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Quantized anomalous Hall effects (QAHEs) occur in remarkable electronic states which possess not only quantized Hall signals but in some cases regions of dissipationless electron transport. The initial demonstrations of a QAHE in a…

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

In a two-dimensional electron gas, the quantized Hall conductance can be induced by a strong magnetic field, known as the quantum Hall effect, and it can also result from the strong exchange coupling of magnetic ions, dubbed as the "quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Xin Liu , Hsiu-Chuan Hsu , Chao-Xing Liu

A universal mechanism to generate chiral hinge states in the ferromagnetic axion insulator phase is proposed, which leads to an exotic transport phenomena, the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) on some particular surfaces determined by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Changming Yue , Yuanfeng Xu , Zhida Song , Yuan-Ming Lu , Hongming Weng , Chen Fang , Xi Dai

We theoretically report that, with \textit{in-plane} magnetization, the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) can be realized in two-dimensional atomic crystal layers with preserved inversion symmetry but broken out-of-plane mirror…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-21 Yafei Ren , Junjie Zeng , Xinzhou Deng , Fei Yang , Hui Pan , Zhenhua Qiao

We investigate the quantum anomalous Hall Effect (QAHE) and related chiral transport in the millimeter-size (Cr0.12Bi0.26Sb0.62)2Te3 films. With high sample quality and robust magnetism at low temperatures, the quantized Hall conductance of…

In magnetic topological insulators, a phase transition between a quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) and an Anderson localization phase can be triggered by the rotation of an applied magnetic field. Without the scattering paths along magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Kristof Moors , Gen Yin

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect is a topologically nontrivial phase, characterized by a non-zero Chern number defined in the bulk and chiral edge states in the boundary. Using first-principles calculations, we demonstrate the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-06-26 Xiangru Kong , Linyang Li , Ortwin Leenaerts , Weiyang Wang , Xiong-Jun Liu , François M. Peeters

We report a nearly ideal quantum anomalous Hall effect in a three-dimensional topological insulator thin film with ferromagnetic doping. Near zero applied magnetic field we measure exact quantization in Hall resistance to within a part per…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. J. Bestwick , E. J. Fox , Xufeng Kou , Lei Pan , Kang L. Wang , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect - a macroscopic manifestation of chiral band topology at zero magnetic field - has only been experimentally realized by magnetic doping of topological insulators (1 - 3) and delicate design of Moire…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-14 Fabian R. Geisenhof , Felix Winterer , Anna M. Seiler , Jakob Lenz , Tianyi Xu , Fan Zhang , R. Thomas Weitz

The quantum geometry has significant consequences in determining transport and optical properties in quantum materials. Here, we use a semiclassical formalism coupled with perturbative corrections unifying the nonlinear anomalous Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-11 Daniel Kaplan , Tobias Holder , Binghai Yan

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

By breaking the time-reversal-symmetry in three-dimensional topological insulators with introduction of spontaneous magnetization or application of magnetic field, the surface states become gapped, leading to quantum anomalous Hall effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 R. Yoshimi , K. Yasuda , A. Tsukazaki , K. S. Takahashi , N. Nagaosa , M. Kawasaki , Y. Tokura

We show that the quantum anomalous Hall effect almost always occurs in magnetic topological insulator thin films whenever the top and bottom surface layer magnetizations are parallel, independent of the interior layer magnetization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Chao Lei , Olle Heinonen , R. J. McQueeney , A. H. MacDonald

We report the observation of a quantum anomalous Hall effect in twisted bilayer graphene showing Hall resistance quantized to within .1\% of the von Klitzing constant $h/e^2$ at zero magnetic field.The effect is driven by intrinsic strong…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-18 M. Serlin , C. L. Tschirhart , H. Polshyn , Y. Zhang , J. Zhu , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , L. Balents , A. F. Young

The quantum Hall effect was originally observed in a two-dimensional electron gas forming Landau levels when exposed to a strong perpendicular magnetic field and was later generalized to Chern insulators without net magnetization. Here,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Benjamin Michen , Jan Carl Budich

We study the quantum Hall effect (QHE) in the three-dimensional topological insulator HgTe, which features topological Dirac-type surface states in a bulk gap opened by strain. Despite the co-existence of multiple carrier subsystems, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-25 S. Hartl , L. Freund , M. Kühn , J. Ziegler , E. Richter , W. Himmler , J. Bärenfänger , D. A. Kozlov , N. N. Mikhailov , J. Weis , D. Weiss

Recently, a type of Hall effect due to an unusual layer-locked Berry curvature called the layer Hall effect (LHE) has been reported in the even-layered two-dimensional antiferromagnetic (AFM) MnBi2Te4 [A. Gao et.al, Nature 595, 521 (2021)].…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 Wen-Bo Dai , Hailong Li , Dong-Hui Xu , Chui-Zhen Chen , X. C. Xie

The quantum anomalous Hall effect can occur in single and few layer graphene systems that have both exchange fields and spin-orbit coupling. In this paper, we present a study of the quantum anomalous Hall effect in single-layer and gated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Wang-Kong Tse , Zhenhua Qiao , Yugui Yao , A. H. MacDonald , Qian Niu

The anomalous Hall effect (AHE) is a topology-related transport phenomenon being of potential interest in spintronics, because this effect enables the efficient probe of magnetic orders (i.e., data readout in memory devices). It is well…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-19 Longju Yu , Hong Jian Zhao , Yurong Yang , Laurent Bellaiche , Yanming Ma