Inducing
magnetism into topological insulators is intriguing for
utilizing exotic phenomena such as the quantum anomalous Hall effect
(QAHE) for technological applications. While most studies have focused
on doping magnetic impurities to open a gap at the surface-state Dirac
point, many undesirable effects have been reported to appear in some
cases that makes it difficult to determine whether the gap opening
is due to the time-reversal symmetry breaking or not. Furthermore,
the realization of the QAHE has been limited to low temperatures.
Here we have succeeded in generating a massive Dirac cone in a MnBi2Se4/Bi2Se3 heterostructure,
which was fabricated by self-assembling a MnBi2Se4 layer on top of the Bi2Se3 surface as a result
of the codeposition of Mn and Se. Our experimental results, supported
by relativistic ab initio calculations, demonstrate
that the fabricated MnBi2Se4/Bi2Se3 heterostructure shows ferromagnetism up to room temperature
and a clear Dirac cone gap opening of ∼100 meV without any
other significant changes in the rest of the band structure. It can
be considered as a result of the direct interaction of the surface
Dirac cone and the magnetic layer rather than a magnetic proximity
effect. This spontaneously formed self-assembled heterostructure with
a massive Dirac spectrum, characterized by a nontrivial Chern number C = −1, has a potential to realize the QAHE at significantly
higher temperatures than reported up to now and can serve as a platform
for developing future “topotronics” devices.
JapanSnTe (111) films, topological crystalline insulators, weak antilocalization, phase coherence
length, Dirac valleysMagneto-transport properties of (111)-oriented single-crystal thin films of SnTe were investigated. SnTe (111) thin films were epitaxially grown on a BaF 2 substrate by molecular beam epitaxy. By optimizing the growth conditions and the thickness of the films, the bulk carrier density could be reduced, making it possible to detect the surface transport. In the magneto-conductance (MC) measurement, a cusp-like feature around zero magnetic field was observed, which is attributed to the weak-antilocalization effect of the transport in the Corresponding Author
Ca-intercalation has enabled superconductivity in graphene on SiC. However, the atomic and electronic structures that are critical for superconductivity are still under discussion. We find an essential role of the interface between monolayer graphene and the SiC substrate for superconductivity. In the Ca-intercalation process, at the interface a carbon layer terminating SiC changes to graphene by Ca-termination of SiC (monolayer graphene becomes a bilayer), inducing more electrons than a free-standing model. Then, Ca is intercalated in between the graphene layers, which shows superconductivity with the updated critical temperature (T C ) of up to 5.7 K. In addition, the relation between T C and the normal-state conductivity is unusual, "dome-shaped". These findings are beyond the simple C 6 CaC 6 model in which s-wave BCS superconductivity is theoretically predicted. This work proposes a general picture of the intercalation-induced superconductivity in graphene on SiC and indicates the potential for superconductivity induced by other intercalants.
We grew single-crystal thin films of a topological crystalline insulator (TCI) SnTe with a smooth surface at the atomic scale by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). In the magnetoresistance (MR) measurement, we observed both positive and negative components near zero magnetic field at lowest temperatures of 2 -3 K, while we observed only a negative MR at elevated temperatures of 6 -10 K. The positive MR is attributed to the weak antilocalization (WAL) in the transport through the topological surface state (SS), demonstrating π berry phase which is essential to the topological SS, while the negative MR to the weak localization (WL) in the transport through the bulk state (two-dimensional bulk subbbands). The absolute value of the prefactor α deduced from the fitting of the observed positive MR to the Hikami-Larkin-Nagaoka equation was much smaller than expected from the number of transport channel of the SS, suggesting the coupling of the SS to the bulk state.
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