DOI

  • T. Hirahara
  • M. M. Otrokov
  • T. Sasaki
  • K. Sumida
  • Y. Tomohiro
  • S. Kusaka
  • Y. Okuyama
  • S. Ichinokura
  • M. Kobayashi
  • Y. Takeda
  • K. Amemiya
  • T. Shirasawa
  • S. Ideta
  • K. Miyamoto
  • K. Tanaka
  • S. Kuroda
  • T. Okuda
  • K. Hono
  • S. V. Eremeev
  • E. V. Chulkov
Materials that possess nontrivial topology and magnetism is known to exhibit exotic quantum phenomena such as the quantum anomalous Hall effect. Here, we fabricate a novel magnetic topological heterostructure Mn4Bi2Te7/Bi2Te3 where multiple magnetic layers are inserted into the topmost quintuple layer of the original topological insulator Bi2Te3. A massive Dirac cone (DC) with a gap of 40–75 meV at 16 K is observed. By tracing the temperature evolution, this gap is shown to gradually decrease with increasing temperature and a blunt transition from a massive to a massless DC occurs around 200–250 K. Structural analysis shows that the samples also contain MnBi2Te4/Bi2Te3. Magnetic measurements show that there are two distinct Mn components in the system that corresponds to the two heterostructures; MnBi2Te4/Bi2Te3 is paramagnetic at 6 K while Mn4Bi2Te7/Bi2Te3 is ferromagnetic with a negative hysteresis (critical temperature ~20 K). This novel heterostructure is potentially important for future device applications.
Язык оригиналаанглийский
Номер статьи4821
ЖурналNature Communications
Том11
Номер выпуска1
DOI
СостояниеОпубликовано - 1 дек 2020

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