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Ferromagnetic topological insulators exhibit the quantum anomalous Hall effect that might be used for high precision metrology and edge channel spintronics. In conjunction with superconductors, they could host chiral Majorana zero modes…

Quantum anomalous Hall effect(QAHE) can only be realized at extremely low temperatures in magnetically doped topological insulators(TIs) due to limitations inherent with the doping precess. In an effort to boost the quantization temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-17 Xiong Yao , Bin Gao , Myung-Geun Han , Deepti Jain , Jisoo Moon , Jae Wook Kim , Yimei Zhu , Sang-Wook Cheong , Seongshik Oh

The anomalous Hall effect (AHE) occurs in magnetic systems and also unexpectedly in non-magnetic materials adjacent to magnetic insulators via the heterointerface interactions. However, the AHE in heterostructures induced by magnetic…

Topological Hall effect (THE), a quantum phenomenon arising from emergent magnetic field generated by topological spin texture, is a key method for detecting non-coplanar spin structures like skyrmions in magnetic materials. Here, we…

In a topological insulator (TI) the character of electron transport varies from insulating in the interior of the material to metallic near its surface. Unlike, however, ordinary metals, conducting surface states in TIs are topologically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-08 G. Tkachov , E. M. Hankiewicz

The experimental observation of the long-sought quantum anomalous Hall effect was recently reported in magnetically doped topological insulator thin films [Chang et al., Science 340, 167 (2013)]. An intriguing observation is a rapid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-04 Hai-Zhou Lu , An Zhao , Shun-Qing Shen

Quantum spin Hall insulators with a pair of helical edge states and proximity-induced superconductivity have been shown to support second-order topological superconductors with Majorana corner modes. As the Majorana corner modes are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Zhiwei Yin , Haoshu Li , Zhongbo Yan , Shaolong Wan

Magnetism, when combined with an unconventional electronic band structure, can give rise to forefront electronic properties such as the quantum anomalous Hall effect, axion electrodynamics, and Majorana fermions. Here we report the…

A van der Waals heterostructure combined with intrinsic magnetism and topological orders have recently paved attractive avenues to realize quantum anomalous Hall effects. In this work, using first-principles calculations and effective model…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-22 Ruiling Zou , Fangyang Zhan , Baobing Zheng , Xiaozhi Wu , Jing Fan , Rui Wang

The survival of the quantum spin Hall edge channels in presence of an external magnetic field has been a subject of experimental and theoretical research. The inversion of Landau levels that accommodates the quantum spin Hall effect is…

We propose a novel realization for a topologically superconducting phase hosting Majorana zero-modes on the basis of quantum spin Hall systems. Remarkably, our proposal is completely free of ferromagnets. Instead, we confine helical edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 C. Fleckenstein , N. Traverso Ziani , A. Calzona , M. Sassetti , B. Trauzettel

The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) realized in two-dimensional electron systems under a magnetic field is one of the most remarkable discoveries in condensed matter physics. Interestingly, it has been proposed that FQHE can also…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-16 Shou-Shu Gong , Wei Zhu , D. N. Sheng

The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE), the last member of Hall family, was predicted to exhibit quantized Hall conductivity e2/h without any external magnetic field. The QAHE shares a similar physical phenomenon with the integer quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Cui-Zu Chang , Mingda Li

An interplay between pairing and topological orders has been predicted to give rise to superconducting states supporting exotic emergent particles, such as Majorana particles obeying non-Abelian braid statistics. We consider a system of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-10 Jonathan Schirmer , C. -X. Liu , J. K. Jain

We theoretically investigate emergent quantum phases in the thin film geometries of the pyrochore iridates, where a number of exotic quantum ground states are proposed to occur in bulk materials as a result of the interplay between electron…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-07-19 Kyusung Hwang , Yong Baek Kim

The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) that emerges under broken time-reversal symmetry in topological insulators (TI) exhibits many fascinating physical properties for potential applications in nano-electronics and spintronics. However,…

Quantum Hall effect (QHE), the ground to construct modern conceptual electronic systems with emerging physics, is often much influenced by the interplay between the host two-dimensional electron gases and the substrate, sometimes predicted…

Starting with a description of the motivation underlying the analysis presented in this paper and a brief survey of the chiral anomaly, I proceed to review some basic elements of the theory of the quantum Hall effect in 2D incompressible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Juerg Froehlich

We envision that quantum spin Hall effect should be observed in $(111)$-oriented thin films of SnSe and SnTe topological crystalline insulators. Using a tight-binding approach supported by first-principles calculations of the band…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-07-01 Shiva Safaei , Marta Galicka , Perla Kacman , Ryszard Buczko

Strong electronic correlations can produce remarkable phenomena such as metal-insulator transitions and greatly enhance superconductivity, thermoelectricity, or optical non-linearity. In correlated systems, spatially varying charge textures…