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The quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect, characterized by topologically protected spin-polarized edge states, was recently demonstrated in monolayers of the transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) WTe$_2$. However, the robustness of this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-07 Felix Lüpke , Dacen Waters , Anh D. Pham , Jiaqiang Yan , David G. Mandrus , Panchapakesan Ganesh , Benjamin M. Hunt

Quantum Hall (QH) states of 2D single layer optical lattices are examined using Bose-Hubbard model (BHM) in presence of artificial gauge field. We study the QH states of both the homogeneous and inhomogeneous systems. For the homogeneous…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-08-14 Rukmani Bai , Soumik Bandyopadhyay , Sukla Pal , K. Suthar , D. Angom

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

Inner edge state with spin and valley degrees of freedom is a promising candidate to design a dissipationless device due to the topological protection. The central challenge for the application of inner edge state is to generate and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Hang Xie , Xiao-Long Lü , Jia-En Yang

Antiferromagnetic (AFM) spintronics provides a route towards energy-efficient and ultrafast device applications. Achieving anomalous valley Hall effect (AVHE) in AFM monolayers is thus of considerable interest for both fundamental condensed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-22 San-Dong Guo , Wei Xu , Yang Xue , Gangqiang Zhu , Yee Sin Ang

We study perfect valley polarization in a molybdenum disulfide MoS2 nanoribbon monolayer using two bands Hamiltonian model and non-equilibrium Green's function method. The device consists of a one-dimensional quantum wire of MoS2 monolayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-21 A. Heshmati , H. Simchi , M. Esmaeilzadeh

Two-dimensional topological insulators possess two counter propagating edge channels with op- posite spin direction. Recent experimental progress allowed to create ferromagnetic topological insulators realizing a quantum anomalous Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-06 Matthias Götte , Michael Joppe , Thomas Dahm

We test the valley-filtering capabilities of a quantum dot inscribed by locally straining an $\alpha$-$\mathcal{T}_3$ lattice. Specifically, we consider an out-of-plane Gaussian bump in the center of a four-terminal configuration and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-16 Alexander Filusch , Alan R. Bishop , Avadh Saxena , Gerhard Wellein , Holger Fehske

It has been demonstrated that topological quantum spin Hall (QSH) state exist in twisted bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides. However, a comprehensive theoretical characterization of the topological edge states remains a topic of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Hao He , Zhao Gong , Shuai Li , Jian-Jun Liu , Hui-Ying Mu , Xing-Tao An

Two dimensional electronic systems under strong magnetic field form quantum Hall (QH) edge states, which propagate along the boundary of a sample with a dissipationless current. Engineering the pathway of these propagating one-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-17 Ke Wang , Achim Harzheim , Ji Ung Lee , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Philip Kim

A quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulator is a novel two-dimensional quantum state of matter that features quantized Hall conductance in the absence of magnetic field, resulting from topologically protected dissipationless edge states that bridge…

Valleytronic materials, characterized by local extrema (valley) in their bands, and topological insulators have separately attracted great interest recently. However, the interplay between valleytronic and topological properties in one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-27 Tong Zhou , Jiayong Zhang , Hua Jiang , Igor Zutic , Zhongqin Yang

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

We study edge dynamics in the presence of interlayer tunneling, parallel magnetic field, and various types of disorder for two infinite sequences of quantum Hall states in symmetric bilayers. These sequences begin with the 110 and 331…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. D. Naud , Leonid P. Pryadko , S. L. Sondhi

The quantum spin Hall (QSH) state is a genuinely new state of matter characterized by a non-trivial topology of its band structure. Its key feature is conducting edge channels whose spin polarization has potential for spintronic and quantum…

The extensive research of two-dimensional layered materials has revealed that valleys, as energy extrema in momentum space, could offer a new degree of freedom for carrying information. Based on this concept, researchers have predicted…

While the quantum spin Hall effect leverages two-dimensional topological states to manipulate spin without dissipation, layertonics extends this paradigm to three dimension by enabling control over the layer degree of freedom. Topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Jiaojiao Zhou , Hong Hu , Jiangying Yu , Lin Xu , Shu-guang Cheng , Hua Jiang

Based on first-principles calculations, we find novel valley-polarized quantum anomalous Hall (VP-QAH) phases with a large gap-0.19 eV at an appropriate buckled angle and tunable topological phase transitions driven by the spontaneous…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-04-29 Cheng-Cheng Liu , Jin-Jian Zhou , Yugui Yao

In this work, we investigate spin and valley transport properties of a WSe$_2$ monolayer placed on top of a ferromagnetic insulator. We are interested in controlling the transport properties by applying external potentials to the system. To…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-16 D. Zambrano , P. A. Orellana , L. Rosales , A. Latgé

A valley filter capable of generating a valley-polarized current is a crucial element in valleytronics, yet its implementation remains challenging. Here, we propose a valley filter made of a graphene bilayer which exhibits a 1D moir\'{e}…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-19 Kai Shao , Hao Geng , Erfu Liu , Jose L. Lado , Wei Chen , D. Y. Xing