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We use magnetotransport in dual-gated magnetic topological insulator heterostructures to map out a phase diagram of the topological Hall and quantum anomalous Hall effects as a function of the chemical potential (primarily determined by the…

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect holds fundamental importance in topological physics and technological promise for electronics. It is generally believed that the QAH effect can only be realized in insulators. In this Letter, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Yu-Hao Wan , Peng-Yi Liu , Qing-Feng Sun

We report a nearly ideal quantum anomalous Hall effect in a three-dimensional topological insulator thin film with ferromagnetic doping. Near zero applied magnetic field we measure exact quantization in Hall resistance to within a part per…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. J. Bestwick , E. J. Fox , Xufeng Kou , Lei Pan , Kang L. Wang , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

For the fractional quantum Hall states on a finite disc, we study the thermoelectric transport properties under the influence of an edge and its reconstruction. In a recent study on a torus [Phys. Rev. B 101, 241101 (2020)], Sheng and Fu…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-30 Zi-Yi Fang , Dan Ye , Yu-Yu Zhang , Zi-Xiang Hu

In $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$, an external magnetic field applied within the honeycomb plane can induce a transition from a magnetically ordered state to a disordered state that is potentially related to the Kitaev quantum spin liquid. In zero…

Thermal Hall transport has emerged as a valuable tool for probing the fractionalized excitations in chiral quantum spin liquids. Observing quantized thermal Hall response, expected at temperatures below the spectral gap, has been…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-01 Avijit Maity , Haoyu Guo , Subir Sachdev , Vikram Tripathi

Since the charged mode is much faster than the neutral modes on quantum Hall edges at large filling factors, the edge may remain out of equilibrium in thermal conductance experiments. This sheds light on the observed imperfect quantization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-04 Ken K. W. Ma , D. E. Feldman

In the Kitaev honeycomb model, the quantum spin fractionalizes into itinerant Majorana and gauge flux spontaneously upon cooling, leading to rich experimental ramifications at finite temperature and an upsurge of research interest. In this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-07 Han Li , Dai-Wei Qu , Hao-Kai Zhang , Yi-Zhen Jia , Shou-Shu Gong , Yang Qi , Wei Li

The search for exotic spin configurations and related novel transport properties continues to be fueled by the promise of new electronic states and outstanding candidate components for spintronic applications. In layered…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-02 Bowen Chen , Xiaokai Wu , Zhiyu Liao , Zhendong Fu , Bing Xu , Meng Wang , Bing Shen

We show that a $d$-wave altermagnet can be transformed into a Chern insulator by irradiating it with elliptically polarized light from a high-frequency photon beam. We further explore the intrinsic anomalous thermoelectric and thermal Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Fang Qin , Xiao-Bin Qiang

Quantized Hall conductance is a generic feature of two dimensional electronic systems with broken time reversal symmetry. In the quantum anomalous Hall state recently discovered in magnetic topological insulators, time reversal symmetry is…

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect is a novel topological spintronic phenomenon arising from inherent magnetization and spin-orbit coupling. Various theoretical and experimental efforts have been devoted in search of robust intrinsic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-01-18 Chengxi Huang , Jian Zhou , Haiping Wu , Kaiming Deng , Puru Jena , Erjun Kan

The low-energy physics of two-dimensional Quantum Anomalous Hall insulators like (Hg,Mn)Te quantum wells or magnetically doped (Bi,Sb)Te thin films can be effectively described by two Chern insulators, including a Dirac, as well as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-11 C. Tutschku , F. S. Nogueira , C. Northe , J. van den Brink , E. M. Hankiewicz

The quasi two-dimensional Mott insulator $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$ is proximate to the sought-after Kitaev quantum spin liquid (QSL). In a layer of $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$ on graphene the dominant Kitaev exchange is further enhanced by strain. Recently,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-24 V. Leeb , K. Polyudov , S. Mashhadi , S. Biswas , Roser Valenti , M. Burghard , J. Knolle

The topological nature of topological insulators are related to the symmetries present in the material, for example, quantum spin Hall effect can be observed in topological insulators with time reversal symmetry, while broken time reversal…

The recent studies on the anomalous Hall effect (AHE) have revealed an intrinsic relationship between the topological band structure and the experimentally observed transverse conductivity. Consequently, this has led to a heightened focus…

We have measured the magnetoresistance of a very low density and an extremely high quality two-dimensional hole system. With increasing magnetic field applied perpendicularly to the sample we observe the sequence of insulating, $\nu=1/3$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. A. Csathy , D. C. Tsui , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

Recently,a half-quantized Hall conductance (HQHC) plateau is experimentally observed in a semi-magnetic topological insulator heterostructure. However,the heterostructure is metallic with a nonzero longitudinal conductance, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Humian Zhou , Hailong Li , Dong-Hui Xu , Chui-Zhen Chen , Qing-Feng Sun , X. C. Xie

Chiral conformal field theories are characterized by a ground-state current at finite temperature, that could be observed, e.g. in the edge excitations of the quantum Hall effect. We show that the corresponding thermal conductance is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 Andrea Cappelli , Marina Huerta , Guillermo R. Zemba

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect is conventionally understood to exist only in Chern insulators, while a recent study has shown that ferromagnetic metals can also host the QAH effect. Between insulators and metals, we demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Peng-Yi Liu , Yu-Hao Wan , Qing-Feng Sun