相关论文: Large-Gap Quantum Spin Hall States in Stanene Grow…

Two-dimensional quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators with reasonably wide band gaps are imperative for the development of various innovative technologies. Through systematic density functional calculations and tight-binding simulations, we…

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect is quite promising for applications in spintronics and quantum computations, but presently can only be achieved at ultralow temperature. Searching for large-gap QSH insulators is the key to increase the…

Two-dimensional dumbbell (DB) stanene has been proposed as a promising candidate material for realizing quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE) by Tang et al [P. Tang, P. Chen, W. Cao, H. Huang, S. Cahangirov, L. Xian, Y. Xu, S. C. Zhang, W. Duan,…

Stanene (single-layer grey tin), with an electronic structure akin to that of graphene but exhibiting a much larger spin-orbit gap, offers a promising platform for room-temperature electronics based on the quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect.…

In search for a new generation of spintronics hardware, material candidates for room temperature quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE) have become a contemporary focus of investigation. Inspired by the original proposal for QSHE in graphene,…

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…

Stanene was proposed to be a quantum spin hall insulator containing topological edges states and a time reversal invariant topological superconductor hosting helical Majorana edge mode. Recently, experimental evidences of existence of…

The search of large-gap quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators and effective approaches to tune QSH states is important for both fundamental and practical interests. Based on first-principles calculations we find two-dimensional tin films are…

Large-gap quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators were previously predicted in stanene and its derivatives. Beyond stanene that is the thinnest $\alpha$-Sn(111) film, we propose to explore QSH insulators in $\alpha$-Sn films with different…

A single atomic slice of {\alpha}-tin-stanene-has been predicted to host quantum spin Hall effect at room temperature, offering an ideal platform to study low-dimensional and topological physics. While recent research has intensively…

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) state of matter has a charge excitation bulk bandgap and a pair of gapless spin-filtered edge-states, which can support backscattering-free transport. Bilayer phosphorene possesses a large tunable bandgap and high…

A quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulator is a novel two-dimensional quantum state of matter that features quantized Hall conductance in the absence of magnetic field, resulting from topologically protected dissipationless edge states that bridge…

The quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE) has formed the seed for contemporary research on topological quantum states of matter. Since its discovery in HgTe/CdTe quantum wells and AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructures, all such systems have so far been…

Stanene, a single atomic layer of Sn in a honeycomb lattice, is predicted a candidate wide bandgap two-dimensional (2D) topological insulator and can host intriguing topological states of matter such as quantum anomalous Hall effect and…

In recent years, 2D materials have attracted increasing attention from the scientific community due to their superlative properties. The stanene, a graphene like compound formed by Sn atoms, may have unique properties because of the…

A novel topological insulator with tunable edge states, called quantum spin-quantum anomalous Hall (QSQAH) insulator, is predicted in a heterostructure of a hydrogenated Sb (SbH) monolayer on a LaFeO3 substrate by using ab initio methods.…

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) materials promise revolutionary device applications based on dissipationless propagation of spin currents. They are two-dimensional (2D) representatives of the family of topological insulators, which exhibit…

Graphene is the first model system of two-dimensional topological insulator (TI), also known as quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulator. The QSH effect in graphene, however, has eluded direct experimental detection because of its extremely small…

We study the effects of spin orbit interactions on the low energy electronic structure of a single plane of graphene. We find that in an experimentally accessible low temperature regime the symmetry allowed spin orbit potential converts…

We predict from first-principles calculations a novel structure of stanene with dumbbell units (DB), and show that it is a two-dimensional topological insulator with inverted band gap which can be tuned by compressive strain. Furthermore,…