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

Emergent quantum phenomena such as quantized anomalous Hall effect may be realized in magnetic topological materials. Here, Hu et al. discovered an intrinsic natural heterostructural Z2 antiferromagnetic topological insulator MnBi4Te7 with low out-of-plane saturation fields.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chaowei Hu, Kyle N. Gordon, Pengfei Liu, Jinyu Liu, Xiaoqing Zhou, Peipei Hao, Dushyant Narayan, Eve Emmanouilidou, Hongyi Sun, Yuntian Liu, Harlan Brawer, Arthur P. Ramirez, Lei Ding, Huibo Cao, Qihang Liu, Dan Dessau, Ni Ni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13814-x