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Topological band structures in electronic systems like topological insulators and semimetals give rise to highly unusual physical properties. Analogous topological effects have also been discussed in bosonic systems, but the novel phenomena…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-06 Hoi Chun Po , Yasaman Bahri , Ashvin Vishwanath

Three-dimensional topological insulators have protected Dirac-cone surface states. In this paper we propose magnetic field induced topological insulator thin film ordered states in which coherence is established spontaneously between top…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 Dagim Tilahun , Byounghak Lee , E. M. Hankiewicz , A. H. MacDonald

Topological insulators are crystalline materials that have revolutionized our ability to control wave transport. They provide us with unidirectional channels that are immune to obstacles, defects or local disorder, and can even survive some…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-12-12 Zhe Zhang , Pierre Delplace , Romain Fleury

In a two-dimensional electron gas, the quantized Hall conductance can be induced by a strong magnetic field, known as the quantum Hall effect, and it can also result from the strong exchange coupling of magnetic ions, dubbed as the "quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Xin Liu , Hsiu-Chuan Hsu , Chao-Xing Liu

Motivated by the observation of the fractional quantum Hall effect in graphene, we consider the effective field theory of relativistic quantum Hall states. We find that, beside the Chern-Simons term, the effective action also contains a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-06 Siavash Golkar , Matthew M. Roberts , Dam Thanh Son

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect generates quantized electric charge Hall conductance without external magnetic field. It requires both nontrivial band topology and time-reversal symmetry (TRS) breaking. In most cases, one could break…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-07-06 Haowei Xu , Jian Zhou , Ju Li

The realization of the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect without magnetic doping attracts intensive interest since magnetically doped topological insulators usually possess inhomogeneity of ferromagnetic order. Here, we propose a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-01-11 Zhen Ning , Baobing Zheng , Dong-Hui Xu , Rui Wang

Anomalous Hall effect (AHE), a protocol of various low-power dissipation quantum phenomena and a fundamental precursor of intriguing topological phases of matter, is usually observed in ferromagnetic materials with orthogonal configuration…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-27 Jin Cao , Wei Jiang , Xiao-Ping Li , Daifeng Tu , Jiadong Zhou , Jianhui Zhou , Yugui Yao

Topological phases with insulating bulk and gapless surface or edge modes have attracted much attention because of their fundamental physics implications and potential applications in dissipationless electronics and spintronics. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-18 Yafei Ren , Zhenhua Qiao , Qian Niu

Recent experiments on pentalayer rhombohedral graphene moir\'e superlattices have observed the quantum anomalous Hall effect at moir\'e filling factor of $\nu = 1$ and various fractional values. These phenomena are attributed to a flat…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-30 Koji Kudo , Ryota Nakai , Kentaro Nomura

Recent technological advances allow fabricating ultraclean two-dimensional electronic systems where the electron mean free path due to static disorder and phonons is much larger compared to the conducting channel width. It makes possible to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-08 K. K. Grigoryan , D. S. Zohrabyan , M. M. Glazov

Magnetic topological states refer to a class of exotic phases in magnetic materials with their non-trivial topological property determined by magnetic spin configurations. An example of such states is the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) state,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Yi-Fan Zhao , Ruoxi Zhang , Zi-Ting Sun , Ling-Jie Zhou , Deyi Zhuo , Zi-Jie Yan , Hemian Yi , Ke Wang , Moses H. W. Chan , Chao-Xing Liu , K. T. Law , Cui-Zu Chang

Topology is key in describing unconventional quantum phases of matter and devising robust quantum technology. Exactly how topology mixes with quantum mechanics remains largely unclear, as testified by the lack of a unifying microscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 Eugenio DelRe , Paolo Di Porto

The anomalous Hall effect, a hallmark of broken time-reversal symmetry and spin-orbit coupling, is frequently observed in magnetically polarized systems. Its realization in non-magnetic systems, however, remains elusive. Here, we report on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-29 Athby H. Al-Tawhid , Jesse Kanter , Mehdi Hatefipour , Douglas L. Irving , Divine P. Kumah , Javad Shabani , Kaveh Ahadi

Using numerical simulations, we examine the dynamics of active matter run-and-tumble disks moving in a disordered array of obstacles. As a function of increasing active disk density and activity, we find a transition from a completely…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-09-13 C. J. O. Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt

We experimentally investigate the dynamics of synthetic active particles composed of gravitationally bouncing, superwalking droplets confined within an annular fluid bath. Driven by a topologically pumping dual-frequency waveform, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-19 Rudra Sekhri , Rahil N. Valani , Tapio Simula

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect has recently been realized in thin films of intrinsic magnetic topological insulators (IMTIs) like MnBi$_2$Te$_4$. Here we point out that that the QAH gaps of these IMTIs can be optimized, and that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-20 Chao Lei , Allan H. MacDonald

The quantum anomalous Hall effect has been theoretically predicted and experimentally verified in magnetic topological insulators. In addition, the surface states of these materials exhibit a hedgehog-like "spin" texture in momentum space.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-07 Narayan Mohanta , Arno P. Kampf , Thilo Kopp

Topological insulators have attracted abundant attention for a variety of reasons -- notably, the possibility for lossless energy transport through edge states `protected' against disorder. Topological effects like the Quantum Hall state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-23 Momchil Minkov , Vincenzo Savona

The anomalous Hall effect for type-II superconductors is investigated by random walk theorem. It is shown that the origin of Hall anomaly is induced by the thermally activated vortex bundle flow (TAVBF) over the directional-dependent energy…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-01-18 Ming Ju Chou , Wei Yeu Chen