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We predict the emergence a state of matter with intertwined ferromagnetism, charge order and topology in fractionally filled moir\'e superlattice bands. Remarkably, these quantum anomalous Hall crystals exhibit a quantized integer Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 D. N. Sheng , Aidan P. Reddy , Ahmed Abouelkomsan , Emil J. Bergholtz , Liang Fu

At the interface between two-dimensional materials with different topologies, topologically protected one-dimensional states (also named as zero-line modes) arise. Here, we focus on the quantum anomalous Hall effect based zero-line modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-01 Yafei Ren , Junjie Zeng , Ke Wang , Fuming Xu , Zhenhua Qiao

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators with high Chern number host multiple dissipationless chiral edge channels, which are of fundamental interest and promising for applications in spintronics and quantum computing. However, only a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Xiaolin Wan , Zhen Ning , Dong-Hui Xu , Baobing Zheng , Rui Wang

Sub-wavelength cavities have emerged as a promising platform to realize strong light-matter coupling in condensed matter systems. Previous studies are limited to dielectric sub-wavelength cavities, which preserve time-reversal symmetry.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Xinle Cheng , Emil Viñas Boström , Frank Y. Gao , Edoardo Baldini , Dante M. Kennes , Angel Rubio

The understanding of the Chern insulator and anomalous quantum Hall effect (AQHE) in terms of chiral edge states in confined systems is the first aim of the paper. The model we use consists in a diatomic square lattice with hopping to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 B. Ostahie , M. Nita , A. Aldea

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 coexistence of topological magnons and electrons in magnetic materials presents a compelling route toward developing low-dissipation, multifunctional spintronic devices. However, material systems enabling their simultaneous realization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Haozhou Cai , Zhiming Xu , Jian Wu , Weiyi Pan

Multi-terminal topological devices are a new generation of electronic devices with quantized properties robust against imperfections. In magnetic topological insulators, dissipationless edge states give functional devices in zero magnetic…

We present a pedagogical review of the physics of fractional Chern insulators with a particular focus on the connection to the fractional quantum Hall effect. While the latter conventionally arises in semiconductor heterostructures at low…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-05 S. A. Parameswaran , R. Roy , S. L. Sondhi

The fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect has recently been experimentally observed in zero-field fractional Chern insulators (FCI). However, an outstanding challenge is the presence of a substantial longitudinal resistance $R_{xx}$ (a…

Altermagnets, recently proposed as a third category of collinear magnets, combine the features of zero net magnetization in antiferromagnets and the spin splitting in ferromagnets. While abundant spectroscopic evidence for altermagnetism…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-24 Wenbo Wan , Xu Zhang , Yixuan Luo , Yanfeng Guo , Shiyan Li

Recently, fractional quantum anomalous Hall effects have been discovered in two-dimensional moir\'{e} materials when a topologically nontrivial band with Chern number $\mathcal{C}=1$ is partially doped. Remarkably, superlattice Bloch bands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Vo Tien Phong , Cyprian Lewandowski

Recently, the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) has been theoretically proposed in compensated antiferromagnetic systems by using the magnetic topological insulator model [see arXiv:2404.13305 (2024)]. However, the related and systematic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-08 Zeyu Li , Yulei Han , Zhenhua Qiao

To assess prior mean-field claims that the interacting Kane-Mele model hosts a novel $z-$antiferromagnetic (AFM) Chern insulating phase for a wide range of sub-lattice potentials, we analyze the Kane-Mele-Hubbard model in the presence of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-29 Peizhi Mai , Jinchao Zhao , Philip W. Phillips

Ideal Chern insulating phases arise in two-dimensional systems with broken time-reversal symmetry. They are characterized by having nearly-flat bands, and a uniform quantum geometry -- which combines the Berry curvature and quantum metric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-18 Christian Northe , Giandomenico Palumbo , Jonathan Sturm , Christian Tutschku , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

We study the quantum phases driven by interaction in a semimetal with a quadratic band touching at the Fermi level. By combining the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG), analytical power expanded Gibbs potential method, and the weak…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-03 Shouvik Sur , Shou-Shu Gong , Kun Yang , Oskar Vafek

We propose a new mechanism for quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect in the AB stacked MoTe$_2$/WSe$_2$ system. Based on the observation that the inter-layer tunneling is suppressed in the AB stacking, we consider a model with two layers…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-15 Zhihuan Dong , Ya-Hui Zhang

The fractional quantum Hall effect has recently been shown to exist in heterostructures of van der Waals materials without an externally applied magnetic field, e.g. in twisted bilayers of MoTe$_2$. These fractional Chern insulators break…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-23 Sahana Das , Glenn Wagner , Titus Neupert

The search for topologically non-trivial states of matter has become an important goal for condensed matter physics. Here, we give a theoretical introduction to the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect based on magnetic topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-22 Jing Wang , Biao Lian , Shou-Cheng Zhang

The interactions between conduction electrons and magnetism can significantly enhance the Hall signal, a phenomenon known as the anomalous Hall effect (AHE). While the AHE is generally not expected in antiferromagnets, a large AHE is…