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The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect, a condensed matter analog of the parity anomaly, is characterized by a quantized Hall conductivity in the absence of an external magnetic field. However, it has been recently shown that, even in the…

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An intriguing observation on the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) in magnetic topological insulators (MTIs) is the dissipative edge states, where quantized Hall resistance is accompanied by nonzero longitudinal resistance. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-05 Yanxia Xing , Fuming Xu , Qing-feng Sun , Jian Wang , Yu-gui Yao

After decades of searching for the dissipationless transport in the absence of any external magnetic field, quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) was recently achieved in magnetic topological insulator (TI) films. However, the universal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-09 Xufeng Kou , Lei Pan , Jing Wang , Yabin Fan , Eun Sang Choi , Wei-Li Lee , Tianxiao Nie , Koichi Murata , Qiming Shao , Shou-Cheng Zhang , Kang L. Wang

Instability of quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect has been studied as function of electric current and temperature in ferromagnetic topological insulator thin films. We find that a characteristic current for the breakdown of the QAH effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Minoru Kawamura , Ryutaro Yoshimi , Atsushi Tsukazaki , Kei S. Takahashi , Masashi Kawasaki , Yoshinori Tokura

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

Despite many years of efforts, attempts to reach the quantum regime of topological surface states (TSS) on an electrically tunable topological insulator (TI) platform have so far failed on binary TI compounds such as Bi2Se3 due to high…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-12 N. Koirala , M. Salehi , J. Moon , S. Oh

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 quantum anomalous Hall effect is a fundamental transport response of a topologically non-trivial system in zero magnetic field. Its physical origin relies on the intrinsically inverted electronic band structure and ferromagnetism, and…

Meeting of non-trivial topology with magnetism results in novel phases of matter, such as Quantum Anomalous Hall (QAH) or axion insulator phases. Even more exotic states with high and tunable Chern numbers are expected at the contact of…

Magnetic topological states refer to a class of exotic phases in magnetic materials with their non-trivial topological property determined by magnetic spin configurations. An example of such states is the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) state,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Yi-Fan Zhao , Ruoxi Zhang , Zi-Ting Sun , Ling-Jie Zhou , Deyi Zhuo , Zi-Jie Yan , Hemian Yi , Ke Wang , Moses H. W. Chan , Chao-Xing Liu , K. T. Law , Cui-Zu Chang

A quantum phase transition arises from competition between different ground states and is typically accessed by varying a single physical parameter near absolute zero temperature. The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect with high Chern…

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The intrinsic antiferromagnetic (AFM) interlayer coupling in two-dimensional magnetic topological insulator MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ places a restriction on realizing stable quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) [Y. Deng et al., Science 367, 895…

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Understanding the effects of interfacial modification to the functional properties of magnetic topological insulator thin films is crucial for developing novel technological applications from spintronics to quantum computing. Here, we…

The interplay of non-trivial band topology and magnetism gives rise to a series of exotic quantum phenomena, such as the emergent quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect and topological magnetoelectric effect. Many of these quantum phenomena…

The interplay between band topology and magnetic order could generate a variety of time-reversal-breaking gapped topological phases with exotic topological quantization phenomena, such as quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators and axion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Yue Li , Yadong Jiang , Jinlong Zhang , Zhaochen Liu , Zhongqin Yang , Jing Wang

Combining magnetism and nontrivial band topology gives rise to quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators and exotic quantum phases such as the QAH effect where current flows without dissipation along quantized edge states. Inducing magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Qile Li , Chi Xuan Trang , Weikang Wu , Jinwoong Hwang , Nikhil Medhekar , Sung-Kwan Mo , Shengyuan A. Yang , Mark T Edmonds

Quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) is a fundamental transport phenomenon in the field of condensed-matter physics. Without external magnetic field, spontaneous magnetization combined with spin-orbit coupling give rise to a quantized Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-08 Z. F. Wang , Zheng Liu , Feng Liu

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) phase is a two-dimensional bulk ferromagnetic insulator with a nonzero Chern number in presence of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) but absence of applied magnetic fields. Associated metallic chiral edge states host…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-28 Jian Zhou , Qi-Feng Liang , Hongming Weng , Y. B. Chen , Shu-Hua Yao , Yan-Feng Chen , Jinming Dong , Guang-Yu Guo

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect appears in ferromagnetic topological insulators (FMTI) when a Dirac mass gap opens in the spectrum of the topological surface states (SS). Unaccountably, although the mean mass gap can exceed 28 meV (or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-26 Yi Xue Chong , Xiaolong Liu , Rahul Sharma , Andrey Kostin , Genda Gu , K. Fujita , J. C. Séamus Davis , Peter O. Sprau

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect generates quantized electric charge Hall conductance without external magnetic field. It requires both nontrivial band topology and time-reversal symmetry (TRS) breaking. In most cases, one could break…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-07-06 Haowei Xu , Jian Zhou , Ju Li