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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

Discovery of novel topological orders of condensed matters is of a significant interest in both fundamental and applied physics due to the associated quantum conductance behaviors and unique symmetry-protected backscattering-immune…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Cheng He , Xu Ni , Hao Ge , Xiao-Chen Sun , Yan-Bin Chen , Ming-Hui Lu , Xiao-Ping Liu , Liang Feng , Yan-Feng Chen

Engineering synthetic materials that mimic the remarkable complexity of living organisms is a fundamental challenge in science and technology. We study the spatiotemporal patterns that emerge when an active nematicfilm of microtubules and…

When phonons couple to fermions in 2D semimetals, the interaction may turn the system into an insulator. There are several insulating phases in which the time reversal and the sublattice symmetries are spontaneously broken. Examples are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-12 Andreas Sinner , Klaus Ziegler

We investigate the emergence of topological Hall-like (THE-like) signals in disordered multidomain ferromagnets. Non-monotonic behavior in Hall resistivity, commonly attributed to topological spin textures such as skyrmions, is produced in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Houssam Sabri , Benjamin E. Carlson , Sergey S. Pershoguba , Jiadong Zang

We studied electronic band structure and topological property of a topological insulator thin film under a moir\'e superlattice potential to search for two-dimensional (2D) $\mathbb Z_2$ non-trivial isolated mini-bands. To model this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Kaijie Yang , Zian Xu , Yanjie Feng , Frank Schindler , Yuanfeng Xu , Zhen Bi , B. Andrei Bernevig , Peizhe Tang , Chao-Xing Liu

Charge carriers in Dirac/Weyl semi-metals exhibit a relativistic-like behavior. In this work we propose a novel type of intrinsic half-integer Quantum Hall effect in 2D materials, thereby also offering a topological protection mechanism for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-05 D. Dudal , F. Matusalem , A. J. Mizher , A. R. Rocha , C. Villavicencio

Active fluids exhibit spontaneous flows with complex spatiotemporal structure, which have been observed in bacterial suspensions, sperm cells, cytoskeletal suspensions, self-propelled colloids, and cell tissues. Despite occurring in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-10-05 Ricard Alert , Jaume Casademunt , Jean-François Joanny

We show that a weak hexagonal periodic potential could transform a two-dimensional electron gas with an even-denominator magnetic filling factor to a quantum anomalous Hall insulator of composite fermions, giving rise to fractionally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Yinhan Zhang , Junren Shi

It is shown that the presence of matrix dipole moments induced by external electric fields can modify the Hall response in two dimensional Topological insulators. In the case of the Quantum Anomalous Hall effect the induced transverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Alberto Cortijo

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 quantised Hall effect, and its subsequent topological explanation, demonstrated the important role topology can play in determining the properties of quantum systems. This realisation led to the development of…

We study the quantum phases of spinless fermion at one-third filling on a Kagome lattice featuring a quadratic band touching Fermi point. In the presence of weak first and second nearest-neighbor repulsive interactions ($V_1$ and $V_2$), we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-05 Yafei Ren , T. -S. Zeng , W. Zhu , D. N. Sheng

Dirac fermions are actively investigated, and the discovery of the quantized anomalous Hall effect of massive Dirac fermions has spurred the promise of low-energy electronics. Some materials hosting Dirac fermions are natural platforms for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 Hong Liu , Weizhe Edward Liu , Dimitrie Culcer

The quantum anomalous Hall effect is a intriguing topological nontrivial phase arising from spontaneous magnetization and spin-orbit coupling. However, the tremendously harsh realizing requirements of the quantum anomalous Hall effects in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-18 Ping Li , Tian-Yi Cai

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) state is a two-dimensional bulk insulator with a non-zero Chern number in absence of external magnetic fields. Protected gapless chiral edge states enable dissipationless current transport in electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-25 Hai-Jun Zhang , Xiao Zhang , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Moir\'e materials provide fertile ground for the correlated and topological quantum phenomena. Among them, the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect, in which the Hall resistance is quantized even under zero magnetic field, is a direct…

The anomalous Hall effect in type-II conventional and high-Tc superconductors is investigated based on the proposed novel theory of the thermally activated motion of vortex bundles over a directional-dependent energy barrier. Our…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Wei Yeu Chen , Ming Ju Chou

We theoretically study the finite-size effects in the dynamical response of a quantum anomalous Hall insulator in the disk geometry. Semi-analytic and numerical results are obtained for the wavefunctions and energies of the disk within a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 Junjie Zeng , Tao Hou , Zhenhua Qiao , Wang-Kong Tse

Understanding topological phases of matter is essential for advancing both the fundamental theory and practical applications of condensed matter physics. Recently, a theoretical framework for a quantum Hall system with an expanding edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Yuuki Sugiyama , Tokiro Numasawa