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 …

Emerging research landscape of altermagnetism

L Šmejkal, J Sinova, T Jungwirth - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
Magnetism is one of the largest, most fundamental, and technologically most relevant fields
of condensed-matter physics. Traditionally, two basic magnetic phases have been …

An anomalous Hall effect in altermagnetic ruthenium dioxide

Z Feng, X Zhou, L Šmejkal, L Wu, Z Zhu, H Guo… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The anomalous Hall effect is a time-reversal symmetry-breaking magneto-electronic
phenomenon originally discovered in ferromagnets. Recently, ruthenium dioxide (RuO2) …

The superconducting diode effect

M Nadeem, MS Fuhrer, X Wang - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
A superconducting diode enables supercurrent to flow in only one direction, providing new
functionalities for superconducting circuits. In recent years, there has been experimental …

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 …

A comprehensive review on Bi2Te3‐based thin films: Thermoelectrics and beyond

X Tang, Z Li, W Liu, Q Zhang… - Interdisciplinary Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Bi2Te3‐based materials are not only the most important and widely used room temperature
thermoelectric (TE) materials but are also canonical examples of topological insulators in …

Altermagnetic lifting of Kramers spin degeneracy

J Krempaský, L Šmejkal, SW D'souza, M Hajlaoui… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Lifted Kramers spin degeneracy (LKSD) has been among the central topics of condensed-
matter physics since the dawn of the band theory of solids,. It underpins established practical …

Chiral spintronics

SH Yang, R Naaman, Y Paltiel, SSP Parkin - Nature Reviews Physics, 2021 - nature.com
As spins move through a chiral electric field, the resulting spin current can acquire chirality
through a spin–orbit interaction. Such spin currents are highly useful in creating spin–orbit …

Layer Hall effect in a 2D topological axion antiferromagnet

A Gao, YF Liu, C Hu, JX Qiu, C Tzschaschel, B Ghosh… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Whereas ferromagnets have been known and used for millennia, antiferromagnets were
only discovered in the 1930s. At large scale, because of the absence of global …