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The realization of fractional Chern insulators in moir\'e materials has sparked the search for further novel phases of matter in this platform. In particular, recent works have demonstrated the possibility of realizing quantum anomalous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Raul Perea-Causin , Hui Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz

We propose a new mechanism to explain the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect and the electric-field-induced topological phase transition in AB-stacked MoTe${}_2$/WSe${}_2$ moir\'e heterobilayers at $\nu=1$ hole filling. We suggest that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Yao-Wen Chang , Yia-Chung Chang

The two-dimensional quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect is direct evidence of non-trivial Berry curvature topology in condensed matter physics. Searching for QAH in 2D materials, particularly with simplified fabrication methods, poses a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 Yueh-Ting Yao , Suyang Xu , Tay-Rong Chang

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

We investigate possible phase transitions among the different quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) phases in a zigzag graphene ribbon under the influence of the exchange field. The effective tight-binding Hamiltonian for graphene is made up of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-22 Tsung-Wei Chen , Zhi-Ren Xiao , Dah-Wei Chiou , Guang-Yu Guo

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

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

Moir\'e flatbands with high Chern numbers (C>1) offer opportunities to study the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effects that go beyond the Landau level paradigm with C=1, which remain unexplored yet. Here, we target the novel topological…

Remarkable recent experiments on the moir\'e structure formed by pentalayer rhombohedral graphene aligned with a hexagonal Boron-Nitride substrate report the discovery of a zero field fractional quantum hall effect. These "(Fractional)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-10 Zhihuan Dong , Adarsh S. Patri , T. Senthil

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

We present a symmetry-based analysis of competition between different gapped states that have been proposed in bilayer graphene (BLG), which are all degenerate on a mean field level. We classify the states in terms of a hidden SU(4)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-30 Rahul Nandkishore , Leonid Levitov

Quantum geometry of electronic wavefunctions results in fascinating topological phenomena. A prominent example is the intrinsic anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in which a Hall voltage arises in the absence of an applied magnetic field. The AHE…

In magnetic topological phases of matter, the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect is an emergent phenomenon driven by ferromagnetic doping, magnetic proximity effects and strain engineering. The realization of QAH states with multiple…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 R. Adhikari , V. V. Volobuev , B. Faina , G. Springholz , A. Bonanni

The plateau phase transition in quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators corresponds to a quantum state wherein a single magnetic domain gives way to multiple magnetic domains and then re-converges back to a single magnetic domain. The layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Deyi Zhuo , Ling-Jie Zhou , Yi-Fan Zhao , Ruoxi Zhang , Zi-Jie Yan , Annie G. Wang , Moses H. W. Chan , Chao-Xing Liu , Chui-Zhen Chen , Cui-Zu Chang

The co-presence of multiple Dirac bands in few-layer graphene leads to a rich phase diagram in the quantum Hall regime. Using transport measurements, we map the phase diagram of BN-encapsulated ABA-stacked trilayer graphene as a function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Petr Stepanov , Yafis Barlas , Tim Espiritu , Shi Che , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Dmitry Smirnov , Chun Ning Lau

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

Anomalous Hall crystals (AHCs) are exotic phases of matter that simultaneously break continuous translation symmetry and exhibit the quantum anomalous Hall effect. AHCs have recently been proposed to explain the observation of an integer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-28 Félix Desrochers , Mark R. Hirsbrunner , Joe Huxford , Adarsh S. Patri , T. Senthil , Yong Baek Kim

By constructing germanene (silicene, stanene)/$M$Bi$_2$Te$_4$ ($M$ = 3d-transition elements) heterostructures, we discovered and designed multimechanism quantum-anomalous-Hall (QAH) systems, including $\Gamma$-based QAH, $K$-$K'$-connected…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-18 Zhe Li , Jiatong Zhang , Xiyu Hong , Xiao Feng , Ke He

The plateau-to-plateau transition in quantum Hall effect under high magnetic fields is a celebrated quantum phase transition between two topological states through either sweeping the magnetic field or tuning the carrier density. The recent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Yi-Fan Zhao , Ruoxi Zhang , Ling-Jie Zhou , Ruobing Mei , Zi-Jie Yan , Moses H. W. Chan , Chao-Xing Liu , Cui-Zu Chang

Motivated by the recent experimental breakthrough on the observation of the fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) effects in semiconductor and graphene moir\'{e} materials, we explore the rich physics associated with the coexistence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-27 Xue-Yang Song , Chao-Ming Jian , Liang Fu , Cenke Xu