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The van der Waals antiferromagnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4 represents a promising platform for exploring the layer-dependent magnetism and topological states of matter. Recently observed discrepancies between magnetic and transport…

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Axions, initially proposed to solve the strong CP problem, have recently gained attention in condensed matter physics, particularly in topological insulators. However, detecting axion dynamics has proven challenging, with no experimental…

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The MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ material family has emerged as a key platform for exploring magnetic topological phases, most notably exemplified by the experimental realization of the axion insulator state. While spin dynamics are known to…

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Topological insulators (TIs) are new insulating materials with exotic surface states, where the motion of charge carriers is described by the Dirac equations and their spins are locked in a perpendicular direction to their momentum. Recent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-01 Fei-Xiang Xiang , Xiao-Lin Wang , Shi-Xue Dou

The topological surface states of magnetic topological systems, such as Weyl semimetals and axion insulators, are associated with unconventional transport properties such as nonzero or half-quantized surface anomalous Hall effect. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 Mingqiang Gu , Jiayu Li , Hongyi Sun , Yufei Zhao , Chang Liu , Jianpeng Liu , Haizhou Lu , Qihang Liu

Surface electrons in axion insulators are endowed with a topological layer degree of freedom followed by exotic transport phenomena, e.g., the layer Hall effect [Gao et al., Nature 595, 521 (2021)]. Here, we propose that such a layer degree…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-06 Shuai Li , Ming Gong , Shuguang Cheng , Hua Jiang , X. C. Xie

Topological insulators are insulating in the bulk but possess spin-momentum locked metallic surface states protected by time-reversal symmetry. The existence of these surface states has been confirmed by angle-resolved photoemission…

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We investigate the quantum transport properties of surface electrons on a topological insulator Bi2Te3 nanowire in a magnetotransport study. Although the nanowires are synthesized by using a relatively coarse method of electrochemical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-03 Hong-Seok Kim , Ho Sun Shin , Joon Sung Lee , Chi Won Ahn , Jae Yong Song , Yong-Joo Doh

The intrinsic antiferromagnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4 provides an ideal platform for exploring exotic topological quantum phenomena. Recently, the Chern insulator and axion insulator phases have been realized in few-layer MnBi2Te4…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-03 Chang Liu , Yongchao Wang , Ming Yang , Jiahao Mao , Hao Li , Yaoxin Li , Jiaheng Li , Haipeng Zhu , Junfeng Wang , Liang Li , Yang Wu , Yong Xu , Jinsong Zhang , Yayu Wang

Topological insulators are guaranteed to support metallic surface states on an insulating bulk, and one should thus expect that the electronic transport in these materials is dominated by the surfaces states. Alas, due to the high remaining…

As the first intrinsic antiferromagnetic topological insulator, MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ has provided a platform to investigate the interplay of band topology and magnetism as well as the emergent phenomena arising from such an interplay. Here we…

Recent experiments on amorphous materials have established the existence of surface states similar to those of crystalline three-dimensional topological insulators (TIs). Amorphous topological insulators are also independently of interest…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-18 Siddhant Mal , Elizabeth J. Dresselhaus , Joel E. Moore

Intrinsic magnetic topological insulators from MnBi2Te4 family promise realization of axion insulator, a theoretically predicted state of matter capable to mutually convert electric and magnetic signals, and whose properties are reminiscent…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-17 Igor Altfeder , Robert C. Walko , Seng Huat Lee , Zhiqiang Mao

Topological insulators are known to their metallic surface states, a result of strong-spin-orbital coupling, that show unique surface transport phenomenon. But these surface transports are buried in presence of metallic bulk conduction. We…

A striking feature of time reversal symmetry (TRS) protected topological insulators (TIs) is that they are characterized by a half integer quantum Hall effect on the boundary when the surface states are gapped by time reversal breaking…

Magnetic topological insulators can host chiral 1D edge channels at zero magnetic field, when a magnetic gap opens at the Dirac point in the band structure of 2D topological surface states, leading to the quantum anomalous Hall effect in…

The recently discovered antiferromagnetic topological insulator MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ hosts a variety of exotic topological quantum phases such as the axion insulator and Chern insulator states. Here we report systematic gate voltage dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-03 Yaoxin Li , Chang Liu , Yongchao Wang , Hao Li , Yang Wu , Jinsong Zhang , Yayu Wang

The topological quantum phases in antiferromagnetic topological insulator MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ hold promise for next-generation spintronics, but their experimental realization has been constrained by challenges in preparing high-quality devices.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-21 Zichen Lian , Yongqian Wang , Yongchao Wang , Liangcai Xu , Jinsong Zhang , Chang Liu , Yayu Wang

Being the first intrinsic antiferromagnetic(AFM) topological insulator(TI), MnBi2Te4 is argued to be a topological axion state in its even-layer form due to the antiparallel magnetization between the top and bottom layers. Here we combine…