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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 109, Issue 16, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.166405
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- Interphase Program of the Dutch Science Foundation NWO/FOM
- Emmy-Noether program of the DFG
- DST, India
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We establish that the interplay of itinerant fermions with localized magnetic moments on a checkerboard lattice leads to magnetic flux phases. For weak itineracy the flux phase is coplanar and the electronic dispersion takes the shape of graphenelike Dirac fermions. Stronger itineracy drives the formation of a noncoplanar, chiral flux phase, in which the Dirac fermions acquire a topological mass that is proportional to a ferromagnetic spin polarization. Consequently the system self-organizes into a ferromagnetic quantum anomalous Hall state in which the direction of its dissipationless edge currents can be switched by an applied magnetic field.
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