Pressure-tunable phase transitions in atomically thin Chern insulator MnBi$_2$Te$_4$
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| author | Marffy, Albin Tovari, Endre Liu, Yu-Fei Gao, Anyuan Huang, Tianye Oroszlany, Laszlo Watanabe, Kenji Taniguchi, Takashi Xu, Su-Yang Makk, Peter Csonka, Szabolcs |
| author_facet | Marffy, Albin Tovari, Endre Liu, Yu-Fei Gao, Anyuan Huang, Tianye Oroszlany, Laszlo Watanabe, Kenji Taniguchi, Takashi Xu, Su-Yang Makk, Peter Csonka, Szabolcs |
| contents | Topological insulators lacking time-reversal symmetry can exhibit the quantum anomalous Hall effect. Odd-layer thick MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ is a promising platform due to its intrinsic magnetic nature, however, quantization is rarely observed in it. Our magnetoresistance measurements in the anti-ferromagnetic phase indicate, instead of a quantum anomalous Hall insulator, the presence of a trivial insulator state likely due to disorder, while at high magnetic field a Chern insulator state appears. By applying hydrostatic pressure we are able to tune the magnetic interactions and the characteristic energy scales in the phase diagram. The trivial band gap is reduced, suggesting the role of disorder decreases with the compression of the layers. |
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| spellingShingle | Pressure-tunable phase transitions in atomically thin Chern insulator MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ Marffy, Albin Tovari, Endre Liu, Yu-Fei Gao, Anyuan Huang, Tianye Oroszlany, Laszlo Watanabe, Kenji Taniguchi, Takashi Xu, Su-Yang Makk, Peter Csonka, Szabolcs Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Topological insulators lacking time-reversal symmetry can exhibit the quantum anomalous Hall effect. Odd-layer thick MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ is a promising platform due to its intrinsic magnetic nature, however, quantization is rarely observed in it. Our magnetoresistance measurements in the anti-ferromagnetic phase indicate, instead of a quantum anomalous Hall insulator, the presence of a trivial insulator state likely due to disorder, while at high magnetic field a Chern insulator state appears. By applying hydrostatic pressure we are able to tune the magnetic interactions and the characteristic energy scales in the phase diagram. The trivial band gap is reduced, suggesting the role of disorder decreases with the compression of the layers. |
| title | Pressure-tunable phase transitions in atomically thin Chern insulator MnBi$_2$Te$_4$ |
| topic | Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17449 |