Colloquium: Quantum anomalous Hall effect

CZ Chang, CX Liu, AH MacDonald - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2023 - APS
The quantum Hall (QH) effect, quantized Hall resistance combined with zero longitudinal
resistance, is the characteristic experimental fingerprint of Chern insulators—topologically …

Topological materials discovery from crystal symmetry

BJ Wieder, B Bradlyn, J Cano, Z Wang… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Topological materials discovery has evolved at a rapid pace over the past 15 years following
the identification of the first nonmagnetic topological insulators (TIs), topological crystalline …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Quantum anomalous layer Hall effect in the topological magnet

WB Dai, H Li, DH Xu, CZ Chen, XC Xie - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Recently, a type of Hall effect due to an unusual layer-locked Berry curvature called the layer
Hall effect (LHE) has been reported in the even-layered two-dimensional antiferromagnetic …

Direct visualization of edge state in even-layer MnBi2Te4 at zero magnetic field

W Lin, Y Feng, Y Wang, J Zhu, Z Lian, H Zhang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
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 …

Dissipationless layertronics in axion insulator MnBi2Te4

S Li, M Gong, S Cheng, H Jiang… - National Science …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Surface electrons in axion insulators are endowed with a topological layer degree of
freedom followed by exotic transport phenomena, eg, the layer Hall effect. Here, we propose …

Anderson critical metal phase in trivial states protected by average magnetic crystalline symmetry

FJ Wang, ZY Xiao, R Queiroz, BA Bernevig… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Transitions between distinct obstructed atomic insulators (OAIs) protected by crystalline
symmetries, where electrons form molecular orbitals centering away from the atom positions …

Electrically Controlled Anomalous Hall Effect and Orbital Magnetization in Topological Magnet

R Mei, YF Zhao, C Wang, Y Ren, D Xiao, CZ Chang… - Physical review …, 2024 - APS
We propose an intrinsic mechanism to understand the even-odd effect, namely, opposite
signs of anomalous Hall resistance and different shapes of hysteresis loops for even and …