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In 2010, quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) in graphene was proposed in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling and ferromagnetic exchange field. After a decade's experimental exploration, the anomalous Hall conductance can only reach…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Yulei Han , Zhi Yan , Zeyu Li , Xiaohong Xu , Zhenyu Zhang , Qian Niu , Zhenhua Qiao

We propose realizing the quantum anomalous Hall effect by proximity coupling graphene to an antiferromagnetic insulator that provides both broken time-reversal symmetry and spin-orbit coupling. We illustrate our idea by performing ab initio…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-21 Zhenhua Qiao , Wei Ren , Hua Chen , L. Bellaiche , Zhenyu Zhang , A. H. MacDonald , Qian Niu

Optimizing the magnetic Zeeman-splitting term, specifically the magnetic gap of the topological surface states (TSSs), is a crucial issue and central challenge in advancing higher-temperature quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) states. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-04 Zhe Li , Feng Xue , Xin-Yi Tang , Xiyu Hong , Yang Chen , Xiao Feng , Ke He

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators, a new class of quantum matters, can support topologically protected helical edge modes inside bulk insulating gap, which can lead to dissipationless transport. A major obstacle to reach wide application…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-01-17 Hongming Weng , Xi Dai , Zhong Fang

We theoretically demonstrate that the in-plane magnetization induced quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) can be realized in atomic crystal layers of group-V elements with buckled honeycomb lattice. We first construct a general…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Peichen ZHong , Yafei Ren , Yulei Han , Liyuan Zhang , Zhenhua Qiao

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect in the films with nontrivial band structure accompanies the ferromagnetic transition in the system of magnetic dopants. Experimentally, the QAH transition manifests itself as a jump in the dependence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Z. Yue , M. E. Raikh

In quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators, the interior is insulating but electrons can travel with zero resistance along one-dimensional conducting paths known as chiral edge channels (CECs). These CECs have been predicted to be confined…

Combining tight-binding models and first principles calculations, we investigate the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect induced by intrinsic spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in buckled honeycomb lattice with sp orbitals in an external exchange…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-22 Hongbin Zhang , Frank Freimuth , Gustav Bihlmayer , Marjana Ležaić , Stefan Blügel , Yuriy Mokrousov

The quantized version of the anomalous Hall effect has been predicted to occur in magnetic topological insulators, but the experimental realization has been challenging. Here, we report the observation of the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH)…

The classic Thouless-Kohmoto-Nightingale-Nijs theorem dictates that a single electron band of a lattice can only harbor an integer quantum Hall conductance as a multiple of e^2/2h, while recent studies have pointed to the emergence of half…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 M. U. Muzaffar , Kai-Zhi Bai , Wei Qin , Guohua Cao , Yutong Yang , Shunhong Zhang , Ping Cui , Shun-Qing Shen , Zhenyu Zhang

Spin-polarized conducting edge currents counterpropagate in quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators and are protected against disorder-driven localizations by the time-reversal symmetry. Using these spin-currents for device applications require…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 Rajibul Islam , Ghulam Hussain , Rahul Verma , Mohammad Sadegh Talezadehlari , Zahir Muhammad , Bahadur Singh , Carmine Autieri

The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) is a topological state of matter with a quantized Hall resistance. It has been observed in some two-dimensional insulating materials such as magnetic topological insulator films and twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-06 Kai-Zhi Bai , Bo Fu , Zhenyu Zhang , Shun-Qing Shen

The anomalous Hall effect (AHE) occurs in magnetic systems and also unexpectedly in non-magnetic materials adjacent to magnetic insulators via the heterointerface interactions. However, the AHE in heterostructures induced by magnetic…

We predict the emergence a state of matter with intertwined ferromagnetism, charge order and topology in fractionally filled moir\'e superlattice bands. Remarkably, these quantum anomalous Hall crystals exhibit a quantized integer Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 D. N. Sheng , Aidan P. Reddy , Ahmed Abouelkomsan , Emil J. Bergholtz , Liang Fu

The discovery of the anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in bulk metallic antiferromagnets (AFMs) motivates the search of the same phenomenon in two-dimensional (2D) systems, where a quantized anomalous Hall conductance can in principle be…

Fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) effect, a lattice analogue of fractional quantum Hall effect, offers a unique pathway toward fault-tolerant quantum computation and deep insights into the interplay of topology and strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Wenqi Yang , Dawei Zhai , Wang Yao

Topological insulators are characterized by a nontrivial band topology driven by the spin-orbit coupling. To fully explore the fundamental science and application of topological insulators, material realization is indispensable. Here we…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-12-30 Di Xiao , Wenguang Zhu , Ying Ran , Naoto Nagaosa , Satoshi Okamoto

Based on density functional theory (DFT) calculations, we predict that a monolayer of OsCl$_3$---a layered material whose interlayer coupling is weaker than in graphite---possesses a quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulating phase generated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-05-10 Xian-Lei Sheng , Branislav K. Nikolic

Hopf insulators represent a unique class of topological insulators that exist exclusively in two-band systems and are inherently unstable upon the inclusion of additional bands. Meanwhile, recent studies have shown that non-Hermiticity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Daichi Nakamura , Kohei Kawabata

Quantum anomalous Hall insulator/superconductor heterostructures emerged as a competitive platform to realize topological superconductors with chiral Majorana edge states as shown in recent experiments [He et al. Science {\bf 357}, 294…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-03-21 Chui-zhen Chen , Ying-ming Xie , Jie Liu , Patrick A Lee , K. T. Law