English
Related papers

Related papers: Three consecutive quantum anomalous Hall gaps in a…

200 papers

It is well known that the intrinsic anomalous Hall effect (AHE) arises from the integration of the non-zero Berry curvature (BC), conventionally observed in the Dirac/Weyl and nodal-line semimetals. Moreover, nodal surface semimetals are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Shu-Xiang Li , Wencheng Wang , Sheng Xu , Tianhao Li , Zheng Li , Jinjin Wang , Jun-Jian Mi , Qian Tao , Feng Tang , Xiangang Wan , Zhu-An Xu

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

Anomalous Hall effect (AHE), occurring in materials with broken time-reversal symmetry, epitomizes the intricate interplay between magnetic order and orbital motions of electrons[1-4]. In two dimensional (2D) systems, AHE is always coupled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 Qingxin Li , Hua Fan , Min Li , Yinghai Xu , Junwei Song , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Hua Jiang , X. C. Xie , James Hone , Cory Dean , Yue Zhao , Jianpeng Liu , Lei Wang

Fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) effect, a lattice analogue of fractional quantum Hall effect, offers a unique pathway toward fault-tolerant quantum computation and deep insights into the interplay of topology and strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Wenqi Yang , Dawei Zhai , Wang Yao

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

Quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) has been experimentally realized in magnetically-doped topological insulators or intrinsic magnetic topological insulator MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ by applying an external magnetic field. However, either the low…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-22 Shifei Qi , Ruiling Gao , Maozhi Chang , Yulei Han , Zhenhua Qiao

Finding guiding principles to optimize properties of quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators is of pivotal importance to fundamental science and applications. Here, we build a first-principles QAH material database of chirality and band…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-18 Zhiming Xu , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

The 'magnetoelectric effect' arises from the coupling between magnetic and electric properties in materials. The Z2 invariant of topological insulators (TIs) leads to a quantized version of this phenomenon, known as the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Di Xiao , Jue Jiang , Jae-Ho Shin , Wenbo Wang , Fei Wang , Yi-Fan Zhao , Chaoxing Liu , Weida Wu , Moses H. W. Chan , Nitin Samarth , Cui-Zu Chang

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) state is a two-dimensional topological insulating state that has quantized Hall resistance of h/Ce2 and vanishing longitudinal resistance under zero magnetic field, where C is called the Chern number. The…

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 effect (QAHE) and magnetic Weyl semimetals (WSMs) are topological states induced by intrinsic magnetic moments and spin-orbit coupling. Their similarity suggests the possibility of achieving the QAHE by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-26 Lukas Muechler , Enke Liu , Jacob Gayles , Qiunan Xu , Claudia Felser , Yan Sun

The recent experimental observation of quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effects in the rhombohedrally stacked pentalayer graphene has motivated theoretical discussions on the possibility of quantum anomalous Hall crystal (QAHC), a topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-10 Boran Zhou , Ya-Hui Zhang

The Kagome metal Potassium Tri-vanadium Pent-antimonide can support the quantum anomalous Hall effect theoretically. This is justified by flat bands and Dirac points susceptible to gap opening by spin-orbit coupling or magnetic ordering.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Partha Goswami

We present a paradoxical finding that, in the vicinity of a topological phase transition in a quantum anomalous Hall system (Chern insulator), topology nearly always (except when the system obeys charge-conjugation symmetry) results in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-07 Denis R. Candido , Maxim Kharitonov , J. Carlos Egues , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

Strongly interacting electrons in a topologically non trivial band may form exotic phases of matter. An especially intriguing example of which is the fractional quantum anomalous Hall phase, recently discovered in twisted transition metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-18 Gal Shavit

Recent developments in solid state physics give a prospect to observe the parity anomaly in (2+1)D massive Dirac systems. Here we show, that the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) state in orbital magnetic fields originates from the Dirac mass…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Jan Böttcher , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

Electrons in topological flat bands can form novel topological states driven by the correlation effects. The penta-layer rhombohedral graphene/hBN moire superlattice has been shown to host fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect (FQAHE) at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Zhengguang Lu , Tonghang Han , Yuxuan Yao , Jixiang Yang , Junseok Seo , Lihan Shi , Shenyong Ye , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Long Ju

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

The exploration of magnetic topological insulators is instrumental in exploring axion electrodynamics and intriguing transport phenomena, such as the quantum anomalous Hall effect. Here, we report that a family of magnetic compounds…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-07 Yufei Zhao , Yiyang Jiang , Hyeonhu Bae , Kamal Das , Yongkang Li , Chao-Xing Liu , Binghai Yan

The layered antiferromagnetic MnBi2Te4 films have been proposed to be an intrinsic quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulator with a large gap. To realize this proposal, it is crucial to open a magnetic gap of surface states. However, recent…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-02 Huixia Fu , Chao-Xing Liu , Binghai Yan