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The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect is a quintessential consequence of non-zero Berry curvature in momentum-space. The QAH insulator harbors dissipation-free chiral edge states in the absence of an external magnetic field. On the other…

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect in magnetic topological insulator (TI) is a novel transport phenomenon in which the Hall resistance reaches the quantum plateau in the absence of external magnetic field. Recently, this exotic effect has…

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect have been experimentally observed in magnetically-doped topological insulators. However, the QAH effect only at extremely low temperatures due to the weak magnetic coupling, small band gap and low…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-24 Ping Li , Tian-Yi Cai

Recently, antiferromagnetic (AF) materials have attracted rapid attention, because they are considered as outstanding candidates to replace the widely used ferromagnets in the next generation of spintronics. We propose a magnetoresistance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Wei-Tao Lu , Qing-Feng Sun

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Ling-Jie Zhou , Deyi Zhuo , Ruobing Mei , Yi-Fan Zhao , Kaijie Yang , Ruoxi Zhang , Zijie Yan , Han Tay , Moses H. W. Chan , Chao-Xing Liu , Cui-Zu Chang

The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) hosts the dissipationless chiral edge states associated with the nonzero Chern number, providing potentially significant applications in future spintronics. The QAHE usually occurs in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-08-08 Y. J. Jin , R. Wang , B. W. Xia , B. B. Zheng , H. Xu

We study the possibility of realizing quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) with tunable Chern number through doping magnetic elements in the multi-layer topological insulator film. We find that high Chern number QAHE phases exist in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Hua Jiang , Zhenhua Qiao , Haiwen Liu , Qian Niu

The quantized version of the anomalous Hall effect has been predicted to occur in magnetic topological insulators, but the experimental realization has been challenging. Here, we report the observation of the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH)…

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect is a quantum Hall effect that occurs without the need of external magnetic field. A system composed of multiple parallel QAH layers is an effective high Chern number QAH insulator and the key to the…

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

The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) is a topological state of matter with a quantized Hall resistance. It has been observed in some two-dimensional insulating materials such as magnetic topological insulator films and twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-06 Kai-Zhi Bai , Bo Fu , Zhenyu Zhang , Shun-Qing Shen

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect is a novel topological spintronic phenomenon arising from inherent magnetization and spin-orbit coupling. Various theoretical and experimental efforts have been devoted in search of robust intrinsic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-01-18 Chengxi Huang , Jian Zhou , Haiping Wu , Kaiming Deng , Puru Jena , Erjun Kan

The Hall effect, the anomalous Hall effect and the spin Hall effect are fundamental transport processes in solids arising from the Lorentz force and the spin-orbit coupling respectively. The quantum versions of the Hall effect and the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-13 Rui Yu , Wei Zhang , H. J. Zhang , S. C. Zhang , Xi Dai , Zhong Fang

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

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

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

Moir\'e materials provide fertile ground for the correlated and topological quantum phenomena. Among them, the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect, in which the Hall resistance is quantized even under zero magnetic field, is a direct…

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

Recent years have witnessed tremendous success in the discovery of topological states of matter. Particularly, sophisticated theoretical methods in time-reversal-invariant topological phases have been developed, leading to the comprehensive…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-26 Jinbo Pan , Jiabin Yu , Yan-Fang Zhang , Shixuan Du , Anderson Janotti , Chao-Xing Liu , Qimin Yan

We generalize the topological phase diagram of magnetic topological insulator (TI) thin films in an extended parameter space comprising out-of-plane (OP) and in-plane (IP) exchange fields in the presence of structural inversion asymmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-03 Kiminori Hattori