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 …

Rashba-like physics in condensed matter

G Bihlmayer, P Noël, DV Vyalikh, EV Chulkov… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Spin–orbit coupling induces a unique form of Zeeman interaction in momentum space in
materials that lack inversion symmetry: the electron's spin is locked on an effective magnetic …

Two-dimensional magnetic crystals and emergent heterostructure devices

C Gong, X Zhang - Science, 2019 - science.org
BACKGROUND The electron can be considered as a tiny magnet, with two opposite poles
defining its magnetic field associated with the spin and orbital motion. When such minuscule …

Prediction and observation of an antiferromagnetic topological insulator

MM Otrokov, II Klimovskikh, H Bentmann, D Estyunin… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Magnetic topological insulators are narrow-gap semiconductor materials that combine non-
trivial band topology and magnetic order. Unlike their nonmagnetic counterparts, magnetic …

Experimental realization of an intrinsic magnetic topological insulator

Y Gong, J Guo, J Li, K Zhu, M Liao, X Liu… - Chinese Physics …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
An intrinsic magnetic topological insulator (TI) is a stoichiometric magnetic compound
possessing both inherent magnetic order and topological electronic states. Such a material …

Unique Thickness-Dependent Properties of the van der Waals Interlayer Antiferromagnet Films

MM Otrokov, IP Rusinov, M Blanco-Rey, M Hoffmann… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
Using density functional theory and Monte Carlo calculations, we study the thickness
dependence of the magnetic and electronic properties of a van der Waals interlayer …

Tunable 3D/2D magnetism in the (MnBi2Te4)(Bi2Te3)m topological insulators family

II Klimovskikh, MM Otrokov, D Estyunin… - npj Quantum …, 2020 - nature.com
Feasibility of many emergent phenomena that intrinsic magnetic topological insulators (TIs)
may host depends crucially on our ability to engineer and efficiently tune their electronic and …

Large magnetic gap at the Dirac point in Bi2Te3/MnBi2Te4 heterostructures

EDL Rienks, S Wimmer, J Sánchez-Barriga, O Caha… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Magnetically doped topological insulators enable the quantum anomalous Hall effect
(QAHE), which provides quantized edge states for lossless charge-transport applications …

Chemical Aspects of the Candidate Antiferromagnetic Topological Insulator MnBi2Te4

A Zeugner, F Nietschke, AUB Wolter, S Gaß… - Chemistry of …, 2019 - ACS Publications
High-quality single crystals of MnBi2Te4 are grown for the first time by slow cooling within a
narrow range between the melting points of Bi2Te3 (586° C) and MnBi2Te4 (600° C). Single …

A van der Waals antiferromagnetic topological insulator with weak interlayer magnetic coupling

C Hu, KN Gordon, P Liu, J Liu, X Zhou, P Hao… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Magnetic topological insulators (TI) provide an important material platform to explore
quantum phenomena such as quantized anomalous Hall effect and Majorana modes, etc …