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 …

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 …

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 …

Quantum-metric-induced nonlinear transport in a topological antiferromagnet

N Wang, D Kaplan, Z Zhang, T Holder, N Cao, A Wang… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The Berry curvature and quantum metric are the imaginary part and real part, respectively, of
the quantum geometric tensor, which characterizes the topology of quantum states. The …

Quantum metric nonlinear Hall effect in a topological antiferromagnetic heterostructure

A Gao, YF Liu, JX Qiu, B Ghosh, T V. Trevisan, Y Onishi… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Quantum geometry in condensed-matter physics has two components: the real part quantum
metric and the imaginary part Berry curvature. Whereas the effects of Berry curvature have …

Native point defects and their implications for the Dirac point gap at MnBi2Te4(0001)

M Garnica, MM Otrokov, PC Aguilar… - npj Quantum …, 2022 - nature.com
We study the surface crystalline and electronic structures of the antiferromagnetic
topological insulator MnBi2Te4 using scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy (STM/S) …

Axion optical induction of antiferromagnetic order

JX Qiu, C Tzschaschel, J Ahn, A Gao, H Li, XY Zhang… - Nature materials, 2023 - nature.com
Using circularly polarized light to control quantum matter is a highly intriguing topic in
physics, chemistry and biology. Previous studies have demonstrated helicity-dependent …

Sample-dependent Dirac-point gap in and its response to applied surface charge: A combined photoemission and ab initio study

AM Shikin, DA Estyunin, NL Zaitsev, D Glazkova… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Recently discovered intrinsic antiferromagnetic topological insulator Mn Bi 2 Te 4 presents
an exciting platform for realization of the quantum anomalous Hall effect and a number of …

Mn‐Rich MnSb2Te4: A Topological Insulator with Magnetic Gap Closing at High Curie Temperatures of 45–50 K

S Wimmer, J Sánchez‐Barriga, P Küppers… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Ferromagnetic topological insulators exhibit the quantum anomalous Hall effect, which is
potentially useful for high‐precision metrology, edge channel spintronics, and topological …

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 …