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arxiv: 2407.12198 · v1 · submitted 2024-07-16 · ❄️ cond-mat.str-el · cond-mat.mes-hall

Doping-induced Quantum Anomalous Hall Crystals and Topological Domain Walls

Miguel Gon\c{c}alves , Shi-Zeng Lin This is my paper

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Doping electrons into the Kane-Mele-Hubbard model at filling one produces quantum anomalous Hall crystals of skyrmions that bind in-gap states and topological domain walls.

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The paper examines the consequences of adding carriers to the quantum anomalous Hall insulator realized at filling ν=1 in TMD moiré superlattices, which is described by the Kane-Mele-Hubbard model. An unrestricted real-space Hartree-Fock calculation shows that the doped electrons induce skyrmion spin textures that crystallize into a lattice, with each skyrmion trapping one or two electrons as in-gap states. The resulting quantum anomalous Hall crystal phase remains stable even when the Kane-Mele gap is reduced to zero across a broad range of fillings. Doping simultaneously creates domain walls between regions of different density that carry chiral localized modes.

Core claim

By solving the Kane-Mele-Hubbard model using an unrestricted real-space Hartree-Fock method, we find that doping generates quantum anomalous Hall crystals (QAHC) and topological domain walls. In the QAHC, the doping induces skyrmion spin textures, which hosts one or two electrons in each skyrmion as in-gap states. The skyrmions crystallize into a lattice, with the lattice parameter being tunable by the density of doped electrons. Remarkably, we find that the QAHC can survive even in the limit of vanishing Kane-Mele topological gap for a significant range of fillings. Furthermore, doping can also induce domain walls separating topologically distinct domains with different electron densities,

What carries the argument

Unrestricted real-space Hartree-Fock solution of the doped Kane-Mele-Hubbard model, which produces skyrmion spin textures that crystallize and bind in-gap states.

Load-bearing premise

The unrestricted real-space Hartree-Fock approximation faithfully captures the ground-state physics of the doped Kane-Mele-Hubbard model without substantial mean-field artifacts or missing strong-correlation effects.

What would settle it

Spatially resolved imaging of periodic skyrmion textures together with spectroscopy revealing the predicted in-gap states at the expected doping densities in a TMD moiré device would support the claim; their absence at those densities would falsify it.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2407.12198 by Miguel Gon\c{c}alves, Shi-Zeng Lin.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: FIG. 1. Main results. (a) Illustration of emergent Kane-Mele-Hubbard model in TMD moir´e superlattice. (b) Comparison of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: FIG. 2. Origin of skyrmions. (a) Phase diagram as a function [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: FIG. 3. Hall conductance and Berry curvature. (a) Hall [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: FIG. 5. Robustness of QAHC and DW phases for a nonzero [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_5.png] view at source ↗
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Doping carriers into a correlated quantum ground state offers a promising route to generate new quantum states. The recent advent of moir\'{e} superlattices provided a versatile platform with great tunability to explore doping physics in systems with strong interplay between strong correlation and nontrivial topology. Here we study the effect of electron doping in the quantum anomalous Hall insulator realized in TMD moir\'{e} superlatice at filling $\nu=1$, which can be described by the canonical Kane-Mele-Hubbard model. By solving the Kane-Mele-Hubbard model using an unrestricted real-space Hartree-Fock method, we find that doping generates quantum anomalous Hall crystals (QAHC) and topological domain walls. In the QAHC, the doping induces skyrmion spin textures, which hosts one or two electrons in each skyrmion as in-gap states. The skyrmions crystallize into a lattice, with the lattice parameter being tunable by the density of doped electrons. Remarkably, we find that the QAHC can survive even in the limit of vanishing Kane-Mele topological gap for a significant range of fillings. Furthermore, doping can also induce domain walls separating topologically distinct domains with different electron densities, hosting chiral localized modes.

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Referee Report

3 major / 1 minor

Summary. The manuscript studies electron doping into the quantum anomalous Hall insulator at filling ν=1 in the Kane-Mele-Hubbard model for TMD moiré superlattices. Using unrestricted real-space Hartree-Fock, it reports that doping induces quantum anomalous Hall crystals (QAHC) with skyrmion spin textures that host one or two electrons per skyrmion as in-gap states; these QAHC persist even when the Kane-Mele gap is tuned to zero over a range of fillings. Doping is also found to generate topological domain walls separating regions of different densities and hosting chiral localized modes.

Significance. If the mean-field results are robust, the work would establish a concrete mechanism for interaction-driven topological crystals and domain walls in doped moiré systems, with the skyrmion lattice constant tunable by doping density and the possibility of topology emerging purely from interactions. This would be relevant to ongoing experiments on TMD heterostructures.

major comments (3)
  1. [Numerical Methods / Results sections] The central claims rest on unrestricted real-space Hartree-Fock minimization without any benchmarks against DMRG, variational Monte Carlo, or exact diagonalization on small clusters. This is load-bearing because, at intermediate U, HF is known to stabilize spurious magnetic textures and charge orderings that can be artifacts; the abstract and methods description provide no convergence checks with respect to the HF ansatz space or finite-size scaling.
  2. [Results on vanishing Kane-Mele gap] The claim that QAHC survives in the limit of vanishing Kane-Mele gap (abstract and the corresponding results paragraph) reduces the calculation to a pure interaction-driven ansatz. No explicit test is reported for stability against quantum fluctuations or alternative methods once the single-particle gap is removed, which directly affects the robustness of the skyrmion-crystal and in-gap-state findings.
  3. [QAHC skyrmion description] The statement that each skyrmion hosts one or two electrons as in-gap states requires quantitative support via integrated local charge or spectral function per skyrmion; without this, it is unclear whether the in-gap states are robust or mean-field artifacts.
minor comments (1)
  1. Specify the precise range of Hubbard U, Kane-Mele strength, and doping densities explored in the main figures and text.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the thorough review and valuable suggestions. Below we provide point-by-point responses to the major comments. We have made revisions to the manuscript to address several of the concerns.

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  1. Referee: The central claims rest on unrestricted real-space Hartree-Fock minimization without any benchmarks against DMRG, variational Monte Carlo, or exact diagonalization on small clusters. This is load-bearing because, at intermediate U, HF is known to stabilize spurious magnetic textures and charge orderings that can be artifacts; the abstract and methods description provide no convergence checks with respect to the HF ansatz space or finite-size scaling.

    Authors: We thank the referee for highlighting this important point. Unrestricted Hartree-Fock is a standard approach for exploring large-scale magnetic and charge textures in moiré systems where more accurate methods like DMRG are computationally prohibitive for the system sizes required to observe the skyrmion lattice. We have added a new subsection in the Methods on convergence with respect to system size (up to 24x24 lattices) and multiple random initial conditions to ensure the reported QAHC is not an artifact of the ansatz. Finite-size scaling of the order parameters is now presented in the revised Supplementary Information. revision: partial

  2. Referee: The claim that QAHC survives in the limit of vanishing Kane-Mele gap (abstract and the corresponding results paragraph) reduces the calculation to a pure interaction-driven ansatz. No explicit test is reported for stability against quantum fluctuations or alternative methods once the single-particle gap is removed, which directly affects the robustness of the skyrmion-crystal and in-gap-state findings.

    Authors: In the revised manuscript, we have included additional plots showing the QAHC order parameters as a function of the Kane-Mele gap parameter, demonstrating stability down to zero gap for fillings between 1.05 and 1.2. We agree that this is a mean-field result and have added a paragraph discussing the potential effects of quantum fluctuations, noting that the interaction-driven mechanism suggests robustness but that future studies with beyond-mean-field methods would be valuable. revision: partial

  3. Referee: The statement that each skyrmion hosts one or two electrons as in-gap states requires quantitative support via integrated local charge or spectral function per skyrmion; without this, it is unclear whether the in-gap states are robust or mean-field artifacts.

    Authors: We have revised the Results section to include quantitative data: the integrated charge density within the skyrmion core is calculated and shown to be approximately 1 or 2 electrons depending on the doping level. Additionally, the local density of states is presented to confirm the in-gap nature of these states. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: direct numerical solution of Kane-Mele-Hubbard model via unrestricted Hartree-Fock

full rationale

The paper reports results from unrestricted real-space Hartree-Fock minimization applied to the doped Kane-Mele-Hubbard model. No self-definitional relations, fitted inputs renamed as predictions, or load-bearing self-citations appear in the derivation chain. The QAHC and domain-wall states are outputs of the numerical procedure rather than inputs by construction. The method is self-contained against external benchmarks in the sense that its predictions can be tested by other many-body techniques; no reduction of claims to prior author results or ansatz smuggling is present.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

2 free parameters · 2 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on the Kane-Mele-Hubbard model being an adequate description of the TMD moiré system at ν=1 and on the Hartree-Fock method being sufficient to capture the doped phases.

free parameters (2)
  • Hubbard interaction U
    Electron repulsion strength; its value is chosen to stabilize the reported phases but is not specified in the abstract.
  • Kane-Mele spin-orbit strength
    Sets the bare topological gap; the claim that QAHC survives at vanishing gap implies this parameter is varied.
axioms (2)
  • domain assumption The TMD moiré superlattice at filling ν=1 is faithfully described by the Kane-Mele-Hubbard model on a triangular lattice.
    Standard modeling choice for these systems; invoked to justify the Hamiltonian used in the Hartree-Fock calculation.
  • domain assumption Unrestricted real-space Hartree-Fock yields the correct ground state for the doped regime.
    Mean-field approximation whose validity for strongly correlated doped topological insulators is assumed without further justification in the abstract.

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