Hui Pan, Zhenshan Li, Cheng-Cheng Liu, Guobao Zhu, Zhenhua Qiao, Yugui Yao
We demonstrate a new quantum state of matter---valley-polarized quantum anomalous Hall effect in monolayer silicene. In the presence of extrinsic Rashba spin-orbit coupling and exchange field, monolayer silicene can host a quantum anomalous-Hall state with Chern number C=2. We find that through tuning Rashba spin-orbit coupling, a topological phase transition gives rise to a valley polarized quantum anomalous Hall state, i.e. a quantum state which exhibits electronic properties of both quantum valley-Hall effect (valley Chern number C_V=3) and quantum anomalous Hall effect with C=-1.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.8076
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