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arXiv 1404.0973cond-mat.mtrl-sci
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磁性岩盐界面上的Chern绝缘体

Chern insulator at a magnetic rocksalt interface

Kevin F. Garrity, David Vanderbilt

摘要:

最近,人们在二维陈氏绝缘体的实验实现方面做了大量的工作,显示量子反常霍尔效应的系统。然而,现有的方法,如基于拓扑绝缘体薄膜的磁性掺杂的方法,导致小的带隙,限制了低温的效果。我们使用第一性原理计算证明了拓扑平凡的铁磁绝缘体EuO和GdN的薄膜之间的界面可以导致带反转和非零的陈数。这两种材料都是化学计量的,并且界面是非极性和晶格匹配的,这应该允许该界面在实验上是可实现的。我们发现,能带结构可以通过层厚度或外延应变进行调整,并可以导致陈绝缘体的间隙超过0.1 eV。

英文摘要:

Considerable efforts have recently been devoted to the experimental realization of a two-dimensional Chern insulator, i.e., a system displaying a quantum anomalous Hall effect. However, existing approaches such as those based on magnetic doping of topological-insulator thin films have resulted in small band gaps, restricting the effect to low temperatures. We use first-principles calculations to demonstrate that an interface between thin films of the topologically trivial ferromagnetic insulators EuO and GdN can result in a band inversion and a non-zero Chern number. Both materials are stoichiometric and the interface is non-polar and lattice-matched, which should allow this interface to be achievable experimentally. We show that the band structure can be tuned by layer thickness or epitaxial strain, and can result in Chern insulators with gaps of over 0.1 eV.

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