In-Plane Magnetic-Field-Induced Quantum Anomalous Hall Plateau Transition

Jinlong Zhang; Zhaochen Liu; Jing Wang

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.100.165117

In-Plane Magnetic-Field-Induced Quantum Anomalous Hall Plateau Transition

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2019-10-15 v2 Materials Science

Authors: Jinlong Zhang , Zhaochen Liu , Jing Wang

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Abstract

We study the critical properties of the in-plane magnetic field-induced quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) plateau transition in axion insulators. Take even septuple layer film MnBi $_2$ Te $_4$ as a concrete example, we find the mirror symmetry breaking from in-plane field could induce axion insulator to QAH insulator transition, which belongs to generic integer quantum Hall plateau transition. The chiral Majorana fermion does not necessarily emerge at the QAH plateau transition in MnBi $_2$ Te $_4$ due to strong exchange field, but may be quite feasible in its descendent materials MnBi $_4$ Te $_7$ and MnBi $_6$ Te $_{10}$ .

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quantum anomalous hall effect in-plane magnetic field axion insulator plateau transition mnbi2te4 chiral majorana fermion integer quantum hall transition

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@article{arxiv.1905.05919,
  title  = {In-Plane Magnetic-Field-Induced Quantum Anomalous Hall Plateau Transition},
  author = {Jinlong Zhang and Zhaochen Liu and Jing Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.05919},
  year   = {2019}
}

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