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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

In a magnetic topological insulator, nontrivial band topology conspires with magnetic order to produce exotic states of matter that are best exemplified by quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators and axion insulators. Up till now, such…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-18 Yujun Deng , Yijun Yu , Meng Zhu Shi , Jing Wang , Xian Hui Chen , Yuanbo Zhang

We propose that a quantum anomalous Hall insulator (QAHI) can be realized in a nanopatterned two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with a small in-plane magnetic field and a high carrier density. The Berry curvatures originating from the…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-08-25 Yongping Zhang , Chuanwei Zhang

Topological insulators lacking time-reversal symmetry can exhibit the quantum anomalous Hall effect. Odd-layer thick MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ is a promising platform due to its intrinsic magnetic nature, however, quantization is rarely observed in…

We investigate magnetotransport in exfoliated nanostructures of the candidate magnetic 3D topological insulator $\mathrm{EuSn_{2}As_{2}}$. Similar to macroscopic single crystals, the negative magnetoresistance observed below the N\'eel…

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

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

Topological crystalline insulator (TCI) is a recently-discovered topological phase of matter. It possesses multiple Dirac surface states, which are protected by the crystal symmetry. This is in contrast to the time reversal symmetry that is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-15 Fei Wang , Hongrui Zhang , Jue Jiang , Yi-Fan Zhao , Jia Yu , Wei Liu , Da Li , Moses H. W. Chan , Jirong Sun , Zhidong Zhang , Cui-Zu Chang

The possibility of quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) in two-dimensional kagome systems with $d$-orbital electrons is studied within a multi-orbital tight-binding model. We concentrate on the case of isotropic Slater-Koster integrals…

The quantum anomalous Hall effect is a intriguing quantum state which exhibits the chiral edge states in the absence of magnetic field. While the search for quantum anomalous Hall insulators is still active, the researchers mainly search…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Ping Li , Tian-Yi Cai

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

We report Chern insulating phases emerging from a single layer of layered chalcogenide CrSiTe$_{3}$, a transition metal trichacogenides (TMTC) material, in the presence of charge doping. Due to strong hybridization with Te $p$ orbitals, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-12 Sungmo Kang , Seungjin Kang , Heung-Sik Kim , Jaejun Yu

To realize the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) at elevated temperatures, the approach of magnetic proximity effect (MPE) was adopted to break the time-reversal symmetry in the topological insulator (Bi0.3Sb0.7)2Te3 (BST) based…

Conventional topological classification theory dictates that time-reversal symmetry confines the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect to a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ classification, permitting only a single pair of gapless helical edge states. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Zhiyu Chen , Fangyang Zhan , Zheng Qin , Da-Shuai Ma , Dong-Hui Xu , Rui Wang

The half-quantized anomalous Hall conductance (AHC) in topological materials is a condensed matter physics realization of the parity anomaly of (2+1) quantum field theory and an important challenge for both theoretical and experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Shahid Sattar , Roman Stepanov , Alexander Tyner , M. F. Islam , A. H. MacDonald , C. M. Canali

Two-dimensional (2D) metallic altermagnets present exciting opportunities for both fundamental research and practical innovations. Their ability to enhance tunneling magnetoresistance in magnetic tunnel junctions, combined with the direct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Raghottam M. Sattigeri , Xujia Gong , Amar Fakhredine , Carmine Autieri , Giuseppe Cuono

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect is a quintessential consequence of non-zero Berry curvature in momentum-space. The QAH insulator harbors dissipation-free chiral edge states in the absence of an external magnetic field. On the other…

Different from the two-dimensional (2D) topological insulator, the 2D topological crystalline insulator (TCI) phase disappears when the mirror symmetry is broken, e.g., upon placing on a substrate. Here, based on a new family of 2D TCIs -…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 C. Niu , P. M. Buhl , G. Bihlmayer , D. Wortmann , S. Blugel , Y. Mokrousov

Quantized anomalous Hall effects (QAHEs) occur in remarkable electronic states which possess not only quantized Hall signals but in some cases regions of dissipationless electron transport. The initial demonstrations of a QAHE in a…

Electron correlation and topology are two central threads of modern condensed matter physics. Semiconductor moir\'e materials provide a highly tunable platform for studies of electron correlation. Correlation-driven phenomena, including the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Tingxin Li , Shengwei Jiang , Bowen Shen , Yang Zhang , Lizhong Li , Trithep Devakul , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Liang Fu , Jie Shan , Kin Fai Mak
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