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The surface states of topological insulators, which behave as charged massless Dirac fermions, are studied in the presence of a quantizing uniform magnetic field. Using the method of D.H. Lee[1], analytical formula satisfied by the energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-13 Oskar Vafek

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

Over a long period of exploration, the successful observation of quantized version of anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in thin film of magnetically-doped topological insulator completed a quantum Hall trio---quantum Hall effect (QHE), quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-18 Hongming Weng , Rui Yu , Xiao Hu , Xi Dai , Zhong Fang

The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) that emerges under broken time-reversal symmetry in topological insulators (TI) exhibits many fascinating physical properties for potential applications in nano-electronics and spintronics. However,…

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 quantized version of the anomalous Hall effect has been predicted to occur in magnetic topological insulators, but the experimental realization has been challenging. Here, we report the observation of the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH)…

The three-dimensional (3D) topological insulator (TI) is a novel state of matter as characterized by two-dimensional (2D) metallic Dirac states on its surface. Bi-based chalcogenides such as Bi2Se3, Bi2Te3, Sb2Te3 and their combined/mixed…

The paired top and bottom Dirac surface states, each associated with a half-integer quantum Hall (QH) effect, and a resultant integer QH conductance ({\nu}e2/h), are hallmarks of a three-dimensional (3D) topological insulator (TI). In a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-07 Su Kong Chong , Kyu Bum Han , Taylor D. Sparks , Vikram V. Deshpande

Quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) is a fundamental transport phenomenon in the field of condensed-matter physics. Without external magnetic field, spontaneous magnetization combined with spin-orbit coupling give rise to a quantized Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-08 Z. F. Wang , Zheng Liu , Feng Liu

Topological magnetoelectric effect in a three-dimensional topological insulator is a novel phenomenon, where an electric field induces a magnetic field in the same direction, with a universal coefficient of proportionality quantized in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-21 Jing Wang , Biao Lian , Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

A striking feature of 3 dimensional (3D) topological insulators (TIs) is the theoretically expected topological magneto-electric (TME) effect, which gives rise to additional terms in Maxwell's laws of electromagnetism with an universal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-12 Christian Berger , Florian Bayer , Laurens W. Molenkamp , Tobias Kiessling

We study the quantum Hall effect (QHE) in the three-dimensional topological insulator HgTe, which features topological Dirac-type surface states in a bulk gap opened by strain. Despite the co-existence of multiple carrier subsystems, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-25 S. Hartl , L. Freund , M. Kühn , J. Ziegler , E. Richter , W. Himmler , J. Bärenfänger , D. A. Kozlov , N. N. Mikhailov , J. Weis , D. Weiss

We investigate how a magnetic field induces one-dimensional edge channels when the two-dimensional surface states of three-dimensional topological insulators become gapped. The Hall effect, measured by contacting those channels, remains…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Matthias Sitte , Achim Rosch , Ehud Altman , Lars Fritz

We propose a new pathway to the quantized anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) by coupling an altermagnet to a topological crystalline insulator (TCI). The former gaps the topological surface states of the TCI, thereby realizing the QAHE in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Xuance Jiang , Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Deyu Lu , Jennifer Cano

The creation of topologically non-trivial matter across electronic, mechanical, cold-atom, and photonic platforms is advancing rapidly, yet understanding the breakdown of topological protection remains a major challenge. In this work, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-05 George M. Ferguson , Run Xiao , Anthony R. Richardella , Austin Kaczmarek , Nitin Samarth , Katja C. Nowack

One of the hallmarks of time-reversal-symmetric topological insulators in three dimensions is the topological magnetoelectric effect (TME). So far, a time-reversal breaking variant of this effect has attracted much attention, in the sense…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Heinrich-Gregor Zirnstein , Bernd Rosenow

A topological insulator (TI) interfaced with a magnetic insulator (MI) may host an anomalous Hall effect (AHE), a quantum AHE, and a topological Hall effect (THE). Recent studies, however, suggest that coexisting magnetic phases in TI/MI…

As one of paradigmatic phenomena in condensed matter physics, the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) in stoichiometric Chern insulators has drawn great interest for years. By using model Hamiltonian analysis and first-principle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Hongyi Sun , Bowen Xia , Zhongjia Chen , Yingjie Zhang , Pengfei Liu , Qiushi Yao , Hong Tang , Yujun Zhao , Hu Xu , Qihang Liu

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…

When a two-dimensional electron gas is exposed to a perpendicular magnetic field and an in-plane electric field, its conductance becomes quantized in the transverse in-plane direction: this is known as the quantum Hall (QH) effect. This…