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We have a comparative study of the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effects induced by non-magnetic and magnetic staggered potentials respectively and show that they have the same effect in driving the topological phase transition. The result…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Huaiming Guo , Shiping Feng , Shun-Qing Shen

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) materials are two-dimensional systems exhibiting insulating bulk and helical edge states simultaneously. A QSH insulator processes topologically non-trivial edge states protected by time-reversal symmetry, so that…

The realization of quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect in HgTe quantum wells (QWs) is considered a milestone in the discovery of topological insulators. The QSH edge states are predicted to allow current to flow at the edges of an insulating…

We study the spin edge states in the quantum spin-Hall (QSH) effect on a single-atomic layer graphene ribbon system with both intrinsic and Rashba spin-orbit couplings. The Harper equation for solving the energies of the spin edge states is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Zhigang Wang , Ningning Hao , Ping Zhang

Altermagnetic (AM) order, a recently discovered magnetic state, has attracted intense research interest for its potential applications in spintronic and quantum technologies. Here, we theoretically investigate the AM state in the Lieb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Qianjun Wang , Ruqian Wu , Jun Hu

A two-dimensional (2D) topological insulator (TI) exhibits the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect, in which topologically protected spin-polarized conducting channels exist at the sample edges. Experimental signatures of the QSH effect have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 Yanmeng Shi , Joshua Kahn , Ben Niu , Zaiyao Fei , Bosong Sun , Xinghan Cai , Brian A. Francisco , Di Wu , Zhi-Xun Shen , Xiaodong Xu , David H. Cobden , Yong-Tao Cui

A promising approach to attain long-distance coherent spin propagation is accessing topological spin-polarized edge states in graphene. Achieving this without external magnetic fields necessitates engineering graphene band structure,…

The quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect in the DC regime, which has been intensively researched, relies on the existence of symmetry-protected edge states. Here, we demonstrate that a QSH system behaves quite differently in response to an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-28 W. Y. Deng , H. Geng , Wei Luo , Wei Chen , L. Sheng , D. N. Sheng , D. Y. Xing

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators are a topologically protected phase of matter in two dimensions that can support non-dissipative spin transport. A hallmark of the phase is a pair of helical edge states surrounding an insulating bulk. A…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-07 Kaifei Kang , Yichen Qiu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jie Shan , Kin Fai Mak

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators exhibit spin-polarized conducting edge states that are topologically protected from backscattering and offer unique opportunities for addressing fundamental science questions and device applications.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Rajibul Islam , Rahul Verma , Barun Ghosh , Zahir Muhammad , Arun Bansil , Carmine Autieri , Bahadur Singh

Physical phenomena driven by topological properties, such as the quantum Hall effect, have the appealing feature to be robust with respect to external perturbations. Lately, a new class of materials has emerged manifesting their topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-17 D. Bercioux , N. Goldman , D. F. Urban

Topologically nontrivial band structure of a material may give rise to special states that are confined to the material's boundary and protected against disorder and scattering. Quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE) is a paradigmatic example of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Luis Alberto Razo López , Pierre Wulles , Geoffroy J. Aubry , Sergey E. Skipetrov , Fabrice Mortessagne

Altermagnetism has attracted considerable interest, yet its associated spintronic phenomena have so far been largely confined to electronic systems. In this work, we uncover a universal symmetry-based strategy for realizing topological…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-30 Bo Yuan , Yingxi Bai , Ying Dai , Baibiao Huang , Chengwang Niu

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect, where electrons with opposite spin channels are deflected to opposite sides of a two-dimensional system with a quantized conductance, was believed to be characterized by a nontrivial topological index…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-16 Lu Liu , Yuntian Liu , Jiayu Li , Hua Wu , Qihang Liu

We propose an optical counterpart of the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect in a two-dimensional photonic crystal composed of a gyrotropic medium exhibiting both gyroelectric and gyromagnetic properties simultaneously. Such QSH effect shows…

The celebrated family of the Hall effect plays a fundamental role in modern physics. Starting from the anomalous Hall effect (AHE) and the quantum AHE (QAHE) with broken time-reversal symmetry (TRS) to their spinful generalizations,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Ya-Jie Wu , Tong Li , Junpeng Hou

Topological insulators are bulk electronic insulators which possess symmetry protected gapless modes on their surfaces. Breaking the symmetries that underlie the gapless nature of the surface modes is predicted to give rise to exotic new…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-15 J. G. Checkelsky , R. Yoshimi , A. Tsukazaki , K. S. Takahashi , Y. Kozuka , J. Falson , M. Kawasaki , Y. Tokura

A quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulator is a novel two-dimensional quantum state of matter that features quantized Hall conductance in the absence of magnetic field, resulting from topologically protected dissipationless edge states that bridge…

The discovery of the Quantum Spin Hall state, and topological insulators in general, has sparked strong experimental efforts. Transport studies of the Quantum Spin Hall state confirmed the presence of edge states, showed ballistic edge…

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) phase is a two-dimensional bulk ferromagnetic insulator with a nonzero Chern number in presence of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) but absence of applied magnetic fields. Associated metallic chiral edge states host…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-28 Jian Zhou , Qi-Feng Liang , Hongming Weng , Y. B. Chen , Shu-Hua Yao , Yan-Feng Chen , Jinming Dong , Guang-Yu Guo