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The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) has been recently demonstrated in Cr- and V-doped three-dimensional topological insulators (TIs) at temperatures below 100 mK. In those materials, the spins of unfilled d-electrons in the transition…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-28 Zilong Jiang , Cui-Zu Chang , Chi Tang , Peng Wei , Jagadeesh S. Moodera , Jing Shi

The Hall effect, the anomalous Hall effect and the spin Hall effect are fundamental transport processes in solids arising from the Lorentz force and the spin-orbit coupling respectively. The quantum versions of the Hall effect and the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-13 Rui Yu , Wei Zhang , H. J. Zhang , S. C. Zhang , Xi Dai , Zhong Fang

Quantum Anomalous Hall (QAH) state in six quintuple layer Cr$_{0.1}$(Bi$_{0.2}$Sb$_{0.8}$)$_{1.9}$Te$_3$ thin films were studied through scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS) and electrical transport measurements. While the surface state is…

The interplay between ferromagnetism and topological properties of electronic band structures leads to a precise quantization of Hall resistance without any external magnetic field. This so-called quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) is…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Shamiul Alam , Md Shafayat Hossain , Ahmedullah Aziz

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

We study the quantum Hall effect (QHE) in the three-dimensional topological insulator HgTe, which features topological Dirac-type surface states in a bulk gap opened by strain. Despite the co-existence of multiple carrier subsystems, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-25 S. Hartl , L. Freund , M. Kühn , J. Ziegler , E. Richter , W. Himmler , J. Bärenfänger , D. A. Kozlov , N. N. Mikhailov , J. Weis , D. Weiss

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

Quantum anomalous Hall effect(QAHE) can only be realized at extremely low temperatures in magnetically doped topological insulators(TIs) due to limitations inherent with the doping precess. In an effort to boost the quantization temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-17 Xiong Yao , Bin Gao , Myung-Geun Han , Deepti Jain , Jisoo Moon , Jae Wook Kim , Yimei Zhu , Sang-Wook Cheong , Seongshik Oh

Quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) is a fundamental transport phenomenon in the field of condensed-matter physics. Without external magnetic field, spontaneous magnetization combined with spin-orbit coupling give rise to a quantized Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-08 Z. F. Wang , Zheng Liu , Feng Liu

The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) is an exotic quantum phenomenon originating from dissipation-less chiral channels at the sample edge. While the QAHE has been observed in magnetically doped topological insulators (TIs), exploiting…

The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) has recently been reported to emerge in magnetically-doped topological insulators. Although its general phenomenology is well established, the microscopic origin is far from being properly understood…

In magnetic topological insulators, a phase transition between a quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) and an Anderson localization phase can be triggered by the rotation of an applied magnetic field. Without the scattering paths along magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Kristof Moors , Gen Yin

The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) is a topological state of matter with a quantized Hall resistance. It has been observed in some two-dimensional insulating materials such as magnetic topological insulator films and twisted bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-06 Kai-Zhi Bai , Bo Fu , Zhenyu Zhang , Shun-Qing Shen

The anomalous Hall effect (AHE) is studied on the surface of a 3D magnetic topological insulator. By applying a modified semi-classical framework, all three contributions to the AHE, the intrinsic Berry phase curvature effect, the side-jump…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Amir Sabzalipour , Bart Partoens

By breaking the time-reversal-symmetry in three-dimensional topological insulators with introduction of spontaneous magnetization or application of magnetic field, the surface states become gapped, leading to quantum anomalous Hall effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 R. Yoshimi , K. Yasuda , A. Tsukazaki , K. S. Takahashi , N. Nagaosa , M. Kawasaki , Y. Tokura

A quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulator is characterized by quantized Hall and vanishing longitudinal resistances at zero magnetic field that are protected against local perturbations and independent of sample details. This insensitivity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 G. M. Ferguson , Run Xiao , Anthony R. Richardella , David Low , Nitin Samarth , Katja C. Nowack

Topologically nontrivial electronic states can give rise to novel anomalous Hall effects. The potential appearance of these effects at room temperature holds promise for their application in magnetic sensing, spintronics, and energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-24 Soumya Sankar , Xingkai Cheng , Tahir Murtaza , Caiyun Chen , Yuqi Qin , Xuezhao Wu , Qiming Shao , Rolf Lortz , Junwei Liu , Berthold Jäck

We discover a new topological excitation of two dimensional electrons in the quantum Hall regime. The strain dependence of resistivity is shown to change sign upon crossing filling-factor-specified boundaries of reentrant integer quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-14 Tzu-ging Lin , George Simion , John D. Watson , Michael J. Manfra , Gabor A. Csathy , Yuli Lyanda-Geller , Leonid P. Rokhinson

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 quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE), characterized by dissipationless quantized edge transport, relies crucially on a non-trivial topology of the electronic bulk bandstructure and a robust ferromagnetic order that breaks time-reversal…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-05-01 M. F. Islam , Anna Pertsova , C. M. Canali