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Quantum materials combining magnetism and topological fermions are a key platform for low-energy electronics, spintronics, and quantum phases that break time-reversal symmetry (TRS), such as the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE).…

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect in magnetic topological insulator (TI) is a novel transport phenomenon in which the Hall resistance reaches the quantum plateau in the absence of external magnetic field. Recently, this exotic effect has…

The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) in magnetic topological insulators offers great potential to revolutionize quantum electrical metrology by establishing primary resistance standards operating at zero external magnetic field and…

The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE), the last member of Hall family, was predicted to exhibit quantized Hall conductivity e2/h without any external magnetic field. The QAHE shares a similar physical phenomenon with the integer quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Cui-Zu Chang , Mingda Li

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

Altermagnets represent a recently discovered class of collinear magnets, characterized by antiparallel neighboring magnetic moments and alternating-sign spin polarization in momentum-space($k$-space). However, experimental methods for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-27 Rui Chen , Zi-Ming Wang , Hai-Peng Sun , Bin Zhou , Dong-Hui Xu

We study the practicability of achieving quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect with field-tunable Chern number in a magnetically doped, topologically trivial insulating thin film. Specifically in a candidate material,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-06 Le Quy Duong , Hsin Lin , Wei-Feng Tsai , Y. P. Feng

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect in magnetic topological insulators is driven by the combination of spontaneous magnetic moments and spin-orbit coupling. Its recent experimental discovery raises the question if higher plateaus can also…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-26 Jing Wang , Biao Lian , Haijun Zhang , Yong Xu , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Due to the potential applications in the low-power-consumption spintronic devices, the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) has attracted tremendous attention in past decades. However, up to now, QAHE was only observed experimentally in…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-13 Zhen Zhang , Jing-Yang You , Xing-Yu Ma , Bo Gu , Gang Su

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

Magnetic materials exhibiting topological Dirac fermions are attracting significant attention for their promising technological potential in spintronics. In these systems, the combined effect of the spin-orbit coupling and magnetic order…

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 anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators are two-dimensional (2D) insulating states exhibiting properties similar to those of quantum Hall states but without external magnetic field. They have quantized Hall conductance $\sigma^H=Ce^2/h$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-29 Chen Fang , Matthew J. Gilbert , B. Andrei Bernevig

The anomalous Hall effect (AHE) is a non-linear Hall effect appearing in magnetic conductors, boosted by internal magnetism beyond what is expected from the ordinary Hall effect. With the recent discovery of the quantized version of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-05-06 Jisoo Moon , Jinwoong Kim , Nikesh Koirala , Maryam Salehi , David Vanderbilt , Seongshik Oh

We investigate the emergence of quantum anomalous Hall conductivity in a two-dimensional $d$-wave altermagnet on a Lieb lattice under an external magnetic field. Altermagnetic order induces momentum-dependent spin splitting without net…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Meysam Bagheri Tagani , Amar Fakhredine , Carmine Autieri

We propose to realize the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) in two-dimensional compensated antiferromagnets without net spin magnetization.} We consider antiferromagnetic MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ as a concrete example. \textcolor{blue}{By breaking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Wenhao Liang , Jiaqi An , Zeyu Li , Yafei Ren , Zhenhua Qiao , Qian Niu

The possibility of dissipationless chiral edge states without the need of an external magnetic field in the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) offers a great potential in electronic/spintronic applications. The biggest hurdle for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-12 Simon Mellaerts , Ruishen Meng , Mariela Menghini , Valeri Afanasiev , Jin Won Seo , Michel Houssa , Jean-Pierre Locquet

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect has recently been realized in thin films of intrinsic magnetic topological insulators (IMTIs) like MnBi$_2$Te$_4$. Here we point out that that the QAH gaps of these IMTIs can be optimized, and that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-20 Chao Lei , Allan H. MacDonald

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) state is a two-dimensional topological insulating state that has quantized Hall resistance of h/Ce2 and vanishing longitudinal resistance under zero magnetic field, where C is called the Chern number. The…

We theoretically report that, with \textit{in-plane} magnetization, the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) can be realized in two-dimensional atomic crystal layers with preserved inversion symmetry but broken out-of-plane mirror…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-21 Yafei Ren , Junjie Zeng , Xinzhou Deng , Fei Yang , Hui Pan , Zhenhua Qiao