Prize Talk: Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize I Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect and Beyond

Qi-Kun XUE

Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China

 

The quantum Hall effect (QHE), a quantized version of the Hall effect [1], was observed in two-dimensional (2D) electron systems under magnetic field more than 40 years ago [2, 3]. The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect refers to a quantized version of the anomalous Hall effect [4], which doesn’t require an external magnetic field. It had been predicted to occur in “2D graphite” with broken time reversal invariance [5], and more recently in 2D magnetic topological insulators [6, 7]. It was first experimentally observed in thin films of magnetically doped (Bi,Sb)₂Te₃ topological insulator in 2013 [8]. In this talk, the history and main experiments in the study of QAH effect are presented. Recent development and applications of QAH effect will also be discussed.

 

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[6]  M. Z. Hasan, C. L. Kane, Rev. Mod. Phys. 82, 3045 (2010).

[7]  X. L. Qi, S. C. Zhang, Rev. Mod. Phys. 83, 1057 (2011).

[8]  C. Z. Chang et al., Science 340, 167 (2013).