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The concept of Chern insulators is one of the most important buliding block of topological physics, enabling the quantum Hall effect without external magnetic fields. The construction of Chern insulators has been typically through an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-24 Sungjong Woo , Seungbum Woo , Jung-Wan Ryu , Hee Chul Park

We explore the critical properties of a topological transition in a two-dimensional, amorphous lattice with randomly distributed points. The model intrinsically breaks the time-reversal symmetry without an external magnetic field, akin to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 Soumya Bera , Johannes Dieplinger , Naba P Nayak

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…

We investigate the fractional energy spectrum and quantum Hall response of a two-dimensional 1/5-depleted square lattice subjected to a perpendicular magnetic field. Using a tight-binding model that includes both nearest-neighbor (t_1) and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-02 Sara Aghtouman , Godfrey Gumbs , Mir Vahid Hosseini

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

We investigate a transition between a two-dimensional topological insulator conduction state, characterized by a conductance $G=2$ (in fundamental units $e^2/h$) and a Chern insulator with $G=1$, induced by polarized magnetic impurities.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 Laurent Raymond , Alberto D. Verga , Arnaud Demion

Two-dimensional systems with honeycomb lattice are known to be a paradigmatic platform to explore the various types of Hall effects, owing to that the interplay of lattice geometry, spin-orbit coupling and magnetism can give rise to very…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Zheng-Yang Zhuang , Zhongbo Yan

We investigate the algebraic structure of flat energy bands a partial filling of which may give rise to a fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect (or a fractional Chern insulator) and a fractional quantum spin Hall effect. Both effects…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-19 M. O. Goerbig

A peculiar feature of the majority of three dimensional topological insulator surface states studied experimentally thus far, namely their particle-hole asymmetry, makes quantum oscillations (Shubnikov de Haas and de Haas van Alphen…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-14 Anthony R. Wright

We predict a quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE) in the ferromagnetic graphene under a magnetic field. Unlike the previous QSHE, this QSHE appears in the absence of any spin-orbit interaction, thus, arrived from a different physical origin. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Qing-feng Sun , X. C. Xie

The topological Hall effect (THE) of electrons in skyrmion crystals is strongly related to the quantum Hall effect (QHE) on lattices. This relation suggests to revisit the QHE because its Hall conductivity can be unconventionally quantized.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-17 Börge Göbel , Alexander Mook , Jürgen Henk , Ingrid Mertig

We consider quantum spin Hall effect in an anisotropic strip of stripes and address both integer and fractional filling factors. The first model is based on a gradient of spin-orbit interaction in the direction perpendicular to the stripes.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-01 Jelena Klinovaja , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Chern insulator or quantum anomalous Hall state is a topological state with integer Hall conductivity but in absence of Landau level. It had been well established on various two-dimensional lattices with periodic structure. Here, we report…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Ai-Lei He , Lu-Rong Ding , Yuan Zhou , Yi-Fei Wang , Chang-De Gong

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

We present the theory of a new type of topological quantum order which is driven by the spin-orbit density wave order parameter, and distinguished by $Z_2$ topological invariant. We show that when two oppositely polarized chiral bands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Gaurav Kumar Gupta , Tanmoy Das

The topological insulator is an electronic phase stabilized by spin-orbit coupling that supports propagating edge states and is not adiabatically connected to the ordinary insulator. In several ways it is a spin-orbit-induced analogue in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-16 Andrew M. Essin , J. E. Moore

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…

We consider a time reversal symmetry (TRS) broken Kane-Mele model superimposed with Haldane model and chart out the phase diagram using spin Chern number to investigate the fate of quantum anomalous Hall insulator (QAHI) and quantum spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-29 Sudarshan Saha , Tanay Nag , Saptarshi Mandal

Spin Hall effect (SHE), a fundamental transport phenomenon with non-zero spin current but vanishing charge current, has important applications in spintronics for the electrical control of spins. Owing to the half-spin nature of electrons,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-03 Junpeng Hou , Ying Su , Chuanwei Zhang

The phenomenon of mesoscopic Spin-Hall effect reveals in a nonequilibrium spin accumulation (driven by electric current) at the edges of a ballistic conductor or, more generally, in the regions with varying electron density. In this paper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-24 P. G. Silvestrov , E. G. Mishchenko