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The quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect in the DC regime, which has been intensively researched, relies on the existence of symmetry-protected edge states. Here, we demonstrate that a QSH system behaves quite differently in response to an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-28 W. Y. Deng , H. Geng , Wei Luo , Wei Chen , L. Sheng , D. N. Sheng , D. Y. Xing

As one of paradigmatic phenomena in condensed matter physics, the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) in stoichiometric Chern insulators has drawn great interest for years. By using model Hamiltonian analysis and first-principle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Hongyi Sun , Bowen Xia , Zhongjia Chen , Yingjie Zhang , Pengfei Liu , Qiushi Yao , Hong Tang , Yujun Zhao , Hu Xu , Qihang Liu

Spin textures arise in the effective action approach to the quantum Hall effect. Up to now these textures, also called Skyrmions, have been mainly studied using approximations. Studies of its finite density form, the crystal, have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Niels R. Walet , Tom Weidig

The physics of a junction composed of a normal metal, quantum dot and 2D topological insulator (in a quantum spin Hall state) is elucidated. It maifests a subtle combination of Kondo correlations and quantum spin Hall edge states moving on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-30 Igor Kuzmenko , Anatoly Golub , Yshai Avishai

Recent theories predict dissipationless spin current induced by an electric field in doped semiconductors. Nevertheless, the charge current is still dissipative in these systems. In this work, we theoretically predict the dissipationless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Shuichi Murakami , Naoto Nagaosa , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Room-temperature realization of macroscopic quantum phenomena is one of the major pursuits in fundamental physics. The quantum spin Hall state, a topological quantum phenomenon that features a two-dimensional insulating bulk and a helical…

We introduce a quantum spin Hall semimetal or Fermi liquid characterized with a Z2 topological invariant, measurable through circularly polarized light. We propose its engineering through two topological metallic band structures in crystals…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Karyn Le Hur

The highly efficient torques generated by 3D topological insulators make them a favourable platform for faster and more efficient magnetic memory devices. Recently, research into harnessing orbital angular momentum in orbital torques has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 James H. Cullen , Hong Liu , Dimitrie Culcer

Spin Hall effects are a collection of relativistic spin-orbit coupling phenomena in which electrical currents can generate transverse spin currents and vice versa. Although first observed only a decade ago, these effects are already…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-13 Jairo Sinova , Sergio O. Valenzuela , J. Wunderlich , C. H. Back , T. Jungwirth

By using first-principles calculation, we have found that a family of 2D transition metal dichalcogenide haeckelites with square-octagonal lattice $MX_2$-4-8 ($M$=Mo, W and $X$=S, Se and Te) can host quantum spin hall effect. The phonon…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-23 S. M. Nie , Zhida Song , Hongming Weng , Zhong Fang

We observe the inverse spin Hall effect in a two-dimensional electron gas confined in AlGaAs/InGaAs quantum wells. Specifically, we find that an inhomogeneous spin density induced by the optical injection gives rise an electric current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Baoli Liu , Junren Shi , Wenxin Wang , Hongming Zhao , Dafang Li , Shoucheng Zhang , Qikun Xue , Dongmin Chen

The discovery of the quantum Hall (QH) effect led to the realization of a topological electronic state with dissipationless currents circulating in one direction along the edge of a two dimensional electron layer under a strong magnetic…

Silicon's weak intrinsic spin-orbit coupling and centrosymmetric crystal structure are a critical bottleneck to the development of Si spintronics, because they lead to an insignificant spin-Hall effect (spin current generation) and inverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-03 Paul C. Lou , Anand Katailiha , Ravindra G. Bhardwaj , Tonmoy Bhowmick , W. P. Beyermann , Roger K. Lake , Sandeep Kumar

We propose an experimental method utilizing a strongly spin-orbit coupled metal to quantum magnet bilayer that will probe quantum magnets lacking long range magnetic order, e.g., quantum spin liquids, via examination of the voltage noise…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-23 Joshua Aftergood , So Takei

It is shown that the presence of matrix dipole moments induced by external electric fields can modify the Hall response in two dimensional Topological insulators. In the case of the Quantum Anomalous Hall effect the induced transverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Alberto Cortijo

We propose a model which includes a nearest-neighbor intrinsic spin-orbit coupling and a dimer Hamiltonian in the Kagom\'{e} lattice and promises to host the transition from the quantum spin Hall insulator to the normal insulator. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Guocai Liu , Shi-Liang Zhu , Shaojian Jiang , Fadi Sun , W. M. Liu

We present a numerical study of the spin Hall effect in a two-dimensional hole gas (2DHG) system in the presence of disorder. We find that the spin Hall conductance (SHC), extrapolated to the thermodynamic limit, remains finite in a wide…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Q. Chen , Z. Y. Weng , D. N. Sheng

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect, where electrons with opposite spin channels are deflected to opposite sides of a two-dimensional system with a quantized conductance, was believed to be characterized by a nontrivial topological index…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-16 Lu Liu , Yuntian Liu , Jiayu Li , Hua Wu , Qihang Liu

Long-range magnetic textures, such as magnetic skyrmion, give rise to rich transport properties in magnetic metals, such as the anomalous Hall effect related to spin chirality, a.k.a. topological Hall effect. In addition to the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Ryunosuke Terasawa , Hiroaki Ishizuka

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…