- Accepted Paper
Chiral magnetism and quantum anomalous Hall effect in a low-energy Kondo model on the triangular lattice
Phys. Rev. B - Accepted 29 October, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/t9yg-8xcy
Phys. Rev. B - Accepted 29 October, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/t9yg-8xcy
We study an effective low-energy Kondo model on the triangular lattice in which itinerant electrons occupy a valence pocket at and three conduction pockets at the points of the Brillouin zone. This construction has a Fermi-surface nesting structure that favors triple- magnetic order while only assuming the low-energy band-structure. Treating the local moments as classical spins on a four-sublattice magnetic unit cell, we find extended regions of non-coplanar order, including tetrahedral and related canted tetrahedral states, in addition to ferromagnetic and coplanar phases. The chiral phases remain stable over a broad range of inter-pocket Kondo couplings and persist in the presence of an external magnetic field. For certain chiral orders, the electronic bands can become gapped and host a quantum anomalous Hall state with . These results show that chiral magnetism and a quantized anomalous Hall effect on the triangular lattice do not rely on a specific tight-binding band structure, but can arise more generally from low-energy nested pockets at and .
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