When proximitized by an $s$-wave superconductor, these edge states offer the potential for realizing topological superconductivity and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-24 Declan Burke , Dennis Heffels , Kristof Moors , Peter Schüffelgen , Detlev Grützmacher , Malcolm R. Connolly

The discovery of the quantum Hall (QH) effect led to the realization of a topological electronic state with dissipationless currents circulating in one direction along the edge of a two dimensional electron layer under a strong magnetic…

Quantized Hall conductance is a generic feature of two dimensional electronic systems with broken time reversal symmetry. In the quantum anomalous Hall state recently discovered in magnetic topological insulators, time reversal symmetry is…

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect in magnetic topological insulator (TI) is a novel transport phenomenon in which the Hall resistance reaches the quantum plateau in the absence of external magnetic field. Recently, this exotic effect has…

In this work, we demonstrate that making a cut (a narrow vacuum regime) in the bulk of a quantum anomalous Hall insulator (QAHI) creates a topologically protected single helical channel with counter-propagating electron modes, and inducing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-18 Ying-Ming Xie , Xue-Jian Gao , Tai-Kai Ng , K. T. Law

Interfacing the quantum anomalous Hall insulator with a conventional superconductor is known to be a promising manner for realizing a topological superconductor, which has been continuously pursued for years. Such a proximity route depends…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-04 Yu Huang , Yu Fu , Peng Zhang , Kang L. Wang , Qing Lin He

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect is a novel topological spintronic phenomenon arising from inherent magnetization and spin-orbit coupling. Various theoretical and experimental efforts have been devoted in search of robust intrinsic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-01-18 Chengxi Huang , Jian Zhou , Haiping Wu , Kaiming Deng , Puru Jena , Erjun Kan

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect holds fundamental importance in topological physics and technological promise for electronics. It is generally believed that the QAH effect can only be realized in insulators. In this Letter, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Yu-Hao Wan , Peng-Yi Liu , Qing-Feng Sun

In topological insulators doped with magnetic ions, spin-orbit coupling and ferromagnetism give rise to the quantum anomalous Hall effect. Here we show that in s-wave superconductors with strong spin-orbit coupling, magnetic impurity ions…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-02-25 Kun Jiang , Xi Dai , Ziqiang Wang

We propose that a quantum anomalous Hall insulator (QAHI) can be realized in a nanopatterned two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with a small in-plane magnetic field and a high carrier density. The Berry curvatures originating from the…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-08-25 Yongping Zhang , Chuanwei Zhang

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulator is the key material to study emergent topological quantum effects, but its ultralow working temperature limits experiments. Here, by first-principles calculations, we find a family of stable…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-26 Yang Li , Jiaheng Li , Yang Li , Meng Ye , Fawei Zheng , Zetao Zhang , Jingheng Fu , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

The Hall effect, the anomalous Hall effect and the spin Hall effect are fundamental transport processes in solids arising from the Lorentz force and the spin-orbit coupling respectively. The quantum versions of the Hall effect and the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-13 Rui Yu , Wei Zhang , H. J. Zhang , S. C. Zhang , Xi Dai , Zhong Fang

In magnetic topological phases of matter, the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect is an emergent phenomenon driven by ferromagnetic doping, magnetic proximity effects and strain engineering. The realization of QAH states with multiple…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 R. Adhikari , V. V. Volobuev , B. Faina , G. Springholz , A. Bonanni

Magnetic topological insulators (TIs) provide a highly tunable platform for engineering quantum states that emerge from the interplay between topology and magnetism. In this review article, we summarize experimental progress over the past…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Deyi Zhuo , Han Tay , Cui-Zu Chang

The quantum anomalous Hall effect in magnetic topological insulators has been recognized as a promising platform for applications in quantum metrology. The primary reason for this is the electronic conductance quantization at zero external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Kajetan M. Fijalkowski , Nan Liu , Martin Klement , Steffen Schreyeck , Karl Brunner , Charles Gould , Laurens W. Molenkamp

We show that in the proximity of s-wave superconductors, the magnetic topological surface states can transform into Majorana surface state, featuring a single gapless Majorana cone with parity anomaly when the superconducting pairing gap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Yu-Hao Wan , Qing-Feng Sun

An intriguing observation on the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) in magnetic topological insulators (MTIs) is the dissipative edge states, where quantized Hall resistance is accompanied by nonzero longitudinal resistance. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-05 Yanxia Xing , Fuming Xu , Qing-feng Sun , Jian Wang , Yu-gui Yao

We describe designs for the realization of topological Majorana qubits in terms of proximitized topological insulator nanoribbons pierced by a uniform axial magnetic field. This platform holds promise for particularly robust Majorana bound…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-18 Jan Manousakis , Alexander Altland , Dmitry Bagrets , Reinhold Egger , Yoichi Ando

In a nanowire (NW) of a three-dimensional topological insulator (TI), the quantum-confinement of topological surface states leads to a peculiar subband structure that is useful for generating Majorana bound states. Top-down fabrication of…