Progress and prospects in magnetic topological materials

BA Bernevig, C Felser, H Beidenkopf - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Magnetic topological materials represent a class of compounds with properties that are
strongly influenced by the topology of their electronic wavefunctions coupled with the …

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 …

Emergent ferromagnetism near three-quarters filling in twisted bilayer graphene

AL Sharpe, EJ Fox, AW Barnard, J Finney, K Watanabe… - Science, 2019 - science.org
When two sheets of graphene are stacked at a small twist angle, the resulting flat
superlattice minibands are expected to strongly enhance electron-electron interactions …

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 …

High-precision realization of robust quantum anomalous Hall state in a hard ferromagnetic topological insulator

CZ Chang, W Zhao, DY Kim, H Zhang, BA Assaf… - Nature materials, 2015 - nature.com
The discovery of the quantum Hall (QH) effect led to the realization of a topological
electronic state with dissipationless currents circulating in one direction along the edge of a …

The quantum anomalous Hall effect: theory and experiment

CX Liu, SC Zhang, XL Qi - Annual Review of Condensed Matter …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
The quantum anomalous Hall effect is defined as a quantized Hall effect realized in a system
without an external magnetic field. The quantum anomalous Hall effect is a novel …

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 …

Magnetization switching through giant spin–orbit torque in a magnetically doped topological insulator heterostructure

Y Fan, P Upadhyaya, X Kou, M Lang, S Takei… - Nature materials, 2014 - nature.com
Recent demonstrations of magnetization switching induced by in-plane current in heavy
metal/ferromagnetic heterostructures (HMFHs) have drawn great attention to spin torques …

Experimental observation of the quantum anomalous Hall effect in a magnetic topological insulator

CZ Chang, J Zhang, X Feng, J Shen, Z Zhang, M Guo… - Science, 2013 - science.org
The quantized version of the anomalous Hall effect has been predicted to occur in magnetic
topological insulators, but the experimental realization has been challenging. Here, we …

Trajectory of the anomalous Hall effect towards the quantized state in a ferromagnetic topological insulator

JG Checkelsky, R Yoshimi, A Tsukazaki… - Nature Physics, 2014 - nature.com
Topological insulators are bulk electronic insulators with symmetry-protected gapless modes
on their surfaces,,,,. Breaking time-reversal symmetry in these systems via ferromagnetism …