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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

We investigate the interaction between quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) phases hosted by two atomically thin hexagonal lattices and demonstrate the emergence of topological phases with large Chern numbers. Interlayer coupling between two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 H. Minh Lam , V. Nam Do

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

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…

We consider a rhombohedral-stacked $N$-layer graphene coupled to a monolayer of Haldane model. We show that high order Dirac points in multilayer graphene can be gapped out by topological proximity effect of the Haldane model layer, leading…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-25 Yuejiu Zhao , Long Zhang , Fu-Chun Zhang

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

We theoretically investigate the manipulation of the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) in graphene by means of the uniaxial strain. The values of Chern number and Hall conductance demonstrate that the strained graphene in presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-07 G. S. Diniz , M. R. Guassi , F. Qu

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

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect, a condensed matter analog of the parity anomaly, is characterized by a quantized Hall conductivity in the absence of an external magnetic field. However, it has been recently shown that, even in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-13 Jan Böttcher , Christian Tutschku , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

Recent experiments on pentalayer rhombohedral graphene moir\'e superlattices have observed the quantum anomalous Hall effect at moir\'e filling factor of $\nu = 1$ and various fractional values. These phenomena are attributed to a flat…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-30 Koji Kudo , Ryota Nakai , Kentaro Nomura

The experimentally observed correlated insulating states and quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) have drawn significant attention. However, up to date, the specific mechanisms of these intriguing phenomena…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-27 Jianpeng Liu , Xi Dai

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) state is a two-dimensional bulk insulator with a non-zero Chern number in absence of external magnetic fields. Protected gapless chiral edge states enable dissipationless current transport in electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-25 Hai-Jun Zhang , Xiao Zhang , Shou-Cheng Zhang

The fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect (FQAHE) is a fascinating emergent quantum state characterized by fractionally charged excitations in the absence of magnetic field,which could arise from the intricate interplay between electron…

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 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…

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

We use a lowest Landau level model to study the recent observation of an anomalous Hall effect in twisted bilayer graphene. This effective model is rooted in the occurrence of Chern bands which arise due to the coupling between the graphene…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-28 Nick Bultinck , Shubhayu Chatterjee , Michael P. Zaletel

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect provides dissipationless chiral channels for spin transport, expected as an outstanding candidate in future low-power quantum computation. The spin-splitting band structure is vital for obtaining QAH…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-23 Wenxuan Zhu , Hua Bai , Lei Han , Feng Pan , Cheng Song

We investigate an effective model of proximity modified graphene (or symmetrylike materials) with broken time-reversal symmetry. We predict the appearance of quantum anomalous Hall phases by computing bulk band gap and Chern numbers for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-07 Petra Högl , Tobias Frank , Klaus Zollner , Denis Kochan , Martin Gmitra , Jaroslav Fabian

Quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) is a fundamental quantum transport phenomenon in condensed matter physics. Until now, the only experimental realization of the QAHE has been observed for Cr/V-doped (Bi,Sb)$_2$Te$_3$ but at extremely low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-08 Xinzhou Deng , Hualing Yang , Shifei Qi , Xiaohong Xu , Zhenhua Qiao