Progress on the antiferromagnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4

S Li, T Liu, C Liu, Y Wang, HZ Lu… - National Science …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Topological materials, which feature robust surface and/or edge states, have now been a
research focus in condensed matter physics. They represent a new class of materials …

On the topological surface states of the intrinsic magnetic topological insulator Mn-Bi-Te family

Y Wang, XM Ma, Z Hao, Y Cai, H Rong… - National Science …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We review recent progress in the electronic structure study of intrinsic magnetic topological
insulators (MnBi2Te4)·(Bi2Te3) n () family. Specifically, we focus on the ubiquitously (nearly) …

Distinct Magnetic Gaps between Antiferromagnetic and Ferromagnetic Orders Driven by Surface Defects in the Topological Magnet

H Tan, B Yan - Physical review letters, 2023 - APS
Many experiments observed a metallic behavior at zero magnetic fields (antiferromagnetic
phase, AFM) in MnBi 2 Te 4 thin film transport, which coincides with gapless surface states …

Routes to realize the axion-insulator phase in MnBi2Te4 (Bi2Te3) n family

Y Zhao, Q Liu - Applied Physics Letters, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Axion, first postulated as a hypothetical particle in high-energy physics, is now extended to
describe a novel topological magnetoelectric effect derived from the Chern–Simons theory …

Layer Hall effect induced by hidden Berry curvature in antiferromagnetic insulators

R Chen, HP Sun, M Gu, CB Hua, Q Liu… - National Science …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The layer Hall effect describes electrons spontaneously deflected to opposite sides at
different layers, which has been experimentally reported in the MnBi2Te4 thinfilms under …

Approaching a Minimal Topological Electronic Structure in Antiferromagnetic Topological Insulator MnBi2Te4 via Surface Modification

A Liang, C Chen, H Zheng, W Xia, K Huang, L Wei… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
The topological electronic structure plays a central role in the nontrivial physical properties
in topological quantum materials. A minimal,“hydrogen-atom-like” topological electronic …

Large Exchange Coupling Between Localized Spins and Topological Bands in MnBi2Te4

H Padmanabhan, VA Stoica, PK Kim… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetism in topological materials creates phases exhibiting quantized transport
phenomena with potential technological applications. The emergence of such phases relies …

Routes for the topological surface state energy gap modulation in antiferromagnetic MnBi2Te4

AM Shikin, TP Makarova, AV Eryzhenkov… - Physica B: Condensed …, 2023 - Elsevier
We have analyzed different factors responsible for changes in the Dirac gap in MnBi 2 Te 4
and the routes that determine the possibilities of the purposeful gap modulation. It was …

Electrically tunable high-Chern-number quasiflat bands in twisted antiferromagnetic topological insulators

H Wang, Y Fan, H Zhang - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Isolated flat bands with significantly quenched kinetic energy of electrons could give rise to
exotic strongly correlated states from electron-electron interactions. More intriguingly, the …

Light-induced half-quantized Hall effect and axion insulator

F Qin, CH Lee, R Chen - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Motivated by the recent experimental realization of the half-quantized Hall effect phase in a
three-dimensional (3D) semimagnetic topological insulator [M. Mogi, Nat. Phys. 18, 390 …