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The concept of electronic topology and the associated topological protection brings excellent opportunities for developing next-generation devices. Ideally, magnetic topological materials (MTM) should have their Dirac/Weyl points and/or…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-03 Sugata Chowdhury , Kevin F. Garrity , Francesca Tavazza

Using density functional theory and Monte Carlo calculations, we study the thickness dependence of the magnetic and electronic properties of a van der Waals interlayer antiferromagnet in the two-dimensional limit. Considering…

The recent discovered intrinsic magnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4 have been met with unusual success in hosting emergent phenomena such as the quantum anomalous Hall effect and the axion insulator states. However, the surface-bulk…

Surface magnetism and its correlation with the electronic structure are critical to understand the gapless topological surface state in the intrinsic magnetic topological insulator MnBi$_2$Te$_4$. Here, using static and time resolved…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-16 D. Nevola , H. X. Li , J. -Q. Yan , R. G. Moore , H. -N. Lee , H. Miao , P. D. Johnson

Magnetic topological insulators (MTIs) offer a combination of topologically nontrivial characteristics and magnetic order and show promise in terms of potentially interesting physical phenomena such as the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH)…

The antiferromagnetic (AF) compound MnBi$_{2}$Te$_{4}$ is suggested to be the first realization of an antiferromagnetic (AF) topological insulator. Here we report on inelastic neutron scattering studies of the magnetic interactions in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-29 J. -Q. Yan , D. Pajerowski , Liqin Ke , A. M. Nedić , Y. Sizyuk , Elijah Gordon , P. P. Orth , D. Vaknin , R. J. McQueeney

The magnetic van der Waals crystals MnBi2Te4/(Bi2Te3)n have drawn significant attention due to their rich topological properties and the tunability by external magnetic field. Although the MnBi2Te4/(Bi2Te3)n family have been intensively…

The interplay between band topology and magnetic order plays a key role in quantum states of matter. MnBi2Te4, a van der Waals magnet, has recently emerged as an exciting platform for exploring Chern insulator physics. Its layered…

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…

Magnetic topological insulators such as MnBi2Te4 and MnSb2Te4 are promising hosts of novel physical phenomena such as quantum anomalous Hall effect and intrinsic axion insulator state, both potentially important for the implementation in…

Topological surface states with intrinsic magnetic ordering in the MnBi$_2$Te$_4$(Bi$_2$Te$_3$)$_n$ compounds have been predicted to host rich topological phenomena including quantized anomalous Hall effect and axion insulator state. Here…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-28 Zuowei Liang , Mengzhu Shi , Qiang Zhang , Simin Nie , J. -J. Ying , J. -F. He , Tao Wu , Zhijun Wang , Zhenyu Wang , X. -H. Chen

Heterostructures having both magnetism and topology are promising materials for the realization of exotic topological quantum states while challenging in synthesis and engineering. Here, we report natural magnetic van der Waals…

We study the effect of stacking faults on the topological properties of the magnetic topological insulator MnBi$_{2}$Te$_{4}$ (MBT) using density functional theory calculations and the Hubbard $U$ being tuned with many-body diffusion Monte…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-17 Jeonghwan Ahn , Seoung-Hun Kang , Mina Yoon , Panchapakesan Ganesh , Jaron T. Krogel

The antiferromagnetic topological insulator has attracted lots of attention recently, as its intrinsic magnetism and topological property makes it a potential material to realize the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) at relative high…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-04 Fei Jiao , Jingfeng Wang , Xianyu Wang , Meixia Chang , Lingbo Cai , Shu Zhu , Di Zhang , Qing Lu , Cao Wang , Shugang Tan , Yunlong Li , Jiayuan Hu , Qiang Jing , Bo Liu , Dong Qian

MnBi2Te4 is a van der Waals topological insulator with intrinsic intralayer ferromagnetic exchange and A-type antiferromagnetic interlayer coupling. Theoretically, it belongs to a class of structurally centrosymmetric crystals whose layered…

Magnetism in topological materials creates phases exhibiting quantized transport phenomena with applications in spintronics and quantum information. The emergence of such phases relies on strong interaction between localized spins and…

Based on the first-principles calculations and theoretical analysis, we investigate the electronic structures, topological phase transition (TPT) and topological properties of layered magnetic compound MnSb2Te4. It has the similar crystal…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-12 Liqin Zhou , Zhiyun Tan , Dayu Yan , Zhong Fang , Youguo Shi , Hongming Weng

Despite the rapid progress in understanding the first intrinsic magnetic topological insulator MnBi$_2$Te$_4$, its electronic structure remains a topic under debates. Here we perform a thorough spectroscopic investigation into the…

Introducing magnetism into topological insulators breaks time-reversal symmetry, and the magnetic exchange interaction can open a gap in the otherwise gapless topological surface states. This allows various novel topological quantum states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-28 Pinyuan Wang , Jun Ge , Jiaheng Li , Yanzhao Liu , Yong Xu , Jian Wang

Intrinsic ferromagnetism is a crucial ingredient to realize quantum anomalous Hall effect in quasi two dimensional materials, thus the search of intrinsic ferromagnetic topological materials is one of the most concerned issues in the field…