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Recently the Quantum Spin Hall effect (QSH) was theoretically predicted and experimentally realized in a quantum wells based on binary semiconductor HgTe[1-3]. QSH state and topological insulators are the new states of quantum matter…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-08-08 S. Chadov , X. -L. Qi , J Kübler , G. H. Fecher , C. Felser , S. -C. Zhang

The quantum-spin-Hall (QSH) phase of 2D topological insulators has attracted increased attention since the onset of 2D materials research. While large bulk gaps with vanishing edge gaps in atomically thin layers have been reported,…

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

By means of first-principles calculations, we predict a new 2D QSH insulator in the porous allotrope of Bismuth monolayer, bismuthylene, its dynamics stability being confirmed by phonon spectrum and molecular dynamics simulations. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-15 Run-wu Zhang , Chang-wen Zhang , Wei-xiao Ji , Ping Li , Pei-ji Wang

In this work, we predict the emergence of a quantum spin Hall insulator (QSHI) in conventional semiconductors, specifically InAs quantum wells, driven by a built-in polarization field. We propose QSHI InAs quantum wells as a platform to…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-07 Chenhao Liang , Sheng Zhang , Haohao Sheng , Quansheng Wu , Hongming Weng , Zhong Fang , Zhijun Wang

Two-dimensional topological insulators (2DTIs), which host the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect, are one of the key materials in next-generation spintronic devices. To date, experimental evidence of the QSH effect has only been observed in a…

A two-dimensional (2D) topological insulator (TI) exhibits the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect, in which topologically protected spin-polarized conducting channels exist at the sample edges. Experimental signatures of the QSH effect have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 Yanmeng Shi , Joshua Kahn , Ben Niu , Zaiyao Fei , Bosong Sun , Xinghan Cai , Brian A. Francisco , Di Wu , Zhi-Xun Shen , Xiaodong Xu , David H. Cobden , Yong-Tao Cui

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators are two-dimensional electronic materials that have a bulk band gap like an ordinary insulator but have topologically protected pairs of edge modes of opposite chiralities. To date, experimental studies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Kaifei Kang , Bowen Shen , Yichen Qiu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jie Shan , Kin Fai Mak

A novel topological insulator with tunable edge states, called quantum spin-quantum anomalous Hall (QSQAH) insulator, is predicted in a heterostructure of a hydrogenated Sb (SbH) monolayer on a LaFeO3 substrate by using ab initio methods.…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-10 Tong Zhou , Jiayong Zhang , Yang Xue , Bao Zhao , Huisheng Zhang , Hua Jiang , Zhongqin Yang

Two-dimensional (2D) topological insulators (TIs), also known as quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators, are excellent candidates for coherent spin transport related applications because the edge states of 2D TIs are robust against nonmagnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-19 Wei Luo , Hongjun Xiang

The quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect has attracted extensive research interest because of the potential applications in spintronics and quantum computing, which is attributable to two conducting edge channels with opposite spin polarization…

The quantum spin Hall (QSH) state is a topologically non-trivial state of quantum matter which preserves time-reversal symmetry; it has an energy gap in the bulk, but topologically robust gapless states at the edge. Recently, this novel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chaoxing Liu , Taylor L. Hughes , Xiao-Liang Qi , Kang Wang , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect is quite promising for applications in spintronics and quantum computations, but presently can only be achieved at ultralow temperature. Searching for large-gap QSH insulators is the key to increase the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 Xin Chen , Linyang Li , Mingwen Zhao

Two-dimensional (2D) topological insulators (TIs) are promising platforms for low-dissipation spintronic devices based on the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect, but experimental realization of such systems with a large band gap suitable for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 P. Chen , W. -W. Pai , Y. -H. Chan , W. -L. Sun , C. -Z. Xu , D. -S. Lin , M. Y. Chou , A. -V. Fedorov , T. -C. Chiang

Topological insulators are electronic materials that have a bulk band gap like an ordinary insulator, but have protected conducting states on their edge or surface. The 2D topological insulator is a quantum spin Hall insulator, which is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 M. Z. Hasan , C. L. Kane

The quantum spin Hall (QSH) phase is a time reversal invariant electronic state with a bulk electronic band gap that supports the transport of charge and spin in gapless edge states. We show that this phase is associated with a novel $Z_2$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. L. Kane , E. J. Mele

The interplay between non-Hermiticity and topology opens an exciting avenue for engineering novel topological matter with unprecedented properties. While previous studies have mainly focused on one-dimensional systems or Chern insulators,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Junpeng Hou , Ya-Jie Wu , Chuanwei Zhang

Topological states of quantum matter have inspired both fascinating physics findings and exciting opportunities for applications. Due to the over-complicated structure of, as well as interactions between, real materials, a faithful quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-19 Jia Liu , Jun-Yi Cao , Gang Chen , Zheng-Yuan Xue

Topological insulators are new class of materials which are characterized by a bulk band gap like ordinary band insulator but have protected conducting states on their edge or surface. These states emerge out due to the combination of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-18 Arijit Saha , Arun M. Jayannavar

Ultracold atom research presents many avenues to study problems at the forefront of physics. Due to their unprecedented controllability, these systems are ideally suited to explore new exotic states of matter, which is one of the key…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-19 Indubala I Satija , Erhai Zhao