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A Kramers pair of helical edge states in quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE) is robust against normal dephasing but not robust to spin dephasing. In our work, we provide an effective spin dephasing mechanism in the puddles of two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-07 Junjie Qi , Haiwen Liu , Hua Jiang , X. C. Xie

Due to spin-orbit coupling (SOC), crucial for the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect, a quantized spin-Hall conductivity has not yet been reported in QSH insulators and other realistic materials. Here, we tackle this challenge by predicting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 Run-Wu Zhang , Chaoxi Cui , Yang Wang , Jingyi Duan , Zhi-Ming Yu , Yugui Yao

The quantum Hall (QH) effect, the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect and the quantum valley Hall (QVH) effect are three peculiar topological insulating phases in graphene. They are characterized by three different types of edge states. These…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Yu-Chen Zhuang , Qing-Feng Sun

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators are two-dimensional electronic materials that have a bulk band gap like an ordinary insulator but have topologically protected pairs of edge modes of opposite chiralities. To date, experimental studies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Kaifei Kang , Bowen Shen , Yichen Qiu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jie Shan , Kin Fai Mak

Despite the rapid progresses in the field of quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect, most of the QSH systems studied up to now are based on crystalline materials. Here we propose that the QSH effect can be realized in quasicrystal lattices (QLs).…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-02 Huaqing Huang , Feng Liu

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) system can exhibit exotic spin transport phenomena, mediated by its topological edge states. Here a novel concept of bending strain engineering to tune the spin transport properties of a QSH system is demonstrated by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-20 Bing Huang , Kyung-Hwan Jin , Bin Cui , Feng Zhai , Jiawei Mei , Feng Liu

Recently, antiferromagnetic (AF) materials have attracted rapid attention, because they are considered as outstanding candidates to replace the widely used ferromagnets in the next generation of spintronics. We propose a magnetoresistance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Wei-Tao Lu , Qing-Feng Sun

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect with great promise for the potential application in spintronics and quantum computing has attracted extensive research interest from both theoretical and experimental researchers. Here, we predict monolayer…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-29 Zhaopeng Guo , Dayu Yan , Haohao Sheng , Simin Nie , Youguo Shi , Zhijun Wang

Quantum spin Hall insulators (QSHIs), also known as two-dimensional topological insulators, have emerged as an unconventional class of quantum states with insulating bulk and conducting edges originating from nontrivial inverted band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-11 Takafumi Akiho , François Couëdo , Hiroshi Irie , Kyoichi Suzuki , Koji Onomitsu , Koji Muraki

Driven by various physical origins, the interesting reentrant phenomena in quantum Hall effect (QHE), quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) and non-Hermitian systems have been discussed recently. Here, we present that the reentrant phenomena…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Xiaoyu Cheng , Xiaohong Zheng , Jun Chen , Liantuan Xiao , Suotang Jia , Lei Zhang

We establish a unified, symmetry-driven framework that combines the alternating spin splitting of altermagnets with valley topology to realize and electrically interconvert helical and chiral topological phases within a single material…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Xianzhang Chen , Jiayong Zhang , Bowen Hao , Jiahui Qian , Ziye Zhu , Igor Zutic , Zhenyu Zhang , Tong Zhou

Low-dimensional electronic systems have traditionally been obtained by electrostatically confining electrons, either in heterostructures or in intrinsically nanoscale materials such as single molecules, nanowires, and graphene. Recently, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-12 A. F. Young , J. D. Sanchez-Yamagishi , B. Hunt , S. H. Choi , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , R. C. Ashoori , P. Jarillo-Herrero

Applying electric or magnetic fields is widely used to not only create and manipulate topological states but also facilitate their observations in experiments. In this work, we show by first-principles calculations and topological analysis…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-19 Shi Xiao , Xiaoliang Xiao , Fangyang Zhan , Jing Fan , Xiaozhi Wu , Rui Wang

The search for new quantum spin Hall (QSH) phase and effective manipulations of their edge states are very important for both fundamental sciences and practical applications. Here, we use first-principles calculations to study the…

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect provides dissipationless chiral channels for spin transport, expected as an outstanding candidate in future low-power quantum computation. The spin-splitting band structure is vital for obtaining QAH…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-23 Wenxuan Zhu , Hua Bai , Lei Han , Feng Pan , Cheng Song

The stability to interactions and disorder of the quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE) proposed for time-reversal-invariant 2D systems is discussed. The QSHE requires an energy gap in the bulk and gapless edge modes that conduct spin-up and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-29 Cenke Xu , J. E. Moore

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

The quantum Hall (QH) effect, quantized Hall resistance combined with zero longitudinal resistance, is the characteristic experimental fingerprint of Chern insulators - topologically non-trivial states of two-dimensional matter with broken…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Cui-Zu Chang , Chao-Xing Liu , Allan H. MacDonald

The interplay between non-Hermiticity and topology opens an exciting avenue for engineering novel topological matter with unprecedented properties. While previous studies have mainly focused on one-dimensional systems or Chern insulators,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Junpeng Hou , Ya-Jie Wu , Chuanwei Zhang

We show that edges of Quantum Spin Hall topological insulators represent a natural platform for realization of exotic supersolid phase. On one hand, fermionic edge modes are helical due to the nontrivial topology of the bulk. On the other…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 O. M. Yevtushenko , A. M. Tsvelik