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Antiferromagnetism, characterized by magnetic moments aligned in alternating directions with a vanished ensemble average, has garnered renewed interest for its potential applications in spintronics and axion dynamics. The synergy between…

The class of topological semimetals comprises a large pool of compounds. Together they provide a wide platform to realize exotic quasiparticles for example Dirac, nodal line Dirac and Weyl fermions. In this letter, we report the Berry…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-05 Nitesh Kumar , Kaustuv Manna , Yanpeng Qi , Shu-Chun Wu , Lei Wang , Binghai Yan , Claudia Felser , Chandra Shekhar

In magnetic topological insulators, spontaneous time-reversal symmetry breaking by intrinsic magnetic order can gap the topological surface spectrum, resulting in exotic properties like axion electrodynamics, the quantum anomalous Hall…

Topological insulators are new states of quantum matter which can not be adiabatically connected to conventional insulators and semiconductors. They are characterized by a full insulating gap in the bulk and gapless edge or surface states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

An electron moving in a magnetically ordered background feels an effective magnetic field that can be both stronger and more rapidly varying than typical externally applied fields. One consequence is that insulating magnetic materials in…

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Inducing magnetism into topological insulators is intriguing for utilizing exotic phenomena such as the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) for technological applications. While most studies have focused on doping magnetic impurities to…

Magnetic topological insulators (MTI) constitute a novel class of materials where the topologically protected band structure coexists with long-range ferromagnetic order, which can lead to the breaking of time-reversal symmetry (TRS),…

Constructing heterostructures of a topological insulator (TI) with an undoped magnetic insulator (MI) is a clean and versatile approach to break the time-reversible symmetry in the TI surface states. Despite a lot of efforts, the strength…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Nan Liu , Xuefan Niu , Yuxin Liu , Qinghua Zhang , Lin Gu , Jing Teng , Yongqing Li

The tunability of topological surface states and controllable opening of the Dirac gap are of great importance to the application of topological materials. In topological crystalline insulators (TCIs), crystal symmetry and topology of…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-17 Feng Wei , Chieh-Wen Liu , Da Li , Chun-Yang Wang , Hong-Rui Zhang , Ji-rong Sun , Xuan P. A. Gao , Song Ma , Zhidong Zhang

The field of topological electronic materials has seen rapid growth in recent years, in particular with the increasing number of weakly interacting systems predicted and observed to host topologically non-trivial bands. Given the broad…

Over the last decade, the possibility of realizing topological superconductivity (TSC) has generated much excitement, mainly due to the potential use of its excitations (Majorana zero modes) in a fault-tolerant topological quantum computer…

Recently, topological quantum states of non-Hermitian systems, exhibiting rich new exotic states, have attracted great attention in condensed-matter physics. As for the demonstration, most of non-Hermitian topological phenomena previously…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-15 Huaiqiang Wang , Jiawei Ruan , Haijun Zhang

To realize novel topological phases and to pursue potential applications in low-energy consumption spintronics, the study of magnetic topological materials is of great interest. Starting from the theory of nonmagnetic topological quantum…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-03 Jiacheng Gao , Zhaopeng Guo , Hongming Weng , Zhijun Wang

Topological insulators are new class of materials which are characterized by a bulk band gap like ordinary band insulator but have protected conducting states on their edge or surface. These states emerge out due to the combination of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-18 Arijit Saha , Arun M. Jayannavar

The combination of magnetism and topology in magnetic topological insulators (MTIs) has led to unprecedented advancements of time reversal symmetry-breaking topological quantum physics in the past decade. Compared with the uniform films,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-26 Qi Yao , Yuchen Ji , Peng Chen , Qing-Lin He , Xufeng Kou

Topological insulator is composed of an insulating bulk state and time reversal symmetry protected two-dimensional surface states. One of the characteristics of the surface states is the locking between electron momentum and spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-21 B. Xia , P. Ren , Azat Sulaev , Z. P. Li , P. Liu , Z. L. Dong , L. Wang

Exploration of novel electromagnetic phenomena is a subject of great interest in topological quantum materials. One of the unprecedented effects to be experimentally verified is topological magnetoelectric (TME) effect originating from an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-10 M. Mogi , M. Kawamura , A. Tsukazaki , R. Yoshimi , K. S. Takahashi , M. Kawasaki , Y. Tokura

We investigate magnetotransport in exfoliated nanostructures of the candidate magnetic 3D topological insulator $\mathrm{EuSn_{2}As_{2}}$. Similar to macroscopic single crystals, the negative magnetoresistance observed below the N\'eel…

Samarium hexaboride (SmB$_6$), a representative Kondo insulator, has been characterized recently as a likely topological insulator. It is also a material with strong electron correlations, evident by the temperature dependence of its…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-10 Predrag Nikolić

Topological quantum materials, including topological insulators and superconductors, Dirac semimetals and Weyl semimetals, have attracted much attention recently for their unique electronic structure, spin texture and physical properties.…