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磁拓扑绝缘体MnBi2Te4中的大的巡回电子交换耦合

Large Itinerant Electron Exchange Coupling in the Magnetic Topological Insulator MnBi2Te4

Hari Padmanabhan, Vladimir A. Stoica, Peter Kim, Maxwell Poore, Tiannan Yang, Xiaozhe Shen, Alexander H. Reid, Ming-Fu Lin, Suji Park, Jie Yang, Huaiyu Wang, Na… 展开作者

Hari Padmanabhan, Vladimir A. Stoica, Peter Kim, Maxwell Poore, Tiannan Yang, Xiaozhe Shen, Alexander H. Reid, Ming-Fu Lin, Suji Park, Jie Yang, Huaiyu Wang, Nathan Z. Koocher, Danilo Puggioni, Lujin Min, Seng-Huat Lee, Zhiqiang Mao, James M. Rondinelli, Aaron M. Lindenberg, Long-Qing Chen, Xijie Wang, Richard D. Averitt, John W. Freeland, Venkatraman Gopalan

摘要:

拓扑材料中的磁性产生了表现出量子化输运现象的相,在自旋电子学和量子信息中有应用。这种相的出现依赖于局域自旋和包含拓扑能带的巡回态之间的强相互作用,以及随后交换能隙的形成。然而,这种相互作用从未在任何内禀磁性拓扑材料中测量过。使用多峰的方法,这种交换相互作用的测量MnBi 2 Te 4,第一个实现的内禀磁性拓扑绝缘体。询问非平衡自旋动力学,巡回乐队被发现表现出强烈的交换耦合本地化锰自旋。动量分辨的超快电子散射和磁光测量表明,巡游自旋通过电子-声子散射在皮秒时间尺度上的无序。局部Mn自旋,探测共振X射线散射,无序同时与巡回自旋,尽管从初始激发大力去耦。使用原子模拟对结果进行建模,估计定域自旋和巡回自旋之间的交换耦合比超交换相互作用大100倍以上。这意味着在拓扑表面态中应该发生>25 meV的交换能隙。通过直接量化本地巡回交换耦合,这项工作验证了材料的设计策略,利用本地化磁秩序创建和操纵磁拓扑相位,从静态到超快的时间尺度。

英文摘要:

Magnetism in topological materials creates phases exhibiting quantized transport phenomena with applications in spintronics and quantum information. The emergence of such phases relies on strong interaction between localized spins and itinerant states comprising the topological bands, and the subsequent formation of an exchange gap. However, this interaction has never been measured in any intrinsic magnetic topological material. Using a multimodal approach, this exchange interaction is measured in MnBi2Te4, the first realized intrinsic magnetic topological insulator. Interrogating nonequilibrium spin dynamics, itinerant bands are found to exhibit a strong exchange coupling to localized Mn spins. Momentum-resolved ultrafast electron scattering and magneto-optic measurements reveal that itinerant spins disorder via electron-phonon scattering at picosecond timescales. Localized Mn spins, probed by resonant X-ray scattering, disorder concurrently with itinerant spins, despite being energetically decoupled from the initial excitation. Modeling the results using atomistic simulations, the exchange coupling between localized and itinerant spins is estimated to be >100 times larger than superexchange interactions. This implies an exchange gap of >25 meV should occur in the topological surface states. By directly quantifying local-itinerant exchange coupling, this work validates the materials-by-design strategy of utilizing localized magnetic order to create and manipulate magnetic topological phases, from static to ultrafast timescales.

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