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  • Title: Experimental Demonstration of a Magnetically Induced Warping Transition in a Topological Insulator Mediated by Rare-Earth Surface Dopants.
    Author: Muñiz Cano B, Ferreiros Y, Pantaleón PA, Dai J, Tallarida M, Figueroa AI, Marinova V, García-Díez K, Mugarza A, Valenzuela SO, Miranda R, Camarero J, Guinea F, Silva-Guillén JA, Valbuena MA.
    Journal: Nano Lett; 2023 Jul 12; 23(13):6249-6258. PubMed ID: 37156508.
    Abstract:
    Magnetic topological insulators constitute a novel class of materials whose topological surface states (TSSs) coexist with long-range ferromagnetic order, eventually breaking time-reversal symmetry. The subsequent bandgap opening is predicted to co-occur with a distortion of the TSS warped shape from hexagonal to trigonal. We demonstrate such a transition by means of angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy on the magnetically rare-earth (Er and Dy) surface-doped topological insulator Bi2Se2Te. Signatures of the gap opening are also observed. Moreover, increasing the dopant coverage results in a tunable p-type doping of the TSS, thereby allowing for a gradual tuning of the Fermi level toward the magnetically induced bandgap. A theoretical model where a magnetic Zeeman out-of-plane term is introduced in the Hamiltonian governing the TSS rationalizes these experimental results. Our findings offer new strategies to control magnetic interactions with TSSs and open up viable routes for the realization of the quantum anomalous Hall effect.
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