Quantum transport in Chern insulators on Möbius strips

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Chern insulators (CIs) or quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) states have drawn more attention, with emergence of quantized Hall conductance but in absence of Landau levels. Here, we study the Haldane-type CI/QAH states on Möbius strips and focus on the quantum transport properties. The Möbius strips can be constructed from the twisted honeycomb-lattice strips with domain walls. Topological properties of the Möbius CI/QAH states can be identified by the local density of states, the real-space Chern numbers and the transport properties. Nearly perfect quantized conductance plateaus are observed in the numerical quantum-transport simulations. In addition, we found that adding magnetic flux in domain walls can induce alternating edge states. At last, we discussed in details the different lead connection schemes, and found that we can use multiple domain walls to obtain various higher quantized conductance plateaus.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:32

Enthalten in:

Journal of physics. Condensed matter : an Institute of Physics journal - 32(2020), 50 vom: 24. Sept.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Liu, Yu [VerfasserIn]
Ding, Lu-Rong [VerfasserIn]
He, Ai-Lei [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Yi-Fei [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Domain wall
Haldane model
Journal Article
Local Chern number
Möbius strip
Quantum transport

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Date Revised 02.02.2022

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1088/1361-648X/abaa83

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM313023859