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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

The interplay between magnetism and strong topological insulator gives rise to distinct new topological phases and various intriguing phenomena, attracting significant attention in recent years. However, magnetic effects in weak topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 Rui Chen , Xiao-Xia Yi , Bin Zhou , Dong-Hui Xu

Interlayer exchange coupling (IEC) between two magnetic layers sandwiched by a nonmagnetic spacer layer plays a critical role in shaping the magnetic properties of such heterostructures. The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Ruoxi Zhang , Yi-Fan Zhao , Ling-Jie Zhou , Deyi Zhuo , Zi-Jie Yan , Chao-Xing Liu , Moses H. W. Chan , Chui-Zhen Chen , Cui-Zu Chang

The anomalous Hall effect (AHE) is studied on the surface of a 3D magnetic topological insulator. By applying a modified semi-classical framework, all three contributions to the AHE, the intrinsic Berry phase curvature effect, the side-jump…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Amir Sabzalipour , Bart Partoens

Recently, this long-sought quantum anomalous Hall effect was realized in the magnetic topological insulator. However, the requirement of an extremely low temperature (approximately 30 mK) hinders realistic applications. Based on…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-12-17 Shu-chun Wu , Guangcun Shan , Binghai Yan

A key step towards dissipationless transport devices is the quantum anomalous Hall effect, which is characterized by an integer quantized Hall conductance in a ferromagnetic insulator with strong spin-orbit coupling. In this work, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-29 Hai-Zhou Lu , Shun-Qing Shen

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) systems are of great fundamental interest and potential application because of their dissipationless conduction without the need for external magnetic field. The QAH effect has been realized in magnetically…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-29 Wenbo Wang , Yunbo Ou , Chang Liu , Yayu Wang , Ke He , Qi-Kun Xue , Weida Wu

In magnetically doped thin-film topological insulators, aligning the magnetic moments generates a quantum anomalous Hall phase supporting a single chiral edge state. We show that as the system de-magnetizes, disorder from randomly oriented…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-30 Arbel Haim , Roni Ilan , Jason Alicea

Recent experiments on rhombohedral pentalayer graphene flakes with a substrate induced moir\'e potential have identified both Chern insulators and fractional Quantum Hall states in the absence of an applied magnetic field. Surprisingly,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-15 Junkai Dong , Taige Wang , Tianle Wang , Tomohiro Soejima , Michael P. Zaletel , Ashvin Vishwanath , Daniel E. Parker

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

The quantum Hall effect is usually observed when the two-dimensional electron gas is subjected to an external magnetic field, so that their quantum states form Landau levels. In this work we predict that a new phenomenon, the quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chao-Xing Liu , Xiao-Liang Qi , Xi Dai , Zhong Fang , Shou-Cheng Zhang

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect is predicted to possess, at zero magnetic field, chiral edge channels that conduct spin polarized current without dissipation. While edge channels have been observed in previous experimental studies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-20 Cui-Zu Chang , Weiwei Zhao , Duk Y. Kim , Peng Wei , J. K. Jain , Chaoxing Liu , Moses H. W. Chan , Jagadeesh S. Moodera

Chern insulator or quantum anomalous Hall state is a topological state with integer Hall conductivity but in absence of Landau level. It had been well established on various two-dimensional lattices with periodic structure. Here, we report…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Ai-Lei He , Lu-Rong Ding , Yuan Zhou , Yi-Fei Wang , Chang-De Gong

The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) has unique advantages in topotronic applications, but it is still challenging to realize the QAHE with tunable magnetic and topological properties for building functional devices. Through systematic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-12-29 Feng Xue , Yusheng Hou , Zhe Wang , Zhiming Xu , Ke He , Ruqian Wu , Yong Xu , Wenhui Duan

Chiral edge modes inherent to the topological quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect are a pivotal topic of contemporary condensed matter research aiming at future quantum technology and application in spintronics. A large topological gap is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Suhua Jin , Yunyouyou Xia , Wujun Shi , Jiayu Hu , Ralph Claessen , Werner Hanke , Ronny Thomale , Gang Li

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…

Topological quantum states have been proposed and investigated on two-dimensional flat surfaces or lattices with different geometries like the plane, cylinder and torus. Here, we study quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) or Chern insulator (CI)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Ai-Lei He , Wei-Wei Luo , Yi-Fei Wang , Chang-De Gong

The quantum Hall effect, which exhibits a number of unusual properties, is studied in a gated 1000-nm-thick HgTe film, nominally a three-dimensional system. A weak zero plateau of Hall resistance, accompanied by a relatively small value of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 M. L. Savchenko , D. A. Kozlov , S. S. Krishtopenko , N. N. Mikhailov , Z. D. Kvon , A. Pimenov , D. Weiss

Nontrivial band topology combined with magnetic ordering can produce quantum anomalous Hall insulator (QAHI), which may lead to advances in device concepts. Here, through first-principles calculations, stable monolayer $\mathrm{Fe_2Br_2}$…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-22 San-Dong Guo , Yu-Tong Zhu , Bang-Gui Liu

Quantum anomalous Hall effect has been widely explored in both ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic systems. Here, we propose an interaction-driven paramagnetic quantum anomalous Hall effect emerging in the Fermion-Hubbard model on a dice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-15 Yedi Shen , Sanyi You , Zhenhua Qiao , Qian Niu