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层依赖的反铁磁 Chern 和轴子绝缘态在 UOTe 中

Layer-dependent antiferromagnetic Chern and axion insulating states in UOTe

Howard University(霍华德大学);S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences(S.N. Bose基础科学国家中心);Harvard University(哈佛大学);Washington University in St. Louis(圣路易斯华盛顿大学);The University of Texas at Austin(德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校);University of Michigan(密歇根大学);Northeastern University(东北大学)

Sougata Mardanya, Barun Ghosh, Mengke Liu, Christopher Broyles, Junyeong Ahn, Kai Sun, Jennifer E. Hoffman, Sheng Ran, Arun Bansil, Su-Yang Xu, Sugata Chowdhury

AI总结:

UOTe材料通过层依赖拓扑相变实现反铁磁Chern绝缘体和轴子绝缘体,为拓扑量子态研究提供新平台。

摘要:

磁性拓扑绝缘体因其无耗散边缘态而受到广泛关注,这些边缘态有望推动高效电子传输的发展。然而,磁性拓扑绝缘体状态通常出现在铁磁体(FMs)中,而铁磁体的磁序温度较低且存在杂散磁场。识别出具有量子反常霍尔效应(QAHE)且具有相对较高奈尔温度的反铁磁拓扑绝缘体一直是长期挑战。本文聚焦于最近发现的范德华(vdW)反铁磁体(AFM)UOTe,它不仅具有较高的奈尔温度(约150K),还表现出有趣的康登相互作用和拓扑特性。基于从头计算的系统分析,我们预测双层UOTe薄膜是一种理想的二维反铁磁Chern绝缘体,其中霍尔电导被量子化且具有完全补偿的自旋磁化。通过施加平面应变或电场,我们展示了如何操控U-5f电子的它性以触发非平凡(C = 1)和平凡(C = 0)相之间的转变。有趣的是,三层层UOTe薄膜具有零电荷电导但具有量子化的自旋霍尔电导率(SHC)和有限的磁电耦合,表明存在轴子绝缘体状态。UOTe独特的磁结构支持了可调的拓扑性,在奇数层数的薄膜中是轴子状绝缘体,而偶数层数的薄膜是Chern绝缘体,而体材料是狄拉克半金属。我们的研究提供了一个新的内在反铁磁材料平台,用于实现相关拓扑相,为下一代自旋电子学应用和基础科学研究提供可能。

英文摘要:

Magnetic topological insulators have received significant interest due to their dissipationless edge states, which promise advances in energy-efficient electronic transport. However, the magnetic topological insulator state has typically been found in ferromagnets (FMs) that suffer from low magnetic ordering temperatures and stray fields. Identifying an antiferromagnetic topological insulator that exhibits the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) with a relatively high Néel temperature has been a longstanding challenge. Here, we focus on the recently discovered van der Waals (vdW) antiferromagnet (AFM) UOTe, which not only features a high Néel temperature (\(\sim\)150K) but also exhibits intriguing Kondo interaction and topological characteristics. Our systematic analysis of the layer-dependent topological phases based on \textit{ab} initio computations predicts the two-layer UOTe film to be an ideal 2D AFM Chern insulator in which the Hall conductivity is quantized with a fully compensated spin magnetization. By applying an in-plane strain or electric field, we show how the itinerancy of U-5f electrons can be manipulated to trigger a transition between the nontrivial ($C = 1$) and trivial ($C = 0$) phases. Interestingly, the 3-layer UOTe film is found to have zero charge conductance but it hosts a quantized spin Hall conductivity (SHC) with finite magneto-electric coupling, suggesting the presence of an axion insulator-like state. The unique magnetic structure of UOTe supports a layer-tunable topology in which films with an odd number of layers are axion-like insulators, while films with an even number of layers are Chern insulators, and the bulk material is a Dirac semimetal. Our study offers a new intrinsic AFM materials platform for realizing correlated topological phases for next-generation spintronics applications and fundamental science studies.

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