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 spintronics and magnetoelectronics

QL He, TL Hughes, NP Armitage, Y Tokura, KL Wang - Nature materials, 2022 - nature.com
Topological electronic materials, such as topological insulators, are distinct from trivial
materials in the topology of their electronic band structures that lead to robust …

Magnetic topological insulators

Y Tokura, K Yasuda, A Tsukazaki - Nature Reviews Physics, 2019 - nature.com
The importance of global band topology is unequivocally recognized in condensed matter
physics, and new states of matter, such as topological insulators, have been discovered …

Axion electrodynamics in topological materials

A Sekine, K Nomura - Journal of Applied Physics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
One of the intriguing properties characteristic to three-dimensional topological materials is
the topological magnetoelectric phenomena arising from a topological term called the θ …

Realization of the axion insulator state in quantum anomalous Hall sandwich heterostructures

D Xiao, J Jiang, JH Shin, W Wang, F Wang, YF Zhao… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
The “magnetoelectric effect” arises from the coupling between magnetic and electric
properties in materials. The Z 2 invariant of topological insulators (TIs) leads to a quantized …

Axion physics in condensed-matter systems

DM Nenno, CAC Garcia, J Gooth, C Felser… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Axions are hypothetical particles that were proposed to solve the strong charge–parity
problem in high-energy physics. Although they have long been known in quantum field …

Tutorial on electromagnetic nonreciprocity and its origins

VS Asadchy, MS Mirmoosa, A Díaz-Rubio… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This tutorial provides an intuitive and concrete description of the phenomena of
electromagnetic nonreciprocity that will be useful for readers with engineering or physics …

Transport, magnetic and optical properties of Weyl materials

N Nagaosa, T Morimoto, Y Tokura - Nature Reviews Materials, 2020 - nature.com
Weyl fermions were originally proposed as massless Dirac fermions in relativistic quantum
field theory. In solids, Weyl fermions often appear when either time-reversal symmetry or …

Magnetic topological insulator heterostructures: A review

J Liu, T Hesjedal - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Topological insulators (TIs) provide intriguing prospects for the future of spintronics due to
their large spin–orbit coupling and dissipationless, counter‐propagating conduction …

Topological states of condensed matter

J Wang, SC Zhang - Nature materials, 2017 - nature.com
Topological states of quantum matter have been investigated intensively in recent years in
materials science and condensed matter physics. The field developed explosively largely …