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Antiferromagnetic topological insulator (AFTI) is a topological matter that breaks time-reversal symmetry. Since its proposal, explorations of AFTI in strong-correlated systems are still lacking. In this paper, we show for the first time…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-27 Huan Li , Yin Zhong , Yu Liu , Hong-Gang Luo , Hai-Feng Song

Antiferromagnetic (AFM) semiconductor MnS$_2$ possesses both high-spin and low-spin magnetic phases that can be reversibly switched by applying pressure. With increasing pressure, the high-spin state undergoes pressure-induced metalization…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-19 Vsevolod Ivanov , Xiangang Wan , Sergey Y. Savrasov

We consider antiferromagnets breaking both time-reversal (Theta) and a primitive lattice translational symmetry (T) of a crystal but preserving the combination S = Theta T. The S symmetry leads to a Z_2 topological classification of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-22 Roger S. K. Mong , Andrew M. Essin , Joel E. Moore

We revisit the question of whether a two-dimensional topological insulator may arise in a commensurate N\'eel antiferromagnet, where staggered magnetization breaks both the elementary translation and time reversal, but retains their product…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-04-07 Frédéric Bègue , Pierre Pujol , Revaz Ramazashvili

Antiferromagnetic (AF) topological materials offer a fertile ground to explore a variety of quantum phenomena such as axion magnetoelectric dynamics and chiral Majorana fermions. To realize such intriguing states, it is essential to…

The recent discovery of antiferromagnetic (AFM) topological insulator (TI) MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ has triggered great research efforts on exploring novel magnetic topological physics. Based on first-principles calculations, we find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Jiaheng Li , Chong Wang , Zetao Zhang , Bing-Lin Gu , Wenhui Duan , Yong Xu

In this work, we studied time-reversal-breaking topological phases as a result of the interplay between antiferromagnetism and inverted band structures in thin films of antiferromagnetic double perovskite transition-metal Sr$_2$FeOsO$_6$.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-01-02 Xiao-Yu Dong , Sudipta Kanungo , Binghai Yan , Chao-Xing Liu

The classification and construction of symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases have been intensively studied in interacting systems recently. To our surprise, in interacting fermion systems, there exists a new class of the so-called…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-28 Qing-Rui Wang , Yang Qi , Zheng-Cheng Gu

We study the topological properties of an antiferromagnetic phase with reflection symmetry in three-dimensional heavy-fermion systems. We here propose a reflection-symmetric topological state in the three-dimensional antiferromagnetic phase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-22 Kazuhiro Kimura , Tsuneya Yoshida , Norio Kawakami

A topological insulator is a state of matter which does not break any symmetry and is characterized by topological invariants, the integer expectation values of non-local operators. Antiferromagnetism on the other hand is a broken symmetry…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-15 R. A. Müller , N. R. Lee-Hone , L. Lapointe , D. H. Ryan , T. Pereg-Barnea , A. D. Bianchi , Y. Mozharivskyj , R. Flacau

We study the topological features of non-interacting insulators subject to an antiferromangetic (AFM) Zeeman field, or AFM insulators, the period of which is commensurate with the lattice period. These insulators can be classified by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-21 Chen Fang , Matthew J. Gilbert , B. Andrei Bernevig

Altermagnets (AMs) are an emergent class of magnetic materials that combine properties of ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, exhibiting spin-polarized Fermi surfaces and zero net magnetic moment due to combined time-reversal and crystal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Zesen Fu , Mengli Hu , Aolin Li , Haiming Duan , Junwei Liu , Fangping Ouyang

A two-dimensional topological insulator may arise in a centrosymmetric commensurate N\'{e}el antiferromagnet (AF), where staggered magnetization breaks both the elementary translation and time reversal, but retains their product as a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-05 Frédéric Bègue , Pierre Pujol , Revaz Ramazashvili

A major challenge in condensed matter physics is integrating topological phenomena with correlated electron physics to leverage both types of states for next-generation quantum devices. Metal-insulator transitions (MITs) are central to…

Antiferromagnetic topological insulators harbor topological in-gap surface states protected by an anti-unitary $S$ symmetry, which is broken by the inevitable presence of domain walls. Whether an antiferromagnetic topological insulator with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-31 Yihao Lin , Ji Feng

Topological insulators, with metallic boundary states protected against time-reversal-invariant perturbations, are a promising avenue for realizing exotic quantum states of matter including various excitations of collective modes predicted…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-04 Yasuyuki Nakajima , Paul Syers , Xiangfeng Wang , Renxiong Wang , Johnpierre Paglione

Here we investigate antiferromagnetic Eu$_{5}$In$_{2}$Sb$_{6}$, a nonsymmorphic Zintl phase. Our electrical transport data show that Eu$_{5}$In$_{2}$Sb$_{6}$ is remarkably insulating and exhibits an exceptionally large negative…

The antiferromagnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4 (MBT) exhibits an ideal platform to study exotic topological phenomena and magnetic properties. The transport signatures of magnetic phase transitions in the MBT family materials have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-13 Shuwan Liu , Su Kong Chong , Dongwook Kim , Amit Vashist , Rohit Kumar , Seng Huat Lee , Kang L. Wang , Zhiqiang Mao , Feng Liu , Vikram V. Deshpande

Altermagnetism is a new magnetic phase with k-dependent spin polarization and may exist in an insulating state with a high N\'eel temperature. This provides a new opportunity to obtain both spin and electric polarization in one material.…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-22 Peng-Jie Guo , Yuhao Gu , Ze-Feng Gao , Zhong-Yi Lu

The heavy fermion material CeB6 shows hidden magnetic ordered phases. Besides well-known Ferromagnetic(FM) and Antiferromagnetic(AFM) phases, CeB6 is speculated to form a unique antiferroquadrupolar (AFQ) phase that is orbital in nature.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-14 C. K. Barman , Prashant Singh , D. D. Johnson , Aftab Alam
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