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Dual quantum spin Hall insulator (QSHI) is a newly discovered topological state in the 2D material TaIrTe$_4$, exhibiting both a traditional $Z_2$ band gap at charge neutrality point and a van Hove singularity (VHS) induced correlated $Z_2$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-05 Xiangyang Liu , Junwen Lai , Jie Zhan , Tianye Yu , Wujun Shi , Peitao Liu , Xing-Qiu Chen , Yan Sun

The experimentally observed correlated insulating states and quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) have drawn significant attention. However, up to date, the specific mechanisms of these intriguing phenomena…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-27 Jianpeng Liu , Xi Dai

Moir\'e materials provide fertile ground for the correlated and topological quantum phenomena. Among them, the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect, in which the Hall resistance is quantized even under zero magnetic field, is a direct…

The quantum spin hall (QSH) phase, also known as the 2D topological insulator, is characterized by protected helical edge modes arising from time reversal symmetry. While initially proposed for band insulators, this phase can also manifest…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-26 Yixin Ma , Shenghan Jiang , Chao Xu

The discovery of the Quantum Spin Hall state, and topological insulators in general, has sparked strong experimental efforts. Transport studies of the Quantum Spin Hall state confirmed the presence of edge states, showed ballistic edge…

Helical edge states in quantum spin Hall (QSH) materials are central building blocks of topological matter design and engineering. Despite their principal topological protection against elastic backscattering, the level of operational…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-05 Maciej Bieniek , Jukka I. Väyrynen , Gang Li , Titus Neupert , Ronny Thomale

The realization of quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect in HgTe quantum wells (QWs) is considered a milestone in the discovery of topological insulators. The QSH edge states are predicted to allow current to flow at the edges of an insulating…

We evidence the possibility for coherent electrical manipulation of the spin orientation of topologically protected edge states in a low-symmetry quantum spin Hall insulator. By using a combination of ab-initio simulations, symmetry-based…

In this work, we study the disorder effect on topological metals that support a pair of helical edge modes deeply embedded inside the gapless bulk states. Strikingly, we predict that a quantum spin Hall (QSH) phase can be obtained from such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-14 Chui-Zhen Chen , Hua Jiang , Dong-Hui Xu , X. C. Xie

With low-buckled structure for each layer in graphene bilayer system, there breaks inversion symmetry (P-symmetry) for one stacking when both A and B sublattices in top layer are aligned with those in bottom layer. In consideration of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-21 Yu-Hao Shen , Jun-Ding Zheng , Wen-Yi Tong , Zhi-Qiang Bao , Xian-Gang Wan , Chun-Gang Duan

We study the spin edge states in the quantum spin-Hall (QSH) effect on a single-atomic layer graphene ribbon system with both intrinsic and Rashba spin-orbit couplings. The Harper equation for solving the energies of the spin edge states is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Zhigang Wang , Ningning Hao , Ping Zhang

Topologically nontrivial band structure of a material may give rise to special states that are confined to the material's boundary and protected against disorder and scattering. Quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE) is a paradigmatic example of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Luis Alberto Razo López , Pierre Wulles , Geoffroy J. Aubry , Sergey E. Skipetrov , Fabrice Mortessagne

It is a conventional wisdom that the helical edge states of quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulator are particularly stable due to the topological protection of time-reversal symmetry. Here, we report the first experimental observation of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Huanhuan Yang , Lingling Song , Yunshan Cao , X. R. Wang , Peng Yan

The quantum spin Hall effect has been predicted in twisted homobilayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) owing to the layer-pseudospin magnetic field. Recently, experimental observations have also confirmed such topological states of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Hao He , Zhao Gong , Qing-Jun Tong , Dawei Zhai , Wang Yao , Xing-Tao An

The electronic states of a single Bi(111) bilayer and its edges, suggested as a two dimensional topological insulator, are investigated by scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS) and first-principles calculations. Well-ordered bilayer films…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-30 Sung Hwan Kim , Kyung-Hwan Jin , Joonbum Park , Jun Sung Kim , Seung-Hoon Jhi , Tae-Hwan Kim , Han Woong Yeom

We explore the emergence of topological phases in moir\'{e} MoTe$_2$/WSe$_2$ bilayer, highlighting the crucial role of spin-orbit coupling and Coulomb interactions at two holes per moir\'e unit cell \(v = 2\). Our analysis uncovers robust…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Palash Saha , Michał Zegrodnik

Recent experimental evidence for the quantum spin Hall (QSH) state in monolayer WTe$_2$ has bridged two of the most active fields of condensed matter physics, 2D materials and topological physics. This 2D topological crystal also displays…

Applying electric or magnetic fields is widely used to not only create and manipulate topological states but also facilitate their observations in experiments. In this work, we show by first-principles calculations and topological analysis…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-19 Shi Xiao , Xiaoliang Xiao , Fangyang Zhan , Jing Fan , Xiaozhi Wu , Rui Wang

Moir\'e superlattices in semiconductors exhibit a rich variety of interaction-induced topological states, including quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effects. A recent study hinted that twisted WSe2 homobilayer (tWSe2) could host a QAH state but…

On the surface of 2D Topological insulators occur 1D quantum spin Hall(QSH) edge modes with Dirac like dispersion. Unlike quantum Hall(QH) edge modes which occur at high magnetic fields in 2DEGs, the occurrence of QSH edge modes is because…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-15 Arjun Mani , Colin Benjamin