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Graphene is the first model system of two-dimensional topological insulator (TI), also known as quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulator. The QSH effect in graphene, however, has eluded direct experimental detection because of its extremely small…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-12 Liangzhi Kou , Feiming Hu , Binghai Yan , Tim Wehling , Claudia Felser , Thomas Frauenheim , Changfeng Chen

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators have unique electronic properties, comprising a band gap in their two-dimensional interior and one-dimensional spin-polarized edge states in which current flows ballistically. In scanning tunneling…

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) materials are two-dimensional systems exhibiting insulating bulk and helical edge states simultaneously. A QSH insulator processes topologically non-trivial edge states protected by time-reversal symmetry, so that…

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators have gapless topological edge states inside the bulk band gap, which can serve as dissipationless spin current channels protected by the time-reversal symmetry. The major challenge currently is to find…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-08 Jin-Jian Zhou , Wanxiang Feng , Cheng-Cheng Liu , Shan Guan , Yugui Yao

When the dimension of a solid structure is reduced, there will be two emerging effects, quantum confinement and surface effect, which dominate at nanoscale. Based on first-principles calculations, we demonstrate that due to an intriguing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-04 PengFei Zhang , Zheng Liu , Wenhui Duan , Feng Liu , Jian Wu

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…

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators are two-dimensional electronic materials that have a bulk band gap like an ordinary insulator but have topologically protected pairs of edge modes of opposite chiralities. To date, experimental studies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Kaifei Kang , Bowen Shen , Yichen Qiu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jie Shan , Kin Fai Mak

A novel topological insulator with tunable edge states, called quantum spin-quantum anomalous Hall (QSQAH) insulator, is predicted in a heterostructure of a hydrogenated Sb (SbH) monolayer on a LaFeO3 substrate by using ab initio methods.…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-10 Tong Zhou , Jiayong Zhang , Yang Xue , Bao Zhao , Huisheng Zhang , Hua Jiang , Zhongqin Yang

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators exhibit spin-polarized conducting edge states that are topologically protected from backscattering and offer unique opportunities for addressing fundamental science questions and device applications.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Rajibul Islam , Rahul Verma , Barun Ghosh , Zahir Muhammad , Arun Bansil , Carmine Autieri , Bahadur Singh

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect with great promise for the potential application in spintronics and quantum computing has attracted extensive research interest from both theoretical and experimental researchers. Here, we predict monolayer…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-29 Zhaopeng Guo , Dayu Yan , Haohao Sheng , Simin Nie , Youguo Shi , Zhijun Wang

Two-dimensional (2D) topological insulators (TIs) are promising platforms for low-dissipation spintronic devices based on the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect, but experimental realization of such systems with a large band gap suitable for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 P. Chen , W. -W. Pai , Y. -H. Chan , W. -L. Sun , C. -Z. Xu , D. -S. Lin , M. Y. Chou , A. -V. Fedorov , T. -C. Chiang

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

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) materials promise revolutionary device applications based on dissipationless propagation of spin currents. They are two-dimensional (2D) representatives of the family of topological insulators, which exhibit…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-09-27 F. Reis , G. Li , L. Dudy , M. Bauernfeind , S. Glass , W. Hanke , R. Thomale , J. Schäfer , R. Claessen

By means of first-principles calculations, we predict a new 2D QSH insulator in the porous allotrope of Bismuth monolayer, bismuthylene, its dynamics stability being confirmed by phonon spectrum and molecular dynamics simulations. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-15 Run-wu Zhang , Chang-wen Zhang , Wei-xiao Ji , Ping Li , Pei-ji Wang

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

Based on first-principles calculations, we have found a family of 2D transition-metal (TM) chalcogenides MX5 (M = Zr, Hf and X = S, Se and Te) can host quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect. The molecular dynamics simulation indicate that they are…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-15 Xing Wang , Wenhui Wan , Yanfeng Ge , Kai-Cheng Zhang , Yong Liu

The quantum-spin-Hall (QSH) phase of 2D topological insulators has attracted increased attention since the onset of 2D materials research. While large bulk gaps with vanishing edge gaps in atomically thin layers have been reported,…

Recent theory predicted that the Quantum Spin Hall Effect, a fundamentally novel quantum state of matter that exists at zero external magnetic field, may be realized in HgTe/(Hg,Cd)Te quantum wells. We have fabricated such sample structures…

The field of topological insulators (TI) was sparked by the prediction of the quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE) in time reversal invariant systems, such as spin-orbit coupled monolayer graphene. Ever since, a variety of monolayer crystals…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-19 Sanfeng Wu , Valla Fatemi , Quinn D. Gibson , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Robert J. Cava , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

The quantized version of anomalous Hall effect realized in magnetic topological insulators (MTIs) has great potential for the development of topological quantum physics and low-power electronic/spintronic applications. To enable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-25 Yuchen Ji , Zheng Liu , Peng Zhang , Lun Li , Shifei Qi , Peng Chen , Yong Zhang , Qi Yao , Zhongkai Liu , Kang L. Wang , Zhenhua Qiao , Xufeng Kou