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This work reports a study of the nonlinear Hall Effect (HE) in the semimetallic ferromagnet EuB6. A distinct switch in its Hall resistivity slope is observed in the paramagnetic phase, which occurs at a single critical magnetization over a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-09-01 Xiaohang Zhang , Liuqi Yu , Stephan von Molnar , Zachary Fisk , Peng Xiong

Over a long period of exploration, the successful observation of quantized version of anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in thin film of magnetically-doped topological insulator completed a quantum Hall trio---quantum Hall effect (QHE), quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-18 Hongming Weng , Rui Yu , Xiao Hu , Xi Dai , Zhong Fang

The interplay between electronic interactions and strong spin-orbit coupling is expected to create a plethora of fascinating correlated topological states of quantum matter. Of particular interest are magnetic Weyl semimetals originally…

In a GaAs/AlGaAs two-dimensional electron system with two occupied subbands, the experimentally determined phase diagram in the density-magnetic field plane exhibits rich topological features. Ring-like structures are observed at even…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 X. C. Zhang , D. R. Faulhaber , H. W. Jiang

We study theoretically the two-dimensional topological electric state in a single band semiconductor with strong spin-orbit interactions under harmonic scalar electrostatic potentials. The electronic states described by the spin Landau…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-25 Tetsuro Habe , Yasuhiro Asano

Magnetically doped topological insulators (TIs) exhibit two distinct phases: the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) phase when the Fermi level resides within the surface gap, and a metallic phase outside the gap. The QAH phase hosts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Le Yi , Emma Steinebronn , Asmaul Smitha Rashid , Nitin Samarth , Ramy El-Ganainy , Sahin L. Ozdemir , Morteza Kayyalha

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

Fractional quantum Hall states (FQHSs) at even-denominator Landau level filling factors ($\nu$) are of prime interest as they are predicted to host exotic, topological states of matter. We report here the observation of a FQHS at $\nu=1/2$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-21 Md. Shafayat Hossain , M. K. Ma , Y. J. Chung , S. K. Singh , A. Gupta , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin , L. N. Pfeiffer , R. Winkler , M. Shayegan

The integer quantum Hall effect is a topological state of quantum matter in two dimensions, and has recently been observed in three-dimensional topological insulator thin films. Here we study the Landau levels and edge states of surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 Song-Bo Zhang , Hai-Zhou Lu , Shun-Qing Shen

Interesting non-Abelian states, e.g., the Moore-Read Pfaffian and the anti-Pfaffian, offer candidate descriptions of the $\nu = 5/2$ fractional quantum Hall state. But the significant controversy surrounding the nature of the $\nu = 5/2$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-04-16 Kiryl Pakrouski , Michael R. Peterson , Thierry Jolicoeur , Vito W. Scarola , Chetan Nayak , Matthias Troyer

The non-centrosymmetric topological material has attracted intense attention due to its superior characters as compared to the centrosymmetric one. On one side, the topological phase coming from global geometric properties of the quantum…

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators are two-dimensional (2D) insulating states exhibiting properties similar to those of quantum Hall states but without external magnetic field. They have quantized Hall conductance $\sigma^H=Ce^2/h$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-29 Chen Fang , Matthew J. Gilbert , B. Andrei Bernevig

The anomalous Hall effect has considerable impact on the progress of condensed matter physics and occurs in systems with time-reversal symmetry breaking. Here we theoretically investigate the anomalous Hall effect in nonmagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-31 Huan-Wen Wang , Bo Fu , Shun-Qing Shen

In 2+1-dimensions (2+1D), a gapped quantum phase with no symmetry (i.e. a topological order) can have a thermal Hall conductance $\kappa_{xy}=c \frac{\pi^2 k_B^2}{3h}T$, where the dimensionless $c$ is called chiral central charge. If there…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-07 Oscar Randal-Williams , Lokman Tsui , Xiao-Gang Wen

Topological phases with insulating bulk and gapless surface or edge modes have attracted much attention because of their fundamental physics implications and potential applications in dissipationless electronics and spintronics. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-18 Yafei Ren , Zhenhua Qiao , Qian Niu

Topological materials ranging from topological insulators to semimetals host many novel quantum phenomena including quantum spin Hall effect and topological Fermi arcs. Transitions between these topological phases have attracted much…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Changcang Qiao , Chen-Chia Hsu , Tao Zhang , Zhiming Sun , Dong Qian , Yang-hao Chan , Peng Chen

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

We report quantitative measurements of the impact of alloy disorder on the $\nu=5/2$ fractional quantum Hall state. Alloy disorder is controlled by the aluminum content $x$ in the Al$_x$Ga$_{1-x}$As channel of a quantum well. We find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Nianpei Deng , G. C. Gardner , S. Mondal , E. Kleinbaum , M. J. Manfra , G. A. Csáthy

A proposal of the existence of an {\em Anomalous} phase ($\mathcal{A}$ phase) [https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.056202 Das et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 056202 (2023)] at the experimental range of moderate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-13 Sudipto Das , Sahana Das , Sudhansu S. Mandal

The fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect refers to the strongly-correlated phenomena and the associated quantum phases of matter realized in a two-dimensional gas of electrons placed in a large perpendicular magnetic field. In such systems,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-10 Zlatko Papić , Ajit C. Balram