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The electronic, magnetic, and topological properties of CoBr2 monolayer are studied in the frame-work of the density-functional theory (DFT) combined with tight-binding (TB) modeling in terms of Wannier basis. Our DFT investigation and…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-27 Peng Chen , Jin-Yu Zou , Bang-Gui Liu

As one of paradigmatic phenomena in condensed matter physics, the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) in stoichiometric Chern insulators has drawn great interest for years. By using model Hamiltonian analysis and first-principle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Hongyi Sun , Bowen Xia , Zhongjia Chen , Yingjie Zhang , Pengfei Liu , Qiushi Yao , Hong Tang , Yujun Zhao , Hu Xu , Qihang Liu

Topological insulating states in two-dimensional (2D) materials are ideal systems to study different types of quantized response signals due to their in gap metallic states. Very recently, the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect was discovered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 Junwen Lai , Xiangyang Liu , Jie Zhan , Tianye Yu , Peitao Liu , Xing-Qiu Chen , Yan Sun

We provide a characterization of tunneling between coupled topological insulators in 2D and 3D under the influence of a ferromagnetic layer. We explore conditions for such systems to exhibit integer quantum Hall physics and localized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Qinglei Meng , Smitha Vishveshwara , Taylor L. Hughes

A three-dimensional (3D) topological insulator (TI) is a quantum state of matter with a gapped insulating bulk yet a conducting surface hosting topologically-protected gapless surface states. One of the most distinct electronic transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-06 Yang Xu , Ireneusz Miotkowski , Chang Liu , Jifa Tian , Hyoungdo Nam , Nasser Alidoust , Jiuning Hu , Chih-Kang Shih , M. Zahid Hasan , Yong P. Chen

The topological states of matters arising from the nontrivial magnetic configuration provide a better understanding of physical properties and functionalities of solid materials. Such studies benefit from the active control of spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-29 Jian Liu , Sheng Meng , Jia-Tao Sun

Moir\'e materials have become one of the most active fields in material science in recent years due to their high tunability, and their unique properties emerge from the Moir\'e-scale structure modulation. Here, we propose twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-17 Ikuma Tateishi , Motoaki Hirayama

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

Motivated by recent transport experiments, we theoretically study the quantum Hall effect in topological semimetal films. Owing to the confinement effect, the bulk subbands originating from the chiral Landau levels establish energy gaps…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-13 D. -H. -Minh Nguyen , Koji Kobayashi , Jan-Erik R. Wichmann , Kentaro Nomura

We propose models of two dimensional paramagnetic semiconductors where the intrinsic spin Hall effect is exactly quantized in integer units of a topological charge. The model describes a topological insulator in the bulk, and a "holographic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Xiao-Liang Qi , Yong-Shi Wu , Shou-Cheng Zhang

The study of topological property of band insulators is an interesting branch of condensed matter physics. Two types of topologically nontrivial insulators have been extensively studied. The first type is characterized by a nonzero TKNN…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-15 Yi-Dong Wu

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

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

We evidenced unconventionnal Anomalous Hall Effects (AHE) in 3d/5d (Co0.2nm/Ni0.6nm)N multilayers grown on a thin Pt layer or thin Au:W alloy. The inversion observed on AHE originates from the opposite sign of the spin-orbit coupling of Pt…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 T. Huong Dang , Q. Barbedienne , Q. D. To , E. Rongione , N. Reyren , F. Godel , S. Collin , J. M. George , H. Jaffrès

Driven by various physical origins, the interesting reentrant phenomena in quantum Hall effect (QHE), quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) and non-Hermitian systems have been discussed recently. Here, we present that the reentrant phenomena…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Xiaoyu Cheng , Xiaohong Zheng , Jun Chen , Liantuan Xiao , Suotang Jia , Lei Zhang

The search of new topological insulators that demonstrate the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) is a cutting-edge research topic in condensed matter physics and materials science. So far, the QAHE has been observed only in Cr-doped…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-13 Jun Hu , Zhenyue Zhu , Ruqian Wu

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

Atomically thin topological materials are attracting growing attention for their potential to radically transform classical and quantum electronic device concepts. Amongst them is the quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulator - a two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 Michael S. Lodge , Shengyuan A. Yang , Shantanu Mukherjee , Bent Weber

Recently we wrote a paper on the theory of the quantum spin Hall effect(QSHE) in two dimensional(2D) topological insulators(TIs)1 which have been considered as do not add much new insight to the exhaustively studied topic of TI within a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-05 Yi-Dong Wu

We investigate the quantum anomalous Hall Effect (QAHE) and related chiral transport in the millimeter-size (Cr0.12Bi0.26Sb0.62)2Te3 films. With high sample quality and robust magnetism at low temperatures, the quantized Hall conductance of…