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 …

Anomalous hall antiferromagnets

L Šmejkal, AH MacDonald, J Sinova… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
The Hall effect, in which a current flows perpendicular to an electrical bias, has been
prominent in the history of condensed matter physics. Appearing variously in classical …

Robust axion insulator and Chern insulator phases in a two-dimensional antiferromagnetic topological insulator

C Liu, Y Wang, H Li, Y Wu, Y Li, J Li, K He, Y Xu… - Nature materials, 2020 - nature.com
The intricate interplay between non-trivial topology and magnetism in two-dimensional
materials can lead to the emergence of interesting phenomena such as the quantum …

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 …

Axionic charge-density wave in the Weyl semimetal (TaSe4)2I

J Gooth, B Bradlyn, S Honnali, C Schindler, N Kumar… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
An axion insulator is a correlated topological phase, which is predicted to arise from the
formation of a charge-density wave in a Weyl semimetal,—that is, a material in which …

Absence of evidence for chiral Majorana modes in quantum anomalous Hall-superconductor devices

M Kayyalha, D Xiao, R Zhang, J Shin, J Jiang, F Wang… - Science, 2020 - science.org
A quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulator coupled to an s-wave superconductor is
predicted to harbor chiral Majorana modes. A recent experiment interprets the half …

Microwave impedance microscopy and its application to quantum materials

ME Barber, EY Ma, ZX Shen - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Materials in which quantum mechanical effects lead to novel properties on the macroscopic
scale are of interest both fundamentally and for applications. For such quantum materials …

Proposal to detect dark matter using axionic topological antiferromagnets

DJE Marsh, KC Fong, EW Lentz, L Šmejkal, MN Ali - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
Antiferromagnetically doped topological insulators (ATI) are among the candidates to host
dynamical axion fields and axion polaritons, weakly interacting quasiparticles that are …

Topological aspects of antiferromagnets

V Bonbien, F Zhuo, A Salimath, O Ly… - Journal of Physics D …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The long fascination that antiferromagnetic materials has exerted on the scientific community
over about a century has been entirely renewed recently with the discovery of several …