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In magnetic topological insulators, a phase transition between a quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) and an Anderson localization phase can be triggered by the rotation of an applied magnetic field. Without the scattering paths along magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Kristof Moors , Gen Yin

Doping a topological insulator (TI) film with transition metal ions can break its time-reversal symmetry and lead to the realization of the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect. Prior studies have shown that the longitudinal resistance of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Shu-Wei Wang , Di Xiao , Ziwei Dou , Moda Cao , Yi-Fan Zhao , Nitin Samarth , Cui-Zu Chang , Malcolm R. Connolly , Charles G. Smith

The quantum anomalous Hall system with Chern number 2 can be destroyed by sufficiently strong disorder. During its process towards localization, it was found that the electronic states will be directly localized to an Anderson insulator…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-12 Zhi-Gang Song , Yan-Yang Zhang , Jun-Tao Song , Shu-Shen Li

The 2-- to 1--dimensional crossover of the localisation length of electrons confined to a disordered quantum wire of finite width $L_y$ is studied in a model of electrons moving in the potential of uncorrelated impurities. An analytical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Kettemann

Reentrant integer quantum Hall (RIQH) states are believed to be correlated electron solid phases, though their microscopic description remains unclear. As bias current increases, longitudinal and Hall resistivities measured for these states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-31 Alexander V. Rossokhaty , Silvia Lüscher , Joshua A. Folk , John D. Watson , Geoffrey C. Gardner , Michael J. Manfra

We study theoretically the competition between directional asymmetric coupling and disorder in a one-dimensional array of quantum emitters chirally coupled through a waveguide mode. Our calculation reveals highly nontrivial phase diagram…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-10-11 G. Fedorovich , D. Kornovan , A. Poddubny , M. Petrov

Chiral edge states are the fingerprint of the bulk-edge correspondence in a Chern insulator. Co-propagating edge modes, known as antichiral edge states, have been predicted to occur in the so-called modified Haldane model describing a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-06 Marwa Mannaï , Eduardo V. Castro , Sonia Haddad

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

The quantum spin Hall (QSH) state, observed in a zero magnetic field in HgTe quantum wells, respects the time-reversal symmetry and is distinct from quantum Hall (QH) states. We show that the QSH state persists in strong quantizing fields…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-23 G. Tkachov , E. M. Hankiewicz

The electronic eigenstates of a quantum Hall (QH) system are chiral states. Strong inter-Landau-band mixings among these states can occur when the bandwidth is comparable to the spacing of two adjacent Landau bands. We show that mixing of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Gang Xiong , Shi-Dong Wang , Qian Niu , De-Cheng Tian , X. R. Wang

The nonlinear behavior of the Hall resistivity at low magnetic fields in single quantum well GaAs/In$_x$Ga$_{1-x}$As/GaAs heterostructures with degenerated electron gas is studied. It has been found that this anomaly is accompanied by the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-07-11 G. M. Minkov , A. V. Germanenko , O. E. Rut , A. A. Sherstobitov , B. N. Zvonkov

We study theoretically edge transport of a fractional quantum Hall liquid, in the presence of a quantum dot inside the Hall bar with well controlled electron density and Landau level filling factor \nu, and show that such transport studies…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-04-19 Hsin-Hua Lai , Kun Yang

In recent breakthrough experiments, twisted moir\'e layers of transition metal dichalcogenides are found to manifest both integer (IQAHE) and fractional (FQAHE) quantum anomalous Hall effects in zero applied magnetic field because of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 Sankar Das Sarma , Ming Xie

Quantum transport properties in quantum Hall wires in the presence of spatially correlated disordered magnetic fields are investigated numerically. It is found that the correlation drastically changes the transport properties associated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tohru Kawarabayashi , Yoshiyuki Ono , Tomi Ohtsuki , Stefan Kettemann , Alexander Struck , Bernhard Kramer

To fully appreciate the impacts that the discovery of the quantum Hall effect had on electrical metrology, it may benefit the reader to cultivate a general understanding of the phenomenon. Two-dimensional electron systems can exhibit many…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-15 Albert F. Rigosi

This review presents experimental results on the inter-edge-state transport in the quantum Hall effect, mostly obtained in the regime of high imbalance. The application of a special geometry makes it possible to perform I-V spectroscopy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-19 E. V. Deviatov , A. Lorke

Employing the Bloch eigenmode matching approach, we numerically study the evolution of individual quantum Hall edge states with respect to disorder. As shown by the two-parameter renormalization group flow of the Hall and Thouless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-15 Kai Tong Wang , Fuming Xu , Yanxia Xing , Hong Kang Zhao

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators exhibit chiral edge channels characterized by vanishing longitudinal conductance and quantized Hall conductance of Ce2/h, wherein the Chern number C is an integer equal to the number of the parallel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-05 Peng Deng , Yulei Han , Peng Zhang , Su Kong Chong , Zhenhua Qiao , Kang L. Wang

We consider a quantum Hall (QH) region in contact with a superconductor (SC), i.e., a QH-SC junction. Due to successive Andreev reflections, the QH-SC interface hosts hybridized electron and hole edge states called chiral Andreev edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-23 Anthony David , Julia S. Meyer , Manuel Houzet

We investigate integer and fractional quantum Hall states in quantum point contacts (QPCs) of different geometries, defined in AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructures employing different doping and screening techniques. We find that, even in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-11 S. Baer , C. Rössler , E. C. de Wiljes , P. -L. Ardelt , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin , C. Reichl , W. Wegscheider