Axion field induced topological magneto-electric response has attracted lots of attentions since it was first proposed by Qi et al. in 2008. Here we find a new type of anti-commutative magneto-electric response \beta^{\xi}(\omega), which can induce a dynamical magneto-electric current driven by a time-varying magnetic field. Unlike the Chern-Simons Axion term, this magneto-electric response term is gauge-independent and non-quantized, and manifests in the systems breaking the symmetries of the time-reversal, inversion and mirror. In particular, we propose the antiferromagnetic material Mn_{2}Bi_{2}Te_{5} as a material candidate to observe dynamical magneto-electric current, in which a large magneto-electric response term \beta^{\xi}(\omega) originates from band inversion.
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@article{arxiv.2108.03928,
title = {Anti-commutative dynamical magneto-electric response in certain solid state materials},
author = {Maoyuan Wang and Haiwen Liu and X. C. Xie},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.03928},
year = {2022}
}