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Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators transport charge without resistance along topologically protected chiral one-dimensional edge states. Yet, in magnetic topological insulators (MTI) to date, topological protection is far from robust,…

Motivated by work on the bulk topological proximity effect and the topological bootstrap, we consider two coupled layers of quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators with opposite signs of time-reversal breaking, which leads to a trivial band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-03 Sopheak Sorn

It is shown that the presence of matrix dipole moments induced by external electric fields can modify the Hall response in two dimensional Topological insulators. In the case of the Quantum Anomalous Hall effect the induced transverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Alberto Cortijo

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) phase is a novel topological state of matter characterized by a nonzero quantized Hall conductivity without an external magnetic field. The realizations of QAH effect, however, are experimentally…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-06-09 Ya-ping Wang , Wei-xiao Ji , Chang-wen Zhang , Ping Li , Pei-ji Wang , Biao Kong , Sheng-shi Li , Shi-shen Yan , Kang Liang

We investigate the effect of disorder on topologically nontrivial states in a two dimension (2D) mechanical system. We first propose a quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulator based on an out-of-plane spring-mass model and analytically study the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-09-01 Xiaotian Shi , Rajesh Chaunsali , Georgios Theocharis , Huaqing Huang , Rui Zhu , Jinkyu Yang

We study transport properties and topological phase transition in two-dimensional interacting disordered systems. Within dynamical mean-field theory, we derive the Hall conductance, which is quantized and serves as a topological invariant…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-03-27 Jun-Hui Zheng , Tao Qin , Walter Hofstetter

Topological phases typically encode topology at the level of the single particle band structure. But a remarkable class of models shows that quantum anomalous Hall effects can be driven exclusively by interactions, while the parent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-11 Mengsu Chen , Hoi-Yin Hui , Sumanta Tewari , V. W. Scarola

In the quantum anomalous Hall effect, quantized Hall resistance and vanishing longitudinal resistivity are predicted to result from the presence of dissipationless, chiral edge states and an insulating 2D bulk, without requiring an external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 E. J. Fox , I. T. Rosen , Yanfei Yang , George R. Jones , Randolph E. Elmquist , Xufeng Kou , Lei Pan , Kang L. Wang , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

We investigate nonperturbatively the effect of a magnetic dopant impurity on the edge transport of a quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulator. We show that for a strongly coupled magnetic dopant located near the edge of a system, a pair of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-17 Jun-Hui Zheng , Miguel A. Cazalilla

The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) is a robust topological phenomenon featuring quantized Hall resistance at zero magnetic field. We report the QAHE in a rhombohedral pentalayer graphene/monolayer WS2 heterostructure. Distinct from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Tonghang Han , Zhengguang Lu , Yuxuan Yao , Jixiang Yang , Junseok Seo , Chiho Yoon , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Liang Fu , Fan Zhang , Long Ju

Static disorder in a noninteracting gas of electrons confined to two dimensions can drive a continuous quantum (Anderson) transition between a metallic and an insulating state when time-reversal symmetry is preserved but spin-rotation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-03 Hideaki Obuse , Akira Furusaki , Shinsei Ryu , Christopher Mudry

We show that the quantum anomalous Hall effect almost always occurs in magnetic topological insulator thin films whenever the top and bottom surface layer magnetizations are parallel, independent of the interior layer magnetization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Chao Lei , Olle Heinonen , R. J. McQueeney , A. H. MacDonald

While the ground state phase diagram of the correlated flat-band systems have been intensively investigated, the dynamic and thermodynamic properties of such lattice models are less explored, but it is the latter which is most relevant to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-05 Gaopei Pan , Hongyu Lu , Heqiu Li , Xu Zhang , Bin-Bin Chen , Kai Sun , Zi Yang Meng

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

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…

Magnetically doped topological insulators have been extensively studied over the past decade as a material platform to exhibit quantum anomalous Hall effect. Most material realizations are magnetically doped and despite material advances…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Zhenisbek Tagay , Hee Taek Yi , Deepti Jain , Seongshik Oh , N. P. Armitage

The inverted band structure discovered in InAs/GaSb quantum well (QW) is found to host the topological quantum spin Hall (QSH) states. A QSH insulator hosts counterpropagating spin-polarized edge states that are protected by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-30 Sushmita Saha , Alestin Mawrie

Occurrence of topological Anderson insulator (TAI) in HgTe quantum well suggests that when time-reversal symmetry (TRS) is maintained, the pertinent topological phase transition, marked by re-entrant $2e^2/h$ quantized conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-06 Ying Su , Y. Avishai , X. R. Wang

The integer quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect is a lattice analog of the quantum Hall effect at zero magnetic field. This striking transport phenomenon occurs in electronic systems with topologically nontrivial bands and spontaneous…

So far, experimentally realized quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators all exhibit ferromagnetic order and the QAH effect only occurs at very low temperatures. On the other hand, up to now the QAH effect in antiferromagnetic (AFM)…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-20 Peng-Jie Guo , Zheng-Xin Liu , Zhong-Yi Lu