2013/09/30 by Fan Zhang, Zhang, Fan, Xiao Li +8
Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #FOS: Physical sciences #Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el) #Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con) #Topological Materials and Phenomena #cond-mat.mes-hall #cond-mat.str-el #cond-mat.supr-con
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1309.7682
4 pages, 2 figures
arxiv created 2013/09/30 · openalex publication_date 2013/09/30 · arxiv updated 2013/10/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Mirror symmetric surfaces of a topological crystalline insulator host even number of Dirac surface states. A surface Zeeman field generically gaps these states leading to a quantized anomalous Hall effect. Varying the direction of Zeeman field induces transitions between different surface insulating states with any two Chern numbers between -4 and 4. In the crystal frame the phase boundaries occur for field orientations which are great circles with (111)-like normals on a sphere.